[Indlinux-cvs] Second Call for Papers: NCOSS-2009 C-DAC Mumbai (India), 25-26 May 2009

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 Dear Colleagues,

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You are still in time to submit papers to NCOSS-2009 in order to share your
work in the tracks mentioned in the CFP below. *PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
15 February 2009*
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 *NCOSS-09: National Conference on Open Source Software*
 *May 25th - 26th, 2009, Mumbai, India*


Organized by


*C-DAC, Mumbai*





Supported by


*IEEE Computer Society, Mumbai and Chennai chapters*


*Computer Society of India, Div II on Software & SIG-OSS*







** * *   CALL FOR PAPERS   * * **






NCOSS - 2009 is being conceived of as a forum to bring together the various
groups working on developing Open Source Applications catering to specific
domains in the ICT world, including education, health, accessibility,
localisation, e-commerce, disaster management, expert systems, machine
learning, etc. A number of high quality software solutions are available in
many of these areas, for example, SugarCRM, Koha, Drupal, Moodle, Sahana,
CollabCAD, etc. Work on these systems require a combination of domain
knowledge and development expertise. Much of the public awareness in open
source is focussed on desktop, operating system and general productivity
tools. With this background, NCOSS-09 has chosen to focus on the layer above
this, bringing together groups working on various application domains.



The conference will present experiences in deploying FOSS applications,
comparative studies among competing software solutions, efforts in adapting
and localising FOSS applications, development of new applications, etc. The
conference will consist of the following:


   - Invited talks by experts from India and abroad

   - Presentation of contributed papers selected based on refereeing by a
   panel of referees

   - Exhibition by industry and academia

   - Pre conference Tutorials (on May 24th )

   - Panel discussion



 Papers are invited on the topics listed below. All papers will be subject
to external refereeing and acceptance will be subject to referee evaluation.
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. We also
invite proposals for tutorials.

**** TOPICS ****


*Other application areas may also be considered.*

  Accessibility


 Machine Learning and Data Mining


  Indian Language Computing


 e-Health


  Localisation


 Knowledge Management


  e-Learning


 Collaboration Technologies


  Information Extraction and Retrieval


 Content Management


  Disaster Management


 e-Commerce


  e-Governance








**** INSTRUCTIONS ****



   - Papers must report original work carried out by the authors. The work
   can include enhancing existing Open Source applications for specific
   requirements, development of new solutions and comparative analysis of
   competing solutions. Direct survey or overview papers are not acceptable.

   - Length should not exceed 10 pages of A4 size in length (approx. 5000
   words) including figures, etc.

   - Papers should be in English.

   - An abstract of about 100-200 words and the area(s) under which the
   paper can be categorized, must be included with the paper.



Papers exceeding the specified length are subject to rejection without
review. Since reviewing will be blind, the author names and affiliations
along with the main area of the paper should be given only on a separate
cover sheet. Papers should be in one of the following formats: PDF, RTF or
ODT.

Papers may be submitted via the web at the URL http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in. A
template paper is also made available at the URL for formatting reference.
Those who are unable to make electronic submissions may send four copies of
the paper to the address listed below.

**** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ****


  Ramakrishnan S., C-DAC, Pune (chair)


 Chakravarti A. K, DIT, Delhi


  Zia Saquib, C-DAC, Mumbai


 Sivakumar G, IIT, Mumbai


  Sasikumar M, C-DAC, Mumbai


 Venkatesh Hariharan, RedHat, Mumbai


  Mohan H R, The Hindu, Chennai


 Rishab Aiyer Ghosh,UNU-MERIT, Netherlands


  Krishnan C N, AU-KBC, Chennai


 Gora Mohanty, Sarai, Delhi


  Rajagopal M R, C-DAC, Chennai


 Dravida Seetharam, IBM, Bangalore


  G Nagarjuna, HBCSE, Mumbai, India











** * *   IMPORTANT DATES   * * **





  Submission of papers


 February 15, 2009


  Acceptance intimation


 March 15, 2009


  Camera ready due


 April 15, 2009


  Tutorial Proposals due


 March 15, 2009


  Tutorial Acceptance intimation


 April 15, 2009







** * *   CONTACT DETAILS   * * * *






*Address :*

NCOSS Conference Secretariat

CDAC-Mumbai (formerly NCST), Rain Tree Marg, Sector-7,

Near Bharti Vidyapeeth, Opp. Kharghar Railway Station,

CBD Belapur,

Navi Mumbai - 400614

Maharashtra, India



*E-mail*: nc...@cd...

*Web*: http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in

*Ph*.: +91 - 22 - 27565303
*Fax*: +91 - 22 - 27560004 (on request)





With warm regards,

*NCOSS team*