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The Conference on Information Technology ( CIT ) provides a high quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly changing field. The first conference CIT'98 was held in Bhubaneswar, December 21-23, 1998 with active participations of academia as well IT industries. The details of this conference may be found in www.oits.org/~cit98. For CIT'99 authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished work on all aspects of InformationTechnology. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
 

There will be several special sessions in some focussed areas. Interested organizers are requested to submit a 1-2 page proposal to the program chairs by April 20, 1999.

Paper Submissions

Authors are requested to submit four (4) copies of the full manuscript (including abstract, keywords, email address)  and to either of the following program chairs.
The size of the submissions are limited to 6000 words and people with access to the Internet must submit it as 6 pages in one of the formats in the site www.aaai.org/Publications/Templates/macros-link.html.

Program Chairs:

Chitta Baral
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX 79968, USA.
chitta@cs.utep.edu
Phone/Fax: 915-747-6952/5030

Hrushikesha Mohanty

Department of Computer & Information Sciences
University of Hyderabad, Central University P.O.
Hyderabad 500 046 India
hmcs@uohyd.ernet.in
Fax: 91-40-3010 120 & 3010 145.

Authors are recommended to submit papers electronically, but hard copy submission is acceptable.

Submission Deadline: June 30, 1999.
Author Notification: September 9, 1999.
Camera-ready copies: October 9, 1999.

Conference proceedings will be published and available before the conference.
For more information about the conference please write to one of the program chairs.

Tutorials

CIT '98 organized tutorials on different areas like mobile data and transaction management, electronic data security, designing applications with objects, Internet protocol (version 6), web warehouse design, etc. Keeping the importance of such tutorials in view, CIT'99  invites proposals from researchers and practitioners to hold tutorials at different levels (beginners, advanced, etc.) in emerging areas of IT.

Tutorial proposal
submission deadline is June 20, 1999.
Acceptance notification September 9, 1999
Camera ready copy       October 9, 1999.
 

General Chairs

L. N. Bhuyan, Texas A & M University, USA
bhuyan@cs.tamu.edu

G. S. Mishra, OSEDC, Bhubaneswar, India
gsmishra@hotmail.com

Vice-General Chair

Rabi N. Mahapatra, Texas A & M University
rabi@cs.tamu.edu

Program Committee (with some area chairs)

Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hamid Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA
Jay N. Bhuyan, Tuskegee University, Alabama, USA
   (Genetic Algorithms)
P.K. Biswas, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Sharat Chandran, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
   (Graphics and Vision)
Pranay Chaudhuri, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Chitta R. Das, Penn State University, USA
Dipankar Dasgupta, University of Memphis, USA
D. Dashsharma, Hewlett Packard, USA
Chris George UNU/IIST, Macau
Gerard Huet, INRIA, France
S. Sitharama Iyengar, LSU, Battonrouge, USA
Vladik Kreinovich, University of Texas at El Paso, USA
   (Interval Computations & Soft Computing)
Jorge Lobo, Lucent Technology and Univ of Illinois at Chicago
   (Knowledge Representation)
Prasant Mahapatra, Iowa State University, USA
   (Parallel and distributed Computing)
D. Mitra, Jacksun State University, USA
Ashwini Nanda, IBM T. J. Watson Laboratory, NY, USA
Abhaya Nayak, Macquarie University, Australia
Hung Nguyen, New Mexico State University, USA
K. Naik  Univ. of Aizu, Japan
   (Networking)
L. M. Patnaik, IISc, Bangalore
Srikanta Pattnaik, UCE Burla, India
Arun K. Pujari, University of Hyderabad, India
   (Data Warehousing and Data mining)
J. C. Patra, REC Rourkela, India
D. Saha, Jadavpur University, India
Ashok Samal, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
Dheeraj Sanghi, IIT Kanpur, India
N. L. Sarada, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
   (Software Engineering)
Uttam Sarkar, IIM Calcutta
   (E-commerce)
M. R. Satapathy, IIT Guahati, India
Onn M. Shehory, Carnegie Mellon, USA
   (Multi-agent systems)
Cheickna Sylla, NJIT, USA
   (Strategic Impact of Information Technology)
Niranjan Tripathy, Fujitsu Microelectronics, USA
K. Vidyasankar, Univ. of NewFoundland, Canada
 

Tutorial Chairs

Durga Mishra , NJIT, USA
dmisra@megahertz.njit.edu

Ratan K. Ghosh, IIT Kanpur, India
rkg@cse.iitk.ac.in

Organization Chairs

Sanghamitra Mohanty, Utkal University, India
m_sanghamitra@hotmail.com

Manas Patnaik, STPI, Bhubaneswar
manas@stpbh.soft.net

CITEXPO99

The EXPO99 is being organized to bring the industrial products together during CIT99. Interested industries are invited to participate in CITEXPO99 and contact the Exhibition Chairs for further details.

Exhibition Chairs

P. C. Sahu, DoT, Bhubaneswar
p_sahu@hotmail.com

Somdutt Behura
Somdutt.Behura@Airliquide.com

About Bhubaneswar:  http://www.orissaindia.com

The state of Orissa, of which Bhubaneswar is the capital, is located in the eastern part of India between Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. There are convenient air and surface transportation to Bhubaneswar. The area offers a number of fascinating activities for visitors: many historic shrines built by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains; a range of handicrafts and handwoven textiles, and opportunities for enjoying the distinctive art forms of this region. The areas around Bhubaneswar have several major attractions.
The magnificent Sun Temple of Konark (known to generations of sailors as Black Pagoda) is internationally renowned. Puri and Konark -- both within 30 miles of Bhubaneswar-- have beautiful beaches, and the Chilika Lake (about 60 miles from Bhubaneswar), the largest brackish water inland lake in Asia, abounds with migratory birds and many varieties of fish. Close to abounds with migratory birds and many varieties of fish. Close to Bhubaneswar is the Chandaka Forest, a sanctuary for wild elephants, and Nandankanan Zoological Park, a botanical garden that includes the largest  lion and tiger safari in India. The Udayagiri and Khandagiri hills at the outskirt of the city have a network of man-made caves dating from the first century B.C. Presently, Bhubaneswar offers a great promise to IT industries enthused by several liberalisation policies of local government. Some nationaly renowned IT industries have started operating from the city. It is the fastest growing city in the eastern coast of India.