Subject: Call for Papers and Participation in ADCOM-99

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 21:33:59 +0530

Dear Friend,

ADCOM-99, the International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications
is being held at University of
Roorkee Campus, Roorkee from 20-22 Dec '99.

ADCOM-99 is being organized by Advanced Computing and Communications Society
(ACS), India, along with University of
Roorkee. It is co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, USA and is supported by
C-DAC, India and Hughes Software
Systems.

Attached along with this mail is the Call For Papers and Participation Document
along with other relevant details.
We encourage you to actively participate in this prestigious Conference, which
has become a premier forum of technical
interaction over the years. And this just might be the last technical feast of
this millennium!!

The panoramic town of Roorkee is located north of New Delhi, at the foothills of
 the Himalayas, near to the holy cities of
Haridwar, Rishikesh and several famous hill-stations.

Please contact me or Dr. Ravi Mittal ([email-masked]) regarding any queries
 you might have.

Cheers !
Harish Tejwani
Member, Organizing Committee ADCOM-99
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
    ADCOM-99

 7th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications
   December 20-22, 1999
  ROORKEE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS, ROORKEE, INDIA

  http://www.cse.psu.edu/adcom99

ORGANSIED BY
Advanced Computing and Communications Society (ACS), India.
Roorkee University

CO-SPONSORED BY
IEEE Computer Society, USA

WITH SUPPORT FROM

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India
Hughes Software Systems, India

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The goal of the annual conference of ACS is to provide a forum to industry
professionals, researchers and Government policy planners to share ideas, report
findings, discuss products and define future directions. Over the past six years
this conference has become one of the premium forums for the growing technical
community in India. We commit to build on this success and increase the
influence of ADCOM.

The conference will have sessions with contributed papers, invited talks,
practical experience reports, tutorial, panels, and vendor exhibitions.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Wireless and Personal Communications
* High Speed Networks
* Mobile Computing
* Parallel, Distributed and Networked Computing
* Advanced Computer Architecture
* Dependable and Secure Computing
* Real Time Computing
* Multi-media Systems
* High Performance Graphics, Visualization and Virtual Reality
* Parallel and Distributed Databases and Data Warehousing
* Web-based Computing
* Applications of Advanced Computing in Scientific and Engineering Computations
* Business Computing, Web and Governance

Authors are requested to submit five copies of previously unpublished
papers/experience reports to Program Chairs before May 30, 1999. The length is
limited to 5000 words (20 double spaced pages). Authors will be notified of
acceptance by July 30, 1999. Camera ready papers would be required by September
15, 1999.

TUTORIALS

Half day/full day tutorials are proposed to be held on the first day of the
conference. Tutorial proposals on topics of interest to advanced computing and
Communications are welcome. Please submit your proposals to the Tutorial Chairs
by June 30, 1999.

SPECIAL SESSIONS

Proposals for organizing special sessions in some particular topics consisting
of invite talks from eminent persons in the field are also welcome.
Persons/industries interested in organizing such sessions are requested to
contact the Program Chairs before June 30, 1999.

EXHIBITION

The conference provides opportunity to vendors of Computing and Communications
Systems to display their products. In addition, a few sessions on vendor
Presentations are planned. Vendors interested in exhibiting their products are
requested to contact the Organizing Chairs before June 30, 1999.

ADVISORY CHAIR

N.C. Nigam
Vice Chancellor, University of Roorkee

GENERAL CHAIRS

Dharma P. Agrawal
University of Cincinnati
PO Box 210030
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030, USA
Phone: +513-556-4756
Fax: +513-556-7326
Email:[email-masked]

R. K. Arora
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
Pune University Campus, Ganesh Khind
Pune - 411007, India
Phone: +91-20-355393
Fax: +91-20-357551
Email:[email-masked]

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Chita R. Das
232, Ponda Laboratory
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Pennsylvania State University, University park,
PA 16802, USA
Phone: +814-865-0194
Fax: +814-865-3176
Email: [email-masked]

R.C. Joshi
Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering
University of Roorkee, Roorkee, UP
Phone:+91-1332-85701, 85235 (Off), 70040 (H)
Fax: +91-1332-73560
Email:[email-masked]

ORGANIZING CHAIRS

Kumkum Garg
Dept. of Electronics and Computer engineering
University of Roorkee, Roorkee, UP
Phone: +91-1332-85701, 85235
Fax:+91-1332-73560
Email: [email-masked]

Ravi Mittal
Hughes software Systems
Electronics City, Plot 31, Sector 18
Gurgaon 122015
Tel : +91-124-346666 Ext. 2158
Fax: +91-124-343723
Email: [email-masked]

TUTORIAL CHAIRS

P. Mahapatra
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
201, Cover Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa 50011
Phone: (515)-294-3959
Fax: (515)-294-8432
Email: [email-masked]

A. K. Sarje
Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering
University of Roorkee, Roorkee, uP
Phone:+91-1332-65650, 65235
Fax: +91-1332-73560
Email: [email-masked]

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

Rajeev Shorey
IBM Solutions Research Center
Block I, Indian Institute of Technology
Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110016
Email:[email-masked]

Anand Sivasubramaniam
Computer Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-1406
Fax: 814-865-3176
Email: [email-masked]

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Alok Aggarwal (IBM Solutions Research Center)
Dharma P. Agrawal (University of Cincinnati)
Vijay P. Bhatkar (ETH. Inc, Pune)
Laxmi N. Bhuyan (Texas A&M, USA)
V. Chandrasekharan (Pentafour, Madras)
Ajai Chowdhry (HCL Technologies)
Ashok Desai, (Silicon Graphics, India)
Sudhir Dixit (Nokia Telecommunication, USA)
K. N. Gupta (CDOT, India)
Ahsok Jhunjhunwala (IIT Madras)
Michiko Hashimoto (ATM Forum Asia-Pacific Office, Tokyo)
David Kahaner (ATIP Japan)
Kannan Kasturi (Hughes Software Systems, Gurgaon)
S. Sasi Kumar, (NIIT Bangalore)
Rajeev C. Mody (Silicon Automation Systems)
N. R. Narayana Murthy (Infosys Tech)
S. Nagarajan (Philips Software Centre, Bangalore)
Amitava Roy (HCL Technologies, Noida)
D. Raychaudhuri (NEC C&C Research Laboratories)
L. M. Patnaik (IISc Bangalore)
S. Prasad (DRDO, Delhi)
S. K. Sinha (IISc Bangalore)
Arun Somani (IOWA State Univ)
R. Srinivasan (Tata Elxsi)
S. P. Sukhatme(IIT MUmbai)
Vinod Sood (Hughes Software Systems, Gurgaon)
Krishna Tanuku (Lucent Technologies, Bangalore)
Kishor Trivedi (Duke University)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

P. C. P. Bhatt, Kochi University of Technology, Japan
K. K. Biswas (IIT Delhi)
P. K. Chande (GSTI, Indore)
H. M. Gupta (IIT Delhi)
T. V. Geetha (Anna Univ)
Timothy Gonsalves (IIT Madras)
R. K. Ghosh, IIT Kanpur
D.  Janaki Ram (IIT Madras)
Matthew T. Jacob, (IISc Bangalore)
Abhay Karandikar (IIT Mumbai)
S. C. Kothari, Iowa State University, USA
Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, USA
Suresh Kumar (IBM Solutions Research Center, India)
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
G. Manimaran, Iowa State University, USA
S. L. Mehndiratta, IIT Bombay
Deependra Moitra (Lucent Technologies)
Vijay Narayan, Penn State University, USA
S. Nandi (IIT Guwahati)
Hyunmin Park, Myongji University, South Korea
Girish Pathak, GTE, US
P. S. Nagendra Rao (IISc)
V. Ranganathan (PSG, Coimbatore)
P. Raveendran (Univ of Malya)
S. Sanyal, TIFR, Mumbai
Pradeep K. Sinha (CDAC Pune)
Dheeraj Sanghi (IIT Kanpur)
Rajeev Sharma, Penn State University, USA
Harpreet Singh, Wayne State University, USA
Nitin Vaidya. Texas A&M, USA
Vimal Singh (M. N. R. Engg College, Allahabad)
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State, USA

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

P. K. Bansal (TIET Patiala)
K. D. Singh (Univ of Roorkee)
Harish Tejwani (Hughes Software Systems)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission:   May 30, 1999
Proposal for Tutorials:  June 30, 1999
Proposal for Special Sessions:June 30, 1999
Camera Ready Submission: Sept. 30, 1999

REGISTRATION FEES

Regular Participants:     Rs. 3000
Academic Institutes, Govt. R&D Labs: Rs. 2000
Students:      Rs. 600
Foreign participants:    US $120

The corresponding author need to submit the completed submission-form with the
paper.

ABOUT ROORKEE

Roorkee is about 200 Kms from Delhi and about 30 Kms from the Holy City of
Haridwar. Roorkee is on the Delhi-Haridwar-Rishikesh-Dehradun national highway.
Roorkee houses University of Roorkee, one of the oldest and premier engineering
Universities in India. Roorkee is also a center for research and Defence
Establishments. There are many tourist attractions near Roorkee. From Roorkee,
you may visit the holy cities of Haridwar, Rishikesh, Kedarnath, Badrinath, and
many scenic places in Gadhwal and Himalaya Regions.
Hill stations, namely Dehradun and Mussoorie are close to Roorkee.

The weather at Roorkee in the month of December is cold with temperature
ranging from 5 to 15 degree celsius.

ADVANCED COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY

Chair  : Lawrence Jenkins (IISc Bangalore)
Vice Chair : K.M. Mehata (Anna University)
Secretary : P.S. Nagendra Rao (IISc Bangalore)
Jt. Secretary: Ravi Mittal (Hughes Software Systems)
Treasurer : R.C. Hansdah (IISc Bangalore)

ACS is engaged in fostering awareness about recent developments in Computing and
Communications Systems. ACS organizes technical seminars, workshops, and
conferences. For more information, please contact Prof. P.S. Nagendra Rao,
(Secretary ACS), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore - 560012 (Email:[email-masked]) India, or Dr. Ravi
Mittal, (Jt. Secretary ACS), Hughes Software Systems, Plot 31, Sector 18,
Gurgaon 122015, Haryana (Email:[email-masked]), India

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If the paper is accepted:
 I will send the final version before deadline (September 30, 1999);
 I will pay the participation fee and present my paper at ADCOM'99.

Date: ................            Signature: ..........

Note: In case of Electronic Submission of your paper, please mail or Fax this
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