OBJECTIVE

NCIT-97 aims at bringing academics, engineers and scientists together for close exchange of views on state-of-art technologies of multifarious and widely growing areas of computer applications. Not only it will serve as an important forum for participation of technical community, also it will cater to development of general awareness on Information Technology. The conference will have invited talks,contributed oral paper presentations, panel discussions.

TOPICS

Includes but not limited to:

1. Database Management Systems
2. Internet Computing
3. S/W Engineering
4. Artificial Intelligence
5. High-speed Computing

PANEL DISCUSSION

IT and its Perspective
Computer Literacy and Computer Education

CALL FOR PAPER

Authors are requested to submit Five copies of Papers double spaced written English, of up to 12 pages including figures,tables and references etc. The format should be A4 in a Roman Font,12 Font size. In addition, one sheet must be attached including :Titles of the paper,authors' Name, a list of five keywords,the corresponding author information(name,postal and email address,Phone&Fax number).

The interested authors are requested to submit extended abstracts to PROGRAM CHAIR with detail contact address. (If they prefer, they may send the abstracts to chitta@cs.utep.edu.) An abstract should clearly identify author's contributions and its length should not be more than 1500 words.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of Abstracts: Nov 30 1997

Acceptance Notification: Dec 10 1997

Camera Ready Copy & Electronic Version: Dec 20 1997

Venue: UTKAL UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM,BHUBANESWAR DATE : DEC 21-23, 1997

PROGRAM CHAIR

Prof (Dr.) P.K.Meher HOD, Dept of Comp.Sci Vani Vihar,

BHUBANESWAR

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

1. Dr H. K. Mohanty - University of Hyderabad

2. Dr Chitta Baral - University of Texas at El Paso, USA

3. Dr R N Mohapatra - Texas A & M University, USA

4. Dr A K Pujari - University of Hyderabad

5. Dr A K Pujari - Executive Director OCAC

6. Dr M Nayak - OUAT,Bhubaneswar

7. Mr J R Nanda - NIC,Bhubaneswar

8. Mr M R Patro - Berhampur University,Berhampur

9. Mr S K Pradhan - Berhampur University,Berhampur

10. Ms Suchitra Pattanaik - Tekon Services,Bhubaneswar

LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE

1. Dr(Mrs) S Mohanty - Dept of Comp Sc,Utkal University

2. Mr P K Behera - -do-

3. Mr B K Ransingh - -do-

4. Mr D Nayak - -do-

5. Mr S Das - -do-

6. Mr S K Naik - -do-

7. Mr B B Mishra - IMFA,Bhubaneswar

8. Mr A K Rath - OEC,Bhubaneswar

REGISTRATION

Authors presenting papers and participants in general are re- quired to register for the conference on payment of the requisite registration fees.

GENERAL Rs. 400/-

STUDENT Rs. 200/-

COMPANY SPONSORED Rs.1000/-

Name:

Designation:

Institution:

Address :

Telephone-----------------------Fax------------------------Email----------------------------

Accommodation desired: YES/NO

Registration fee should be paid only by demand draft in favour of

"NOT DECIDED NOW",Bhubaneswar