NCOSS-09: National Conference on Open Source Software being organized by C-DAC, Mumbai

NCOSS-09: National Conference on Open Source Software

May 25^th - 26^th, 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 24^th )

• 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

(This list is partial)

* * * 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: ncoss@cdacmumbai.in

Web: http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in

Ph.: +91 - 22 - 27565303

Fax: +91 - 22 - 27560004 (on request)