Call for Papers: National Conference on Open Source Software – 2009

Introduction:

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 24th May 2009)

Panel discussion

Topics:

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 development of new solutions, enhancing existing Open Source applications for specific requirements and comparative analysis of competing solutions. Direct survey or overview papers are not acceptable.

The length of the papers should not exceed 10 pages of A4 size (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’s name and affiliations along with the main area of the paper should be given only on a separate cover sheet. 

Papers Format:

PDF, RTF or ODT formats.

How to apply:

Papers may be submitted via the web at the URL http://ncoss.cdacmumbai.in. A template paper will shortly be made available at the URL for formatting reference. 

Key Dates: 

Deadline for Submission of papers: 02/15/09 

NCOSS 2009 Begins: 05/25/09 

NCOSS 2009 Ends: 05/26/09

Organized by:  Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai