Platinum Jubilee of the Indian Statistical Institute International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications March 5 - 7, 2007 Venue: Kolkata First Call for Participation Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), an institute of national importance, was founded in 1931 by the visionary Professor Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis. The Institute has earned international laurels in a wide spectrum of disciplines spanning Statistics, Mathematics, Computer and Communication Sciences, Biological Sciences, Physical and Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, and Statistical Quality Control and Operations Research. A year-long celebration of the Platinum Jubilee of the Institute during 2006-07 will comprise a series of events. The Computer and Communication Sciences Division of the Institute is organizing an international conference in the areas of the topics listed below. The program of this event includes tutorials and invited talks by eminent scientists, and contributed papers by researchers from academia and industry all over the world. Original contributions are solicited in each of the following conference tracks. The main topics covered under each track are listed below. Paper submission is not limited to the topics listed under each track. Any paper following the theme of the track will be considered. Track I: Algorithms and Architectures Track II: Pattern Recognition and Soft Computing Track III: Document, Language and Signal Processing Including Digital libraries, web applications, ontology, information extraction and retrieval, text summarization and abstracting, etc. Track IV: Image Processing, Computer Vision and Graphics Conference proceedings will be published by a renowned international publisher in the area of Computer Science. Important Dates Paper submission: August 18, 2006 Paper acceptance: November 3, 2006 Camera-ready submission and Registration: December 1, 2006 Contact Address: Platinum Jubilee Conference Secretariat, CVPR Unit, 8th Floor, Library Building, 203, B.T. Road, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 700108. e-mail: ccsd_platinum@isical.ac.in Website: http://www.isical.ac.in/~ccsd_platinum/ ___________________________________________________ Anup Kumar Das/ Bidyarthi Dutta/ Swapan Kumar Patra Information and Communication Society of India, New Delhi ___________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new. http://in.answers.yahoo.com