The tutorial talk will focus on the following aspects of the
technology
Topic: Some Decidability Results for Duration
Calculus under synchronous interpretation
Keywords: Specification/Verification; Real-time
systems; Automatic Theorem Proving.
Presented by:
Manoranjan Satapathy
Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati - 781001, India
Dan Van Hung
International Institute for Software Technology, Post Box 3058, Macau
Paritosh K Pandya
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India.
Abstract:
Duration Calculus (or DC in short) presents a formal notation to
specify properties of real-time systems and a calculus to
formally prove such properties. Decidability is the underlying
foundation to automated reasoning. But, excepting some of its
simple fragments, DC has been shown to be undecidable.
DC takes the set of real numbers to represent time. The main
reason of undecidability comes from the assumption that, in a
real-time system, state changes can occur at any time point. But
an implementation of a specification is ultimately executed on a
computer, and theire states change according to a system clock.
Under such an assumption, it has been shown that the
decidability results can be extended to cover relatively richer
subsets of DC. In this report, we extend such decidability
results to still richer subsets of DC. As a result, many
real-time systems of importance could now be mechanically
verified.
Topic: Reconstructing The Database After
Electronic Invasion
Presented by:
Brajendra Panda
Department of Computer Science
University of North Dakota, P.O. Box 9015
Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA
Abstract:
It is extremely difficult to build computer systems that share
information over the networks and still remain invulnerable to
electronic attacks. There are techniques to detect such attacks.
This research is based on the assumption that the database
system has been attacked electronically and the attacking
transaction has been detected. A graph based approach is used in
this paper to determine the damage made by the attacker. Two
algorithims are developed one of which makes the damage
assessment while the second one recovers the database to a
consistent state.
Topic: Computing area filling contours
for delaunay triangulated surfaces
Presented by:
P.N. Girija, K. Kalyana Chakravarthy and A. Bhanu Shankar
Department of Computer/Information Sciences
Artificial Intelligence Lab
University of Hyderabad
Hyderabad - 500046
Abstract:
Surface representation and reconstruction are important problems
in a variety of disciplines including geographic data
processing, computer vision, computer graphics and computer
aided design. The delauny triangulation in both two and three
dimensions has been used by different authours as the basis for
constructing object-centered surface descriptions. The triangle
based representations are invarient through rigid
transformations, they adapt to the variable density of data
distribution, and they can easily be updated. In particular,
among all possible triangulations Delauny triangulation is
considered the most appropriate for surface approximation
because of the equilateral shape of its triangles.
Topic: An Indexing Technique For
Efficient Retrieval From
Large Dictionaries
Presented by:
K. Narayana Murthy
Department of CIS
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500046 INDIA
Phone: 3010512 Extn. 4056,FAX : 91-040-3010145
email: knmcs@uohyd. ernet. in
Abstract:
This paper is about efficient retrieval from large dictionaries.
Dictionaries are often too large to fit into the main memory of
a computer. Good indexing schemes are required to make
dictionary access efficient. In this paper we present a specific
indexing technique for efficient retrieval from large
dictionaries. Our scheme includes a non-dense TRIE index stored
in main memory and a dense index file stored in secondary
memory. To look up any word in the dictionary, only a few
character comparisions and a few word comparisions would be
required. For both kinds of comparisios, upper bounds can be
specified. We can also easily fine tune this indexing scheme to
get good performance for any given dictionary and given machine
configuration.
Topic: Introduction To Data Mining
Technology And Applications : A Tutorial
Presented by:
Anustup Nayak,
School of Public Policy,
Georgia institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A
Abstract:
As corporate and public sector entities accept information
technology as a production factor in their business processes,
the volume of organizational knowledge captured in electronic
database has grown exponentially. Data mining is a suite of
tools and techniques that seek to discover hidden knowledge,
interesting patterns and new business rules hidden in
repositories of electronic data. Currently regarded as the key
element of a much more elaborate process of Knowledge Discovery
in Database (KDD), Data Mining integrates theoretical
perspectives from statistics, machine learning and artificial
intelligence. From the standpoint of technology implementation
it relies on advances in data modeling, data warehousing and
information retrieval. However the most important challenges lie
in organizing business practices around the knowledge discovery
activity. As India gears towards an informatized economy, there
are huge gains to be made from realizing the gains of this new
technology. With the growth of consumer related information for
market research, online database for financial decision support,
public domain databases on meteorology and satelite images and
possibilities for creating on line libraries, there is enormous
scope for applications on data mining techniques and research in
the country.
What is Data Mining?
The process of knowledge discovery in database.
Algorithimic approaches to data mining.
Industrial applications of data mining.
Brief overview of Text data mining : my experience
Implementing data mining in a corporate context
How Indian business and government agencies can benefit.
Topic: A Tutorial On Java
Presented by:
Gyanendra Ku. Patra
HCL India
Abstract:
At the present day IT, many vendors are supplying machines which
are of different architecture and they use different types of OS
as well as software on them. But the internet community is
trying to combine these together in a single forum with a single
network. The traffic of the communication channel is increasing
which is leading to infrastructural problems. When the
infrastructure comes into picture, then everything lies either
at the user end or the communication bandwidth. By' at the user
end' I mean to say that the type of hardware they use or the
software they operate upon. At this juncture of diversity in
network protocols as well as machine architecture java comes
into picture providing a challenging solution to the net
community for high accessibility as well as reliability. The
most rewarding solution what java provides is that it unites the
different architectures, protocols into a single one. In this
tutorial we are going to see a comparative study of java and the
rest of the Internet tools and java's importance on the
community.
Topic:
Distributed Cluster-Based Information Retrieval System
Presented by:
Jay N. Bhuyan
Computer Science Department
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, AL 36088, U.S.A.
j.bhuyan @ computer.org
Venkat N. Gudivada
Dow Jones Markets
Harborside Financial Centre
Jersey City, NJ 07311, U.S.A.
gudivada@tts.dowjones.com
Abstract:
This paper discusses the design and implementation of a complete
information retrieval system in which the feedback from a number
of users of the system, about its performance (global feedback),
is stored in the form of clusters called user-oriented clusters.
These clusters are utilized in answering a query in conjuction
with feedback obtained about the system's performance after a
partial retrieval of the query (local feedback). The global
feedback is also utilized for balancing the load when the
clusters of documents are distributed among different processors
in a distributed environment.
The first part of the paper deals with the use of user-oriented
clusters without the consideration of any distributed
environment. Clusters are constructed taking into account the
user's perception of similarity between documents. The system
accumulates feedback from the users into 3 undirected graphs and
uses it to construct user-oriented clusters. An optimization
function to improver the effectiveness of the clustering process
is developed and optimized through genetic algorithms. In order
to determine an appropriate description of clusters we decided
to discard some redundant and inappropriate terms present in
the document collection. This problem, called term refinement
problem, is formulated and solved. Clusters and queries are
represented as the vectors of the selected terms. The system
starts retrieving clusters in a decreasing order of their cosine
similarities to a user's query until the user is satisfied. The
system developed is experimentally validated and shows an
average improvement in the range of 87-237% over an existing
system based on vector space model.
The second part of this paper deals with some ongoing research
on the distribution of documents in a distributed environment.
We assume that a term present both in a query and a cluster
results in a unit of computation that determines the cosine
similarity between the two. It is also assumed that the
frequency of use of a term by past queries is directly
proportional to the frequency of its use for future queries.
The problem is to distribute the clusters into different
processors such that each processor does the same amount of
computation. As this problem is found to be NP-hard any optimal
solution is unlikely to exist. We propose two heuristic methods:
one based on greedy technique and the other based on genetic
algorithms, to solve this problem. We also discuss ongoing
experiments of this system on a cluster of workstation.
Topic: HPTL: A New Temporal Logic for
Real-Time Systems
Presented by:
Parthasarathi Roop
University of New South Wales
Abstract:
We propose a new multi-level temporal logic, HPTL (Hidden
Propositional Temporal Logic) and compare it with existing
schemes. HPTL supports hidden propositions which help in
expressing quantitative temporal constraints in a propositional
framework. It also supports module name qualifiers of the form
[in c]p helpful in expressing local safety and liveness
properties of composite systems. We propose a semantics of HPTL
in terms of composed sequence functions and propose scheme for
the propagation of local properties to the global level.
Topic: Development Of a Mobile
Intelligent Agent Based On The Agent
Building Environment (ABE) architecture
Presented by:
S. Yerneni, G.R. Mohapatra , T. Alwast
Victoria University of Technology
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
PO Box:14428, MC, Melbourne
Victoria 8001, Australia
Abstract:
Now-a-days, almost everyone has access to Internet and it has
become part of daily life to surf the net for latest news in all
areas. It is lots of fun and also informative to surf the net.
But it takes lot of time to retrieve webpages and look for the
required information when the traffic is very high.
Today's networks are composed of many interconnected
heterogeneous resources. Users specify personal, rule-based,
intelligent agents that control the retrieval and handling done
on their behalves. It is essential to use tools able to master
this great amount of complexity to manage network resources in a
single and consistent way. Many intelligent agents and agent
prototypes have been introduced in recent years. But each of
these agents is entering a different application niche and
promotes the particular decision technology. If this sequence
continues, in near future we are likely to see an explosion of
agent confusion, created by masses of non-standard and
non-communicating agents absorbing the network resources.
The ABE Developer's toolkit is designed to ease agent-enabling
of applications. The Agent Building Environment (ABE)
Architecture describes an agent structure, which allows for
agents to be created with different types of intelligence
engines and integrated into existing applications. This ABE
architecture supports the Agent Design Model (ADM).
This paper involves the development of a mobile intelligent
agent based on the ABE architecture. This agent will sit on the
client computer and acts on the remote server which in our case
is the Internet. Due to this reason, it will not be using most
of network resources. The main task of this agent is to retrieve
the specified web page, read all the course information of
computer science department and email user only about the
important information. This saves time and effort for user and
he just have to start the agent program to run and he will get
all the information whenever he wants. Due to this, the agent
will not be wandering on the internet, thereby decreasing the
network traffic.
This agent is provided with user interface in which user can
select some option like loading or unloading the fact set
dynamically which the agent is running.
Topic: EDI, Business Objects the basic
blocks of developing Higher
Applications-workflow, Distributed Application systems, and
Electronic Commerce-An SAP prospective.
Presented by:
Manoranjan Baral,
SAP America, USA
Abstract:
The Internet world has changed the conventional way of doing
business. Electronic Commerce has become a buzz word these days.
In business sense, it refers to electronically handled business
transactions between customer/company/reseller and companies.
Business object forms the backbone of Electronic Commerce.
In a technical perspective, Electronic Commerce refers to
Business over the Internet (Web Browser, Web Server, Transaction
Servers, Application Servers, Database Servers, Workflow, and
EDI).
Electronic Commerce creates conditions for short response times
to customer requests and saves money with fully automated
business operations.
Typical Examples :
* Handling of Bank Transactions (Electronic Banking)
* Software purchase and distribution (Electronic software delivery)
* Processing of work orders and purchase orders(Electronic Ordering)
Note: Above material is a personal view of mine, not an SAP official Document.
Message from Programme Chairs
We take this opportunity to brief you about the conference and
thank Patrons and well wishers.
We consider this success as an acievement of NCIT'97 and hope
NCIT series of conference will culminate as an annual event in
future.
We are thankful to the Vice-Chancellor, Utkal University. His
encouragement has helped immensely to organise the National
Conference on Information Technology (NCIT'97).
National Conference on Information Technology -97 plans to
discuss on the prospectives of spectacular progress in
Information Technology. It is indeed a pleasure to welcome our
distinguished speakers Professor L.M.Patnaik, IISc.,Bangalore,
Professor S. K. Pal, ISI., Calcutta. who have kindly consented
for Key-Note addresses on the state-of-art in Information
Technology. A follow up of special technical session is planned
and speakers have chosen to talk on Autonomous agents, mobile
computing and Geographical Information Systems. Research papers
pertaining to several areas viz. Agent based computing ,
information retrieval, real time systems, OOP neural network,
computer graphics are selected on careful scrutinizations.
Further keeping current trends on information technology
development in views tutorials on data mining, web programming
and Java are planned . The conference has also planned for
panel discussions on IT Education and Internet Access. We hope
the planned video show on 50 years of Silicon Valley will be
interesting to our participants. In order to give a fillip to
IT growth in Orissa, a panel discussion on NRI/NRO involvement
is planned.
Especially for students we plan to organize a counselling on
higher education and career development in IT. Faculties from
several national and international institutions plan to address
students. It is a pleasure to tell you that IT profesionals from
all over the globe with an interest to further the cause of IT
education and industry, plan to forge a professional body. We
consider this success as an achievement of NCIT-97 and hope NCIT
series of conferences will culminate as an annual event in
future.
For making this conference successful we are grateful to Prof.
G. K. Das Vice Chancellor, Utkal University for their kind
patronage. Thanks to Dr. Chitta Baral Dr. R. N. Mohapatra, Ms.
Suchitra Pattnaik, Staff and Students of Dept. of Computer Sc.
of Utkal University. We are highly thankful to Indian Institute
of Science and Information Technology Orissa Computer Academy,
Kalinga Institute of Technology, C.V. Raman College of Engg.
Bhubaneswar for sponsoring lunch and dinner for the delegates of
NCIT -97.
We pay homage to Jyoti Ranjan Nanda, who had actively
participated for the organization of this conference. We are
extremely sorry for his sad and untimely demise in a road
accident in Bhubaneswar. Inspite of several hurdles his dream
has been fulfilled in organizing NCIT-97. We pray that his soul
may rest in peace.
Topic: Think the GIS way
Presented by:
Ms. Suchitra Pattnaik
TEKON Services
29/30 Rasulgarh Ind. Est.
Bhubaneswar-10
Ph : 91-674-581885, Ph/Fax : 91-674-580529.
email : suchitra/bhubaneswar@dartmail.dartnet.com
Abstract:
Today, Geographic Information System (GIS) is a
multi-billion-dollar industry employing hundreds of thousands of
people worldwide. GIS is being taught in schools, colleges and
universities throughout the world though it is still in its
infancy in India. There are definite advantages of thinking and
working geographically and that is the reason why GIS is
increasingly becoming a predominant technology to help with
decision making and problem solving.
GIS is a computer based tool for mapping and analyzing things
that exist and events that occur on Earth. A GIS stores
information about the world as a collection of thematic layers
that can be linked together by geography. This is relatively a
simple concept having a broad range application to many
real-world problems from flood damage estimate to traffic volume
monitoring, to planning of train networks. GIS technology
integrates common database operations such as query and
statistical analysis with the unique visualisation and
geographic analysis benefits offered by maps. This is how GIS is
different from other information systems and makes it an
important tool for explaining events, predicting outcomes and
planning strategies.
The article focuses on the GIS methodology, the GIS building
blocks, the GIS technologies and tasks, and its applicants in
transportaion, mapping and land use planning.
Topic: Image Compression Using Wavelet
Transform
Presented by:
G. Panda, S.K. Meher, K.C. Mohapatra
REC Rourkela
Abstract:
Image compression is an important issue in many applications
including Biomedical Imaging, Geophysics, Communication and
Astronomy. This paper presents a novel image compression
technique using Discrete Wavelet Transform. The proposed
algorithim has been applied to two different digital images and
it is observed that a substantial compression of images is
possible. From the compressed data it is possible to reconstruct
faithfully the original images by using Inverse Discrete Wavelet
Transform.
Topic: Design of Circular Microstrip
Antenna : A Neural Network Approach
Presented by:
A. Patnaik, S.K. Dash, R.K. Mishra
Department of Electronic Science
Berhampur University, Berhampur-760007
Abstract:
Indexing terms : Circular microstrip antenna, Neural networks,
Resonant frequency
An artificial neural network architecture is developed for
design of circular microstrip antenna. The network takes the
thickness of the substrate(h in mm), dielectric constant (Er)
and the resonant frequency in the dominant TM11 mode (fr in
GHZ) as its input and gives the corresponding radius (a in mm)
of the circular patch. A fast learning algorithm has been used
for training.
Topic: Software Engineering Process
Presented by:
Nerraj Kapoor, Sambit Samal & Vedvyas
Infosys Technologies Limited,
Bhubaneswar
Abstract:
The growing complexity of information systems and the ensuing
problems of their development and management have highlighted
the inadequacy of the formal and informal methods for
constructing highly reliable systems. These problems manifest
themselves in the computer system. Users have often demanded for
reliable computer system because they realise that most failures
are due to poor specification and design.
The Software Engineering Matrix Analysis Methodology stated here
aims to demonstrate an approach to software development that
will not only led to good information system creation. Will also
help to keep track of the various steps involved in the
development cycle. Also a strict adherance to it will help to
achieve creation of software which have standardisation built
into it.
Topic: An Inventory Model Under
Conditional Credit facility
with intermediate payments for stock dependent demand rate.
Presented by:
S.K. Sahu, P.K. Tripathy
Orissa Computer Academy
Bhubaneswar
and
P.G. Department of Statistics,
Utkal University.
Abstract:
A mathematical model has been derived for obtaining Economic
Order Quantity of an item for which the supplier permits a
conditional credity facility in settling the amount owned to him
and there are intermediate payments from the customer. In the
proposed model, the demand rate is assumed not only to be stock
dependent but also follow the relationship
. To illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed model, the
numerical results have been found using Newton Raphson method.
Topic: Speaker Independent Speech
Recognition Using
Adaptive Response Theory Network
Presented by:
S.K. Udgata & Smita Mahapatra
Department of Computer Science,
Berhampur University, Berhampur,
Orissa -760007
Abstract:
Artificial neural network being excellent detector for pattern
recognition problems has become a major topic of study in recent
years. Speech recognition is now one of the major significant
research area under the broad domain of Artificial Neural
Network as a pattern recognition problem. Indeed, it is major
domain of computer science apart from other traditional
disciplines that study the spoken words.
In this paper, an attempt has been made to recognize the speaker
independent speech using an important paradigm of artificial
neural network called Adaptive Resonance Theory which is
intended to be consistent with human brain Speech recognition is
a much-talked about topic in recent times. The related works are
often viewed with either unrealistic expectations or unwarranted
sceptism and a prudent appraisal are rare. This paper attempts
to examine several aspects of speech recognition by applying
different schemes of Adaptive Resonance Theory viz. ART-2A and
S-ART based on general ART network principle.
Speaker independent speech recognition is an example of pattern
recognition where words from a given vocabulary have to be
recognised irrespective of the speaker, his/her mood, pitch etc.
The speech signal is recorded in 16 bit signed linear PCM format
at 32 KHz. Background noise is eliminated by detecting the end
points in the speech signal using the end point location
algorithm based on the standard deviation method. The speech
signal which comprises of different types of information such as
syntactic structure, meaning sex, his/her mood and so on. For
speech recognition problem the focus is on obtaining the
information relevant to recognition to spoken words and
eliminating all irrelevant information. The relevant information
is extracted using MEl Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MECCs)
by applying Fast Fourier Transform to a Hamming window moved in
steps of 16 ms. and eight MFCCs are evaluated for each window of
speech. As the neural network is taken to be fixed size, the
number of windows for all the words are need to be constant for
which the MFCCs are time normalised to obtain 20 units of 8
MFCCs. Since the speech need
to be independent of the pitch, the MFCCs are also amplitude
normalised to remove continuity constraints and then the MFCCs
are smoothened.
The preprocessed speech signal is now presented to the ART
network for training. The training is done by taking number of
speech samples from a given vocabulary by different speakers.
After successful training, the network is able to recognize the
words from the vocabulary spoken by any speaker irrespective of
the speaker being involved in the training or not.
The performance with regard to noise level, speed and accuracy
is compared and it has been found that S-ART network model is a
better alternate.
Key Words: Speech Recognition, Artificial Neural Network,
Adaptive Resonance Theory, Unsupervised Learning.
Topic: Performance Evaluation of Art
Network
Models For Finger Print Recognition
Presented by:
S.K. Udgata & Smita Mahapatra
Department of Computer Science,
Berhampur University, Berhampur,
Orissa 760007
Abstract:
Identifying persons through their fingerprints has been an age
old and well established technique. Finger print recognition
problems have always been the focus of the researchers for past
several years. Many algorithms have been proposed and
implemented for successful recognition of the fingerprints.
Artificial neural networks having excellent feature detection
characteristics are considered to be one of the important tools
for pattern recognition problems. Finger print recognition
problems can also be considered in a broad domain of pattern
recognition problem. Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) network
models are very recent, effective and powerful tools for
classification of patterns in an unsupervised mode. The ART
network model also solves the stability-plasticity dilemma to a
greater extent. ART-1, ART-2, ART-2A, S-ART are various ART
network models proposed in the same order for various
classification problems each one having its own advantages and
limitations.
In this paper, an attempt has been made to apply the ART network
models for finger print identification with the inherent
characteristics viz. rotation, scaling, translation, noise etc.
Each fingerprint is mapped onto a 512 x 512 binary matrix in
which a ridge is represented by '1', otherwise '0'.
The input finger print matrices with rotational, scaled,
translational features are preprocessed to obtain the moment
invariant features before being presented to the S-ART network,
but the same binary matrix is presented to the ART-1 network for
training. The performance of ART-1 and S-ART network model with
respect to fingerprint recognition with rotational, scaled,
translational and noise features are compared. It has been found
that the performance of S-ART model with respect to noise level,
speed and accuracy is better than ART-1 model for disorted
fingerprints.
Key Words: Finger Print, Artificial Neural Network, Adaptive
Resonance Theory, Unsupervised Learning, Moment Invariant
Features.
Topic: Developing High-level
Object-Oriented Software
Presented by:
Rakesh Agrawal
Infosys Technologies Limited, Near Planetarium,
Bhubaneswar
email: rakesh_a@inf.com, Ph: 583068-71, Fax: 583991
Abstract:
The growing complexity of information systems and the ensuring
problems of their development, maintenance and management have
highlighted the inadequacy of formal and informal methods for
constructing such systems. These problems manifest themselves in
the computer systems which are often unmanageable, unreliable,
inflexible and hence difficult to maintain. Users have often
demanded for reliable computer systems because they realize that
most failures are due to poor specification, and design. This
has resulted in the emergence of a number of information systems
methodologies together with associated computerized development
environments in which the Object-Oriented (OO) approach is one
of the most recent.
OO is often used for promoting software development and its
reuse. Languages like Smalltalk reduce not only development time
but also the cost of maintenance, simplifying the creation of
new systems and the reuse of old ones. Nevertheless OO is not a
panacea i.e. efforts are to put in for its proper use. Thus we
consider OO as a paradigm which provides a new image, a new way
of conceptualizing the development life cycle. By the help of
paradigms, software developers and users are supported in
apprehending the development life cycle and means to organize
the aspects of the life cycle into a comprehensive method.
PATHOS (A paradigmatic Approach To High-level Object-Oriented
Software development) aims to demonstrate an approach to
information system development that will lead not only to good
information system creation, but also to explicitly represent
the maintenance of the business knowledge so as to allow for its
more effective and active exploitation at run time.
I am happy to learn that the Department of Computer Science &
Application,Utkal University, Bhubaneswar is organising a
National Conference on Information Technology on December 21,
1997, in which many of Non-Resident Oriyas working in the field
of Information Technology would practicipate. I am sure that
this conference would go a long way towards popularizing
Information Tehchnology in the State and also that it would
arrive at a consensus in the form of road-map which would launch
the State in the path of rapid evolution in the I.T. field.
P.K.Mishra
Additional Chief Secretary,
Government of Orissa and Chiarman,
Orissa State Electronics Development Corporation.
I am delighted that the post-graduate Department of Computer
Science and Application, Utkal University, is hosting a National
Conference on Information Technology. It will bring together
scientists and engineers for interchange of views on
state-of-art technologies in their discipline. The event is
going to be a historic one as it coincides with the Golden
Jubilee of our country's Independence ! I warmly felicitate all
the participants and the organisers on this occasion. Computer
Science and Technology will bring about more rapid changes in
every sphere of our life. In our country, in particular, there
is the need for careful planning in this area. Our massive human
resources are to be matched with our growing technological
resources. Universities and industries should so co-ordinate
their activities that the advantages ultimately flow to the
people. I congratulate the Department of Computer Science and
Application on their initiative in organising the conference. I
wish it success in everyway.
(G. K. Das)
Vice-Chancellor
Utkal University,
Bhubaneswar
I am glad to know that a National Conference on Information
Technology is being organised by the Department of Computer
Science and Application of Utkal University from 21st to 23rd
December, 1997. The Conference aims at bringing academicians,
engineers and scientists together for close exchange of views on
State-of-art technologies for multifarious and widely growing
areas of computer applications and on advancement of Information
Technology in our State.
I wish the Conference all success.
(S.B.Mishra)
Chief Secretary
Govt. of Orissa
I am happy to learn that Department of Computer Science &
Application, Utkal University, Vani Vihar is organising a
National Conference on Information Technology from 21st to 23rd
December, 1997. Information Technology has rapidly advanced in
these years. It now plays a most powerful and pivotal role in
computer application network. Information-rich nations are now
the true rulers of the world. Therefore, we have to keep
ourselves abreast of these technologies so that all plans and
schedules of development truly take shape. I welcome all
scientists, academicians and computer professionals to
Bhubaneswar. I wish the conference and its deliberations
resounding success.
J.B.Pattnaik
Chief Minister