Last modified on 29 October 1998

19th FST & TCS 1999


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Nineteenth Conference on the
FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY
AND THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
December 13-15, 1999 Chennai, India
IARCS , the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, announces the 19th Annual FST & TCS Conference in Chennai, organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

It is tentatively planned to hold some pre-conference workshops, including one on Data Structures. The Conference will be followed by the International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC) also to be held in Chennai, and some joint events with ISAAC are also being planned. More details will be announced later.

Call for Papers

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on all theoretical aspects of Computer Science. Papers in application areas with a strong foundational emphasis are also welcome.

Proceedings of the last five years' conferences, published by Springer Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) -- volumes 880, 1026, 1180, 1346, 1530 -- give an idea of the kind of papers typically presented at FST\&TCS.

Submissions

Authors may submit drafts of full papers or extended abstracts. Submissions are limited to 12 A4-size pages, with 1 inch margins and 11 point or larger font. Authors who feel that more details are necessary may include a clearly marked appendix which will be read at the discretion of the Programme Committee. Each paper should contain a short abstract. If available, e-mail addresses and fax numbers of the authors should be included.

Electronic submission is strongly encouraged. Self-contained uuencoded gzipped Postscript versions of the paper may be sent by e-mail to fsttcs99@imsc.ernet.in . If this is not possible, authors may submit five (5) hard-copies of the paper by post to the address below.

The Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference.

Important dates

Deadline for Submission 31 May, 1999
Notification to Authors: 15 August, 1999
Final Version of Accepted Papers due: 12 September, 1999
Conference: 13-15 December, 1999

Address for Submissions

Conference Email Address: fsttcs99@imsc.ernet.in
Conference Home Page: (to be set up) http://www.imsc.ernet.in/~fsttcs99
Postal Address: The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
C.I.T. Campus, Taramani
Chennai 600 113, India.
Phone: ++91-44 235 1856
Fax: ++91-44 235 0586

Programme Committee

S. Arun-Kumar (IIT, Delhi) V. Arvind (IMSc, Chennai)
Zhou Chaochen (UNU/IIST, Macau) Tamal Dey (IIT, Kharagpur)
Devdatt Dubhashi (IIT, Delhi) Melvin Fitting (CUNY, New York)
Lance Fortnow (U. Chicago) Ramesh Hariharan (IISc, Bangalore)
Kohei Honda (U. Edinburgh) Samir Khuller (U. Maryland, College Park)
Kamala Krithivasan (IIT, Chennai) K. Narayan Kumar (SMI, Chennai)
Ming Li (U. Waterloo) Kamal Lodaya (IMSc, Chennai)
Paliath Narendran (SUNY, Albany) C. Pandurangan (IIT, Chennai) (General Chair)
Rajeev Raman (King's College, London) Venkatesh Raman (IMSc, Chennai) (Co-chair)
R. Ramanujam (IMSc, Chennai) (Co-chair) S. Ramesh (IIT, Mumbai)
Uday S. Reddy (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Natarajan Shankar (SRI, California)
Scott Smolka (SUNY, Stony Brook) Milind Sohoni (IIT, Mumbai)
Wolfgang Thomas

Organizers

The 19th FST&TCS will be organized by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai 600 036.