ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd ICQRIT 2006 2 - 4 DECEMBER 2006 3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON QUALITY, RELIABILITY AND INFOCOM TECHNOLOGY (Trends And Future Direction) Venue Indian National Science Academy Bahadurshah Zafar Marg New Delhi-110002 Organised by Society for Reliability Engineering, Quality and Operations Management Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi Defense Research and Development Organisation Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani Co-Organised by DQM Research Center, Prijevor, Cacak, Serbia Department of O.R. and S.Q.C., S.K. University, Kurnool MMK College of Commerce& Economics Bandra ,Mumbai 33 1 3rd ICQRIT 2006 OBJECTIVE The world is fast heading towards a single market. In this globally competitive environment, quality and reliability are the key issues in attaining market leadership. This competitive advantage through quality and reliability in the market place is possible through the development of knowledge bases and easy access to structured databases on systems, processes and technology in general. This theme on “Quality, Reliability and IT” is most appropriate in the current context as well as in the future. Issues in Information-Communication Technology in the current perspective include communication over high performance networks, reliable and secured flow of information. Reliability issues are also of prime importance in the development of high quality software, design of systems and processes and their maintenance. Life Cycle Cost and Effectiveness are the buzzwords in industry to provide a cutting edge in the commercial sector including industries such as the defense, automation and aerospace and the power utilities. The Conference will not only take stock of trends and developments at the turn of the millennium, but will also provide future directions. Besides, it will help in sharing of experience and exchange of ideas, which will foster National/International collaboration. The first ICQRIT was held in the year 2000, which was an overwhelming success. During the valedictory function of the Conference the delegates called upon the organizers to hold the event every three years, consequently the second ICQRIT was held in 2003. Now we are holding the third ICQRIT . The topics of the Conference would include but not restricted to : Quality Management • Statistical Methods in Quality Control • Design for Quality • Power Systems • Software and Quality Standards • Total Quality Management Reliability • Reliability and Maintenance • Power Systems • Software Engineering and Testing • Human Systems • Reliable and Secure Communications • Computing Systems Modeling and Simulation • General Problems • Combat Operations and War Games 2 • Stochastic modeling in environment with special reference to seismic and land slide hazards Infocomm Technology (IT) • Coding and Prototyping • Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems • Network Technologies • Applications in Business, Marketing, Finance, Education, HealthCare and rural Development • Operations Research and IT • IT Security • Mobile Communications Mathematics Applications • Fuzzy Sets • Artificial Neural networks • Stochastic Petrinets Safety and Risk analysis • Probabilistic Safety Assessment • Risk Analysis • Probabilistic Fracture Mechanism and Fatigue Analysis There will be special sessions for invited lectures by eminent experts from the fields of Quality, Reliability and IT. CALL FOR PAPERS Authors interested in presenting research papers of theoretical / applied nature or case studies are invited to submit an Abstract not exceeding 300 words latest by August 15, 2006. The abstract should include keywords/phrases, full address along with the broad conference topic. The conference souvenir will contain abstracts of the papers accepted for presentation. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The refereed proceedings of the conference will be brought out after the conference. Registered delegates will be entitled for a copy of the proceedings. Three copies of the full paper are to be submitted preferably by October 31, 2006. Accepted papers are eligible for publication in the Conference Proceedings subject to a page limitation. Authors need not submit complete papers if they are not interested in including their papers in the Conference Proceedings. 3 CHIEF PATRON Deepak Pental, Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi, Delhi PATRONS K. V. Raghavan, Chairman, RAC, DRDO, India L. K. Maheshwari Director, BITS, Pilani Manoj Tirodkar CMD, GTL, Mumbai Kailash Chaudhary CMD, Aksh Optic Fibre Ltd, Delhi Piyush Goel CMD, Flashnet(India) Ltd, Mumbai Kameshwar Rao Director, MIC Ltd, Hyderabad Nanik Rupani CMD, ENKAY Telecom Ltd, Mumbai Ljubisa Papic Serbia GENERAL CHAIR P. K. Kapur, University of Delhi, Delhi CONFERENCE CHAIR A. K. Verma, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Arun Kumar, Defence Research Development Organisation A. Srividya, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay CONFERENCE CO-CHAIR C. Umashankar, Dept. of O. R. and S. Q. C., S. K. University E. Sankara Rao, IDFC, Mumbai D. N. Goswami, Jiwaji University N. L. Butani, MMK College, Mumbai CONFERENCE SECRETARY A. K. Bardhan, DU, Delhi CONFERENCE JOINT-SECRETARY Anu Gupta, DU, Delhi 4 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE S. K. Tandon, Pro Vice-Chancellor, DU, Delhi, Chair Dinesh Singh, Director, South Campus, DU, India Co-Chair Amarnath Banerjee, USA Amit Mokashi, USA Arya Kumar, BITS, Pilani Ashok K. Mittal, India B. R. Natarajan, BITS, Pilani Bo Bergman, Sweden C. R. Bector, Canada Chris Seow, UK D. Bhatia, India D. N. P. Murthy, Australia Frank Beichelt, South Africa Fugee Tsung, Hong Kong G. Gopal, India H. Pham, USA Hiroyuki Okamura, Japan Ioan C. Bacivarov, Romania J. Knezevic, UK J. Rajgopal, USA Jin Wang, UK John D. Musa, USA K. B. Misra, India K. Kanoun, France K. Rambabu, India K. S. Trivedi, USA Kai-Yuan Cai, China Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, USA Krishna Havaldar, India Kus Sharma, India L Thabane, Canada Ljubisa Papic, Serbia M. Jeya Chandra, USA M. Mostafa, Egypt M. R. Lyu, Hong Kong M. R. Rao, India Mahesh Chandra, USA Mahesh Pandey, Canada Manju Lata Agarwal, Delhi Min Xie, Singapore Mitsuhiro Kimura, Japan Naota Kaio, Japan O P Gupta, USA 5 Omar Shatnawi, Jordan P. B. Sharma, Delhi P. H. Bhave, India P. R. Parthasarathy, IIT, Chennai P. S. Kruger, South Africa Peter Cerone, Australia Rajasekhar Reddy, India Ram Chillarege, USA S. Chakarvorti, USA S. G. Deshmukh, India S. J. Classen, South Africa S. K. Goyal, Canada S. Kumar, Zimbabwe S. Osaki, Japan S. P. Mukherjee, India S. Venkateswaran, BITS, India S. Yamada, Japan Said Younes, Syria Sam Keene, USA Santosh N. Kabadi, Canada Soundar R.T. Kumara, USA Stephen E. Chick, France Sy-Yen Kuo, Taiwan Tadashi Dohi, Japan U. Dinesh Kumar, India V. K.Gaur, India V. Makis, Canada V. Mitra, India V. S. S. Yadavalli, South Africa V. Shankar, India Vijay Nair, USA Way Kuo, USA 6 REGISTRATION FEE Delegates from abroad: Without accommodation : US$250 With accommodation (twin sharing) : US$500 With accommodation (single occupancy) : US$600 ( $50 discount over registration fee for SREQOM members ) Delegates from research / educational institutions (India): Without accommodation : Rs. 3000 With accommodation (twin sharing) : Rs. 4000 With accommodation (single occupancy) : Rs. 6000 ( Rs. 500 discount over registration fee for SREQOM members ) Corporate Delegates (India): Without accommodation : Rs. 5000 With accommodation (twin sharing) : Rs. 6000 With accommodation (single occupancy) : Rs. 8000 ( Rs. 500 discount over registration fee for SREQOM members ) Students: Without accommodation : Rs. 1000 / US$150 With accommodation (twin sharing) : Rs. 2000/US$300 ( Rs. 200 / $20 discount over registration fee for SREQOM members ) The registration fee includes Conference kit, lunches, tea/coffee and conference dinner. The registration fee is to be made by account payee demand draft in favour of “ICQRIT” and made payable at Delhi/New Delhi. Delegates accompanied by their spouses shall pay an additional amount of US$200 only in addition to their registration fee. The spouses will be entitled to all conference facilities except conference kit. For Indian delegates this amount is Rs.2000. US$30 or Rs. 500 may be added to the registration fee as late fee, if it is paid after October 31, 2006, for foreign or Indian delegates respectively. Individual letters of invitation, which can be useful for obtaining grants, will be sent on request. 7 VENUE The venue of the conference is Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Bahadurshah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002. New Delhi, the capital and the third largest city of India is a fusion of the ancient and the modern. Comprising of two contrasting yet harmonious parts, the Old Delhi and New Delhi, the city is a travel hub of Northern India.INSA has excellent conference facilities with auditoriums and convention centers. It is centrally located with easy access to airports, railway terminals and prime commercial centers of the city. Details about local transportation will be mailed to the participants before the conference. CLIMATE Delhi is situated on the banks of river Yamuna in the northern part of India. It is a land locked city with type of continental climate. Delhi, the capital of India, is 239 meters above sea level. Weather will be pleasant in December. Temperature ranges between 6 to 25 degree Celsius in this season. Standing along the West End of Gangetic Plain, Delhi, unwinds a picture rich with monuments, museums, galleries, gardens and exotic shows. 8 ORGANISING COMMITTEE Chair R. K. Jain, R.A.C., DRDO Co-Chair P. C. Jha, DU, Delhi Piyush N. Mehta, TCS, Mumbai Vivek Agarwal, IIT, Mumbai Suraj Rane, PCCE, Goa Members A. A. Chari, Kurnool A. D. Dharmadhikari, University of Pune, Pune A. M. Salsingikar, Mumbai Amit Sharma, Bangalore Amrina Kausar, DU, Delhi Anshu Gupta, DU, Delhi Ashok Jethy, MTIM, Delhi B. Bandyopadhyay, IIT Bombay B. K. Dass, DU, Delhi Bimal C. Deka, AEC, Guwahati C. Nadamuni Reddy, Puttur Cmdr. P. G. Ramesh, Pune Cmdr. Rana, Mumbai Deepali Gupta, JIIT, Noida Dinesh Saini, BITS, Pilani G. C. Sharma, IBS, Agra G. S. Malik, DRDO, Delhi Girish Kumar, IIT, Bombay Gopal Bhushan, DRDO, Delhi H. N. Suresh, Mumbai J. L. Narayana, Andhra University K. K. Aggarwal, DU, Delhi K. Krishnamurthy, University of Cochin K. L. A. P. Sharma, S.K. University K. S. P. Rao, Anna University, Chennai M. Hariprasad, Mumbai M. V. Bhatkar, Mumbai M. V. Murlidhar, BITS, Pilani M. Vivekananda Murthy, Andhra University Mahesh Kuruba, Mumbai 9 Manjunath, Mumbai N. K. Chadha , DU, Delhi Neelam Bhalla, DRDO, Delhi Om Prakash, GNDU, Amritsar P. Bhattacharya, IIT, Bombay P. K. Saxena, DRDO, Delhi P. L. Maggu, GSBA, Ghaziabad P. S. V. Nataraj, IIT, Bombay Prabhudeva S., Mumbai Preeti Wanti Srivastava, DU, Delhi R. Anil, Mumbai R. K. Gupta, India R. K. Tuteja, M.D. University, Rohtak Raj Kumar, Baroda Rajeev Gupta, DRDO, Delhi Rajesh S. Prabhu Gaonkar, GEC, Goa S. C. Jethi, DRDO, Delhi S. K. Aggarwal, DIT, Delhi S. M. Verma, S.K.U, Kurnool S. Varadarajan, Sysnet Associates, Bangalore Sanjay Singh, Jiwaji University, Gwalior Satish Allampallewar, Mumbai Srinivas Rao, Mumbai Srinivasan, University of Madras Srivenkataramana, University of Bangalore Subburaj Ramasamy, Centre for Reliability Subhash Mahajan, GNDU, Amritsar V. K. Kapoor, N.S.I.T., Delhi V. Mariappan, GEC, Goa Secretary Ompal Singh, DU, Delhi Jt. Secretaries Sunil K. Khatri, MTIM, Delhi Kalpana Yadav, IGIT, Delhi Archana Kumar, DU, Delhi 10 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair Gargi Keeni, TCS, Kolkata Co-Chair C. K. Jaggi, DU, Delhi V. K. Sehgal, BU, Jhansi Bimal Misra, BITS, Pilani K. Mahesh, KPIT, Mumbai Members A. K. Nayyar, DRDO, Delhi A. K. Saini, DU, Delhi A. K. Vijaya, NPCIL, Mumbai Alok Mishra, NPCIL, Mumbai Alok Mittal, NSIT, Delhi Archana Kumar, DU, Delhi Ashok Chauhan, NPCIL, Mumbai B. Dattatreya Sharma, Kurnool B. R. L. Kantham, Nagarjuna University C. S. Reddy, S. V. University College , Tirupura C. V. Rao, Nagarjuna University Debashis Dutta, DRDO, Delhi Deepak Kumar, JSSATE, Noida G. Gopal, University of Madras G. Srinivas, NPCIL, Mumbai Gita Babaria, CQA Folks, Mumbai, Gopika Vinod, BARC, Mumbai H. R. Puttur, University of Durban Harish Chandra, University of Bangalore Indu Tyagi, IILM, Greater Noida K. Durga Rao, BARC, Mumbai A. K. Ghosh, BARC, Mumbai K. Srinivasa Rao, Andhra University Kamna Malik , IMT , Ghaziabad M. Krishna Reddy, Osmania University Madhu Jain, B.R.A. University, Agra Manish Tripathi, DU, Delhi Manoj Kumar, BARC, Mumbai N. J. Rajaram, Syntel Ltd., Mumbai 11 Neeta Tandan, NIC, Delhi Niloy Mitter, TISCO, Jamshedpur P. C. Saxena, JNU, Delhi P. R. Bansal, HFCL, Delhi P. R. Lakhsmi Kanthan, ISI, Delhi P. V. Varde, BARC, Mumbai R. C. Sharma, Delhi R. K. Saraf, BARC, Mumbai R. K. Tuli, R. Rastogi, BARC, Mumbai Rajee Guptan, NPCIL, Mumbai Rubina Mittal, DU, Delhi Rajashekhar, Bangalore S. K. Gupta, IIT, Delhi S. S. Bajaj, NPCIL, Mumbai S. S. Mishra, Avadh University, Faizabad S. V. Amari, USA Sanjay Aggarwal, SANMACS, Delhi Sanjit Singh , DRDO , Delhi Santosh, BARC,Mumbai Satish Kr. Goel, DU, Delhi Shrikant, DRDO, Delhi Sunil Sharma, FMS, Delhi V. Bhasin, BARC, Mumbai V. N. Patkar, MRDA, Mumbai V. V. S. Sanyasi Rao, BARC, Mumbai Veena Jain, DU, Delhi Y. Krishna Reddy, S.K. University Y. Vijay Kumar, Bangalore Secretary Amit Gupta, DU, Delhi Jt. Secretaries V. B. Singh, DU, Delhi Prashant Johri, MTIM, Delhi Sameer Anand, DU, Delhi 12 PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Editors P. K. Kapur, University of Delhi, Delhi A. K. Verma, IIT, Bombay ADDRESS FOR COMMUNICATION Prof. P. K. Kapur General Chair, ICQRIT 2006 Department of Operational Research Faculty of Mathematical Sciences New Academic Block, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India Tel:(+91-11) 27666672 (O), 27666299 (R) Fax: (+91-11) 27666672 E-mail: pkkapur1@gmail.com icqrit2006@gmail.com icqrit2006@rediffmail.com 13 REGISTRATION FORM NAME______________________________________________________ ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE___________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ E-MAIL_____________________________________________________ WHETHER SUBMITTING A PAPER? 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The interested organizations are required to send advertisement material, i.e., Art work/Negative/Positive along with payments as detailed below: (i) Inner Pages Full Page ----- US$ 500/ Rs. 10000.00 Half Page ----- US$ 350/ Rs. 6000.00 Quarter Page ----- US$ 4000.00 (ii) Outside Back Cover ----- US$ 1,500/ Rs. 25,000.00 (iii) Inside Front/Back Cover ----- US$ 1,000/ Rs. 15,000.00 200/ Rs. 15