SIG KM NEWSLETTER Issue February 2006 Newsletter of the German Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management www.fgwm.de Subscribe or unsubscribe via http://www.fgwm.de Send contributions to: fgwm'at'wi2.uni-trier.de TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Wahlergebnis Leitungsgremium FG WM (in German) 2. Second Call for Papers: 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2006) 3. Second Call for Workshop Proposals: 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR 2006) 4. Call for Papers: 4th Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2006) 5. Call for Papers: 6th Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006) 6. Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2007) ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... Ergebnis der Wahl zur Leitung der Fachgruppe Wissensmanagement Alle Kandidaten sind einstimmig gewählt. Damit besteht das Leitungsgremium nun aus folgenden Personen: Ulrich Reimer (Sprecher) Ralph Bergmann (stellvertretender Sprecher) Mirjam Minor Bodo Rieger Gerhard Schwabe Steffen Staab York Sure ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ------------------------------------------------------------------- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ECCBR 2006 Ölüdeniz/Fethiye, Turkey 4-7 September 2006 http://2006.eccbr.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: 13 February 2006 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ECCBR 2006 is the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning following a series of successful European conferences/workshops. This four-day conference will be held in the conference center of the Lykiaworld Resort hotel in Ölüdeniz/Fethiye, Turkey. The ECCBR Industry Day starts the program, followed on the second day by workshops devoted to specific areas of interest to the CBR community. The remaining two days feature invited talks, presentations and posters on both theoretical and applied research in CBR. Announcements concerning these events will be posted at the website. Submission Topics ----------------- The ECCBR 2006 Program Committee invites submissions of original research and application papers on all aspects of Case-Based Reasoning. We especially encourage submissions on new areas. Example submission areas include, but are not limited to: * Case and knowledge representation, acquisition, modeling, visualization, maintenance and management for CBR * CBR system design issues (e.g., indexing, retrieval, similarity assessment, and adaptation) * System architectures and integration of CBR with other methods * Collaborative agent architectures involving CBR * Learning and knowledge acquisition for CBR knowledge containers * Analogical reasoning, cognitive models, and creative reasoning approaches based on CBR * Formal, empirical, and psychological evaluations of CBR models and systems * Methodologies for developing and maintaining CBR applications * Lazy- (case/instance/memory-based) learning methods * Case-based approaches to planning, scheduling, design and robot navigation * Applications of CBR (e.g., in customer support, education, electronic commerce, pattern recognition, image processing, legal reasoning, manufacturing and medicine) * Human Computer Interaction: Adaptive interfaces, user modeling, customization and personalization using CBR * CBR-related areas (e.g., corporate memories, decision support, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, data mining, knowledge and experience management, software reuse and engineering redesign) * Computer models of case-based argumentation * Intelligent tutoring systems teaching or employing CBR * Explanations and CBR * Context and CBR * Peer-to-Peer Networks and CBR * CBR in the Semantic Web Papers may be accepted for presentation as talks, or as posters. Proceedings ----------- All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html). Important Dates --------------- February 13, 2006 Paper Submission Deadline March 30, 2006 Acceptance notification April 25, 2006 Camera-ready copy due Conference Chairs ----------------- Mehmet H. Göker, PwC (mehmet.goker at us.pwc.com) Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, DFKI (trb at dfki.uni-kl.de) Local Chair ----------- H. Altay Güvenir, Bilkent University (guvenir at cs.bilkent.edu.tr) Workshop Chair -------------- Mirjam Minor, University of Trier (minor at uni-trier.de) Industry Day Chair ------------------- Bill Cheetham, General Electric (cheetham at crd.ge.com) Review Criteria --------------- Submissions must be identified as either *research* or *application* papers and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to their category. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review criteria for application papers will include practical or economic significance, potential to lead to more powerful technology, technical quality, and clarity. Submission Procedure -------------------- Authors must submit a full paper plus a title page by the submission date. The title page must include: name(s) of the author(s); address, phone number, fax number and email of the contact person; title and abstract of the paper; a set of keywords; a statement whether the submission is to be reviewed as a research paper or an application paper. The title page, the abstract and the text of the paper must be submitted electronically through the ECCBR web site. You will find details there in due time. Submission Format ----------------- Papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 15 pages. Authors instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All authors of accepted papers must transfer their copyrights to Springer. Multiple Submission Policy -------------------------- Papers submitted to other conferences or journals must state this fact on the title page. If a paper will appear in another conference or journal, it must be withdrawn from ECCBR2006 before March 30, 2006. This restriction does not apply to papers appearing in proceedings of specialized workshops. Author Registration Policy -------------------------- In order for a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the deadline for camera-ready copy (April 25, 2006). Program Committee Members ------------------------- * Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway * David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory, USA * Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada * Vincent Aleven, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Ethem Alpaydin, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey * Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany * Josep Lluís Arcos, IIIACSIC, Spain * Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Brigitte Bartsch-Spoerl, BSR Consulting, Germany * Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany * Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, USA * Enrico Blanzieri, University of Trento, Italy * L. Karl Branting, LiveWire Logic, Inc * Derek Bridge, University College Cork, Ireland * Stefanie Bruninghaus, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA * Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany * Bill Cheetham, General Electric Co. NY, USA * Susan Craw, Robert Gordon University, Scotland * Michael T. Cox, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, USA * Pádraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland * Belén Díaz-Agudo, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain * Kurt D. Fenstermacher, University of Arizona, USA * Peter Funk, Malardalens University, Sweden * Ashok Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Andrew Golding, Lycos Inc, USA * Pedro A. Gonzalez Calero, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain * Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Uni. do Vale do Itajai, Brazil * Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada * David Leake, Indiana University, USA * Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, IIIACSIC, Spain * Michel Manago, Kaidara, France * Cynthia R. Marling, Ohio University, USA * Lorraine McGinty, University College Dublin, Ireland * Bruce McLaren, CMU, USA * David McSherry, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland * Erica Melis, Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany * Mirjam Minor, University of Trier, Germany * Stefania Montani, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy * Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University, USA * Bart Netten, Delft University, The Netherlands * David Patterson University of Ulster, Northern Ireland * Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied CS, Germany * Enric Plaza, IIIACSIC, Spain * Luigi Portinale, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy * Alun Preece, University of Aberdeen, UK * Lisa S. Purvis, Xerox Corporation, NY, USA * Francesco Ricci, ITC-irst, Italy * Michael M. Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany * Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, USA * Rainer Schmidt, Universitat Rostock, Germany * Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland * Raja Sooriamurthi, Indiana University, USA * Armin Stahl DFKI, Germany * Jerzy Surma, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland * Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland * Brigitte Trousse, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France * Ian Watson, AI-CBR, University of Auckland, New Zealand * Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA * Stefan Wess, empolis, Germany * David C. Wilson, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA * Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University, Scotland * Qiang Yang, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ECCBR 2006 Ölüdeniz/Fethiye, Turkey 4-7 September 2006 http://2006.eccbr.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- ECCBR 2006 Workshops: The organising committee of the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ECCBR 2006 invites proposals for the Workshop program. Workshops will be held on 5 September 2006 in the Lykiaworld Resort Hotel in Ölüdeniz/Fethiye, Turkey. General Information: ECCBR 2006 workshops will provide an informal setting in which participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active cross-fertilization of ideas. Workshops that explore interactions between sub-areas of CBR, focus on unique or interdisciplinary applications of CBR, and investigate newly evolving areas of CBR are particularly encouraged. Workshops will last about 4 hours. The format and content of each workshop will largely be determined by each workshop organizing committee although "mini-conference" proposals are discouraged. To stimulate interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, ample time should be allotted in each workshop for general discussion. As in past conferences, a time slot of about 20 minutes each will be provided for the presentation of workshop summaries to all conference attendants during the main conference. These summaries should be presented by (one of) each workshop's organizers. Each workshop organizing committee will be responsible for: 1. Producing a Call for Participation for their workshop. It should clarify the process by which the organizing committee will review and select the papers and presentations. In addition, the submission procedure, format, and dates should be included, and be in accordance with the dates listed below; 2. Review and select presentations and papers; 3. Edit their workshop's notes and send them to the workshop coordinator (contact details below) in accordance with the dates listed. ECCBR 2006 will provide: * A meeting place for the workshop. * Printing of the workshop notes. Important Dates for Workshops: February 20, 2006 Deadline for workshop proposal submission March 14, 2006 Notification of acceptance for workshop proposals May 15, 2006 Suggested deadline for workshop paper submission June 16, 2006 Notification of acceptance for workshop papers July 14, 2006 Final camera ready copies to be received by workshop organizers August 4, 2006 Final camera ready copies for each workshop to be received by workshop coordinator September 5, 2006 Workshops held at ECCBR 2006 (in parallel) Submission of Workshop Proposals Members from all areas of the CBR and related communities are invited to submit workshop proposals for review. Workshop proposals should provide sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the topic, the goals of the workshop, and the size of the interested community. Proposals should identify one or more chairs and a program committee. An example layout for a proposal can be found at the end of this call. Proposals should be 2-4 pages and contain the following information: * Proposed title of the workshop. * Contact information for the proposer, including the names, postal * addresses, phone numbers, and email address. * A brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the workshop * goals and the technical issues that will be its focus. * A brief discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. * A draft call for papers. * A preliminary workshop agenda and schedule for the workshop. This should * include a brief description of how the organizers intend to conduct the * workshop (e.g., discussions, panel discussions, paper presentations, * invited talks or other types of communication). * If available, a list of interested participants or groups. If a similar * workshops were held in the past, include information about received * submissions and attendance. * Intended means of advertising the workshop. * Contact information, including the names, postal addresses, phone numbers, * and email addresses (if available) of the proposed workshop organizing * committee. This committee should consist of three or four people * knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. Ideally, these * people should not be from the same institution. Workshop proposals should be submitted via e-mail. Please forward an electronic copy in pdf format as soon as possible but no later than February 20, 2006 to the workshop coordinator: eccbr06-ws-org@dfki.uni-kl.de (Subject: ECCBR 2006 Workshop Proposal) Proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and prospective organizers will be notified of their decision no later than March 14, 2006. Other Information Workshop papers should be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 10 pages. Authors' instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Any special audio-visual requirements and special room requirements must be arranged with the workshop coordinator (Mirjam Minor) by July 14, 2006. ECCBR reserves the right to cancel any workshop if deadlines are missed, if too few submissions are received, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support the costs of holding it. In special cases, the ECCBR organizing committee may suggest the consolidation of workshops, to prevent the need for cancellation. To cover costs, it may be necessary to charge workshop participants a workshop fee in addition to the normal ECCBR 2006 conference registration fee. Please, note that all workshop participants must register for the conference, and that the workshops must be open to all registered participants of ECCBR 2006. Contact Please send proposals and further inquiries to: Mirjam Minor Lehrstuhl Wirtschaftsinformatik II University of Trier Phone: +49 (651) 201 - 3883 Fax: +49 (651) 201 - 3396 Email: eccbr06-ws-org@dfki.uni-kl.de ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... PAIS 2006 4th Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems a sub-conference of ECAI 2006 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (http://ecai2006.itc.it/) RIVA DEL GARDA, Italy, August 28th - September 1st 2006 IMPORTANT DATES 8 Feb Deadline for paper summaries 10 Feb Deadline for paper submission 10 March Deadline for poster submission 10 April Notification of acceptance for papers and posters 20 April Deadline for demonstration proposals 10 May Camera-ready copies of papers 28 Aug Technical programme at PAIS 2006 This event is created to specifically highlight significant successful applications of intelligent system technology. The purpose of the event is to provide a forum for industry practitioners to learn about the power and applicability of selected intelligent system techniques and share experience on the applicability, development and deployment of intelligent systems in industry. This will be the largest showcase in Europe of real applications using intelligent system technology and the ideal place to meet with those working to make successful intelligent system based applications. The Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems event will present papers describing successful applications of intelligent systems. Although associated with ECAI, it has a separate review process conducted by experts in the application of intelligent system technologies. Papers are selected to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of value to other developers. Submitted papers should make these points clear. Accepted papers will be published in a special section of the ECAI 2006 proceedings. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Paper submissions to PAIS 2006 should be made electronically and will follow exactly the same format and procedure as ECAI 2006. Additionally PAIS submissions should be clearly marked as a submission to PAIS on the first page. Do not submit papers directly to the PAIS programme committee. Submission details are available at: http://ecai2006.itc.it SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS In addition to the selected paper and poster presentations we want to stress that ECAI and PAIS 2006 will include system demonstrations. The aim is to provide AI researchers with an opportunity to show their research in action, but also to make their research accessible to other AI researchers, to the broader scientific community, to industry, and to the public at large. We especially hope that authors of papers accepted for presentation at the conference technical program and will be able to demonstrate their research. To present a system demonstration, however, the authors must still submit a specific system demonstration proposal conforming to the requirements by the demonstration program deadline. Submission details are available at: http://ecai2006.itc.it PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Mugur Tatar (Chair) DaimlerChrysler AG, Research and Technology, DE Mugur.Tatar@DaimlerChyrsler.com Josep-Lluis Arcos, CSIC, ES Joachim Baumeister, University Würzburg, DE Riccardo Bellazzi, Universita' di Pavia, IT Bertrand Braunschweig, Institut Francais du Petrole, FR Pádraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin, IRL Floriana Eposito, Universia' degli Studi, IT Boi Faltings, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausane, CH Gerhard Fleischanderl, Siemens, AT Oliviero Stock, ITC-irst, IT Kilian Stoffel, KID, CH Louise Trave-Massuyes, LAAS-CNRS, FR Franz Wotawa, Techn.Universität Graz, AT ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... CALL FOR PAPERS 6th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM´2006 July 14-15, 2006, Leipzig/Germany The Aim of the Conference This conference is the sixth conference in a series of industrial conferences on Data Mining that will be held on yearly basis. Experts from different fields will present their applications and the results obtained by applying data mining. Besides that, newcomers in the field can get a fast introduction to Data Mining by taking the tutorial running in connection with the conference. In a problem/solution hour you will have the opportunity to present your application and ask for support by others or for cooperation in solving the problem. Program Committee Chair Petra Perner, IBaI Leipzig, Germany Andrea Ahlemeyer-Stubbe, ECDM, Gengenbach, Germany Committee Klaus-Peter Adlassnig, Medical University of Vienna, Austria Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany Chid Apte, IBM Yorktown Heights, USA Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, USA Leon Bobrowski, Bialystok Technical University, Poland Marc BoullÃ, ©France Télécom, France Da Deng, University of Otago, New Zealand Peter Funk, Mälardalen University, Sweden Ron Kenett, KPA Ltd., Israel Stefania Montani, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Eric Pauwels, CWI Utrecht, The Netherlands Rainer Schmidt, University of Rostock, Germany Stijn Viaene, KU Leuven, Belgium Rob A. Vingerhoeds, Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tarbes, France An industrial exhibition running in connection with the conference will give you the opportunity to look at new trends and systems in industry and to present your research to industry. Paper submission Paper submissions should be related but not limited to any of the following topics: Applications of Data Mining in ... * Marketing * Medicine * E-Commerce (Mining Logfiles) * Biotechnology * Quality Management * Multimedia Data (Image, Video, Text, Signals) * Web-Mining * Intrusion Detection in Networks * Case-Based Reasoning * Clustering * Classification & Prediction * Association Rules * Telecommunication * Deviation and Novelty Detection Authors can submit their paper in long or short version. Long Paper The paper must be formatted in the Springer LNCS format. They should have at most 15 pages. The papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Accepted long papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNAI Series in the book Advances in Data Mining, edited by Petra Perner. Short Paper Short papers are also welcome and can be used to describe work in progress or project ideas. They should have not more than 5 pages, formatted in Springer LNCS format. Accepted short papers will be presented as poster in the poster session. They will be published in a special poster proceedings book. Please submit your paper electronically through the COMMENCE conference management system. First Step: Registration In order to submit a paper, you must register and create an account on the system. Notice that this is NOT the registration to the conference! Please fill out the registration form. Afterwards, you will receive your password via email. Sign Up for an Account! Next Step: Submitting your Paper After successful registration you will be able to access the system using your username and the password that you have obtained by email. After successful login, the system will provide you with a submission page where you can register your paper submission and make appropriate changes to previous submissions. If you have problems with the system, please contact via email info@ibai-institut.de. Deadlines Submission of papers: 12. 02. 2006 Notification of acceptance: 22. 03. 2006 Submission of camera-ready copy: 06. 04. 2006 For the latest news as well as for the program of the previous ICDM and the publications within ICDM look at http://www.data-mining-forum.de. ......................................................................... *sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm*sigkm* ......................................................................... IJCAI-07 CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 6-12 January, 2007 Hyderabad, India www.ijcai-07.org Theme: Artificial Intelligence and Its Benefits to Society… The IJCAI-07 program will include workshops, tutorials, and oral and poster presentations of technical papers. The theme of the conference, Artificial Intelligence and Its Benefits to Society, has been chosen to enable the understanding of the existing and potential contributions of artificial AI research and development to the quality of life. The program will include panels and invited talks on the theme. ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS, details at www.ijcai07.org/ Submissions are invited on significant, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of artificial intelligence. Technical papers, not to exceed six pages, will be accepted for oral or poster presentation, in one of twelve major areas, namely, constraint satisfaction, control learning, learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, planning and scheduling, robotics, search, uncertainty, web/information retrieval/data mining, and other. Authors are fully responsible to follow the complete submission details in terms of format, anonimity, and originality. Important Dates: June 23, 2006 - Electronic abstract submission deadline June 30, 2006 - Electronic paper submission deadline September 18, 2006 - Paper notifications sent October 16, 2006 - Camera-ready copy due January 9-12, 2007 - IJCAI-07 Technical program ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS, details at www.ijcai07.org/call_tutorial_proposal.html Tutorial proposals are invited, serving one or more of the following objectives: (i) introduce novices to major topics of AI; (ii) introduce expert non specialists to an AI subarea; (iii) motivate and explain a topic of emerging importance for AI; (iv) survey a mature area of AI research and/or practice; (v) provide instruction in established but specialized AI methodologies; (vi) present a novel synthesis combining distinct lines of AI work. Recommendations of topics or presenters are welcome to the Tutorial Chair, tutorials07@ijcai.org. Important Dates: April 7, 2006 - Proposal submission deadline May 5, 2006 - Acceptance notification October 27, 2006 - Syllabus and course handouts January 6-8, 2007 - IJCAI-07 Tutorials ------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS, details at www.ijcai07.org/call_workshop.html Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications, are particularly encouraged. Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of five pages in length, and, in addition to all the complete contact information for the organizers, it should contain: (i) a technical description of the workshop, including the workshop goals; (ii) the reason of interest of the topic; (iii) a draft workshop agenda and an organizing schedule; (iv) if available, a list of tentatively confirmed attendees; (v) a list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any, and their relation to the proposed workshop. Important Dates: May 2, 2006 - Proposal submission deadline June 2, 2006 - Acceptance notification September 25, 2006 - Submission of papers to workshops October 23, 2006 - Workshop paper acceptance notification November 15, 2006 - Final complete workshop notes deadline January 6-8, 2007 - IJCAI-07 Workshops --------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chair Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Spanish Council for Scientific Research confchair07@ijcai.org Program Chair Manuela M. Veloso Carnegie Mellon University pcchair07@ijcai.org Workshops Chair Carles Sierra Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Spanish National Research Council workshops07@ijcai.org Tutorials Chair Cynthia Lynn Breazeal Massachusetts Institute of Technology tutorials07@ijcai.org Local Arrangements Committee-07 (LAC) Secretariat Vijaya Sekhar K S, Asst. 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