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The following topics are dealt with: artificial intelligence; automated software engineering; bioinformatics; scientific computing; biomedical engineering; compilers; interpreters; computational intelligence; computer animation; computer architecture; VLSI; information systems; computer based education; computer games; digital systems; distributed systems; parallel processing; e-commerce; e-governance; event driven programming; expert systems; human computer interaction; image processing; information retrieval; embedded systems; Internet; Web application; knowledge data engineering; virtual reality; mobile computing; multimedia applications; computer modeling; natural language processing; computer networks; neural networks; computer security; computer simulation; pattern recognition; computer vision; performance evaluation; computer aided design; programming languages; computing ethics; robotics; control systems; cryptography; data communication; software engineering; system security; data compression; data encryption; data mining; digital library; wireless sensor networks; ubiquitous computing; technology management.