General Chair´s message

The Sixth International Conference on Information Technology (ITCC 2005) has witnessed tremendous growth in size and quality since its humble beginning in April 2000. The Steering Committee and the Program Committee formulated the theme of the conference and directed the formation of the tracks. The Track Chairs, who formed the Program Committee, worked hard in soliciting papers and organizing the refereeing process. They were very successful in soliciting high quality papers in topical areas. This year we received a total of 524 submissions. Each track had a panel of referees and each paper was refereed by at least two independent referees. This year the emphasis was on quality and, on the basis of referee reports, 260 papers were selected as full papers and 30 were selected as poster papers. The international nature of the conference is reflected in the geographical diversity of the authors. The selected papers include authors from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, UK, and USA. The conference features two distinguished keynote speakers and the best student paper award.