Message from the Technical Program Chairs

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It is with distinct pleasure that we welcome you to the 9th International Conference in Information Technology (ICIT 2006) in the temple city, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. Over the last nine years, ICIT has evolved into a leading international conference in the region where eminent researchers around the world converge to share their research results with the community. For the first time in ICIT, we have arranged the conference track-wise. The conference consists of six different tracks: (1) Bioinformatics and Computational Biology; (2) Communication Networks and Protocols; (3) Language Processing; (4) Security, Content Protection, and Digital Rights Management; (5) Databases, Information Warehousing and Data Mining; and (6) Application Specific Software and Hardware Systems. Moreover, this will be a memorable year for ICIT, since ICIT received in cooperation status from the IEEE and the IEEE-Computer Society and the conference proceedings is being published by IEEE Computer Society for the first time. ICIT is a premier international conference and forum for high-quality research in the area of Information Technology. Researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry present their research findings on various topics related to Information Technology and its applications at ICIT. Almost for a decade, ICIT has been a unique forum promoting multidisciplinary and visionary research in the area of Information Technology and its applications. ICIT 2006 had very good response in terms of paper submission. The submissions were received from all parts of the globe, including US, India, China, Pakistan, Iran, UK, Taiwan, Nepal, Bangladesh, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, France, and Korea. Due to space limitation in the proceedings, we could only accept a limited number of high-quality papers. We received a total of 231 submissions, out of which 83 papers appeared in the proceedings after the peer review process. All submitted papers had undergone double-blind review by a strong team of reviewers and Program Committee members consisting of leading researchers around the globe. We wish to express our appreciation to the track chairs, dedicated members of the Technical Program Committee, and additional reviewers. We also thank the authors, keynote speakers, invited speakers, and tutorial speakers for their contributions to an outstanding technical program. Special thanks to the Steering Committee and Organizing Committee of ICIT for their support and cooperation. We acknowledge the quality work of Stephanie Kawada, Conference Publishing Services, IEEE Computer Society. We wish you a very productive ICIT 2006 Conference and hope you will find the proceedings to be a valuable source of reference for your ongoing and future research. We hope your days at ICIT 2006 and stay at Bhubaneswar, the historic temple city, will be an enriching and enjoyable experience.