I2TS'2006 - 5th International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium
Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil, December 06-08, 2006

The International Information and Telecommunication Technologies Symposium (I2TS'2006) at Cuiabá city,in the paradisiac Pantanal (South Amazonia), Brazil.
I2TS'2006 serves as an international forum for people from academia, industry and research labs, for presenting recent results in information and telecommunication technologies research and applications.
I2TS'2006 includes Technical Sessions, Tool Sessions, Poster Sessions and Mini-coursers.
Best papers will be invited to submit extended version to IEEE-R9 LatinAmerica and RESI magazines.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance.
Demonstration of new tools/applications are welcome.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

TELECOMMUNICATION AND WIRELESS NETWORKS
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- Mobile Ad Hoc Networks - MANETs
- Wireless Multimedia
- Telecommunication Technology
- Optical Networks and Switching
- Wireless WANs, LANs and PANs (Personal Area Networks)
- Quality of Service
- Mobile wireless network Planning, Management, Control and Monitoring
- Security and Privacy
- Applications and Case Studies

COMPUTER NETWORKS, REAL TIME AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
- Real-Time and Multimedia Systems
- Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Distributed and Mobile Computing
- Distributed Algorithms and Architectures
- Distributed Operating Systems
- Distributed Data Management
- Computer Networks
- P2P and Overlay networks
- Quality of Service
- Network Planning, Management, Control and Monitoring
- Security and Privacy
- Applications and Case Studies

DISTRIBUTED SIMULATIONS, UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
- Large Scale Distributed Interactive Simulation
- Ubiquitous Computing (architectures, systems, human-computer interaction)
- Context aware computing
- Web-Based Systems (architectures, programming models, tools etc)
- Semantic web and ontologies
- Embedded Systems
- Criminal in the Internet and Electronic Justice
- Tools for Computational Forensic
- Applications and Case Studies
- Collaborative Virtual Environments
(Synchronization, Extensibility, Persistency, Interoperability, Scalability, Adaptability, Security)

Authors of regular papers should submit the papers to JEMS (earlier brazilian EDAS)
at https://submissoes.sbc.org.br/i2ts2006.

The papers should be submitted in electronic form (PDF only).
Full papers should be written in English (or in Portuguese)
and should not exceed 8 pages (see 'Instruction for Authors in the web page).
For researches in progress, short papers can be submitted and should not exceed 4 pages.
The English papers will be published in hard copy;
and the full proceedings (with papers in Portuguese) will be published in CD-ROM
- both with the same ISBN number.

TOOL SESSIONS and POSTER SESSIONS
Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing tools suitable for on-line demonstration.
Standard microcomputers will be available for tool sessions.
The tool and poster papers (extended abstracts - 2 pages) will undergo a regular review process
and will be published in the conference proceedings in a dedicated tool and poster sessions, respectively.

MINI-COURSES
Proposals for half-day or full-day MiniCourses are solicited on timely topics related to the above areas.
The proposal must include description and biographies.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper/Poster/Tool Submission Deadline: EXTENDED October 22th, 2006
Authors Notification: November 18th, 2006
Camera Ready/Paper Registration: November 25th, 2006

SPONSORED BY
UFSC-INE - Federal University of Santa Catarina
UNIVAG - Varzea Grande University
BARDDAL - Barddal University
CEFET-MT - Federal Technical Center
IEEE-R9 - IEEE Region9 - LatinAmerica