Held in Croatia in August 2006, the EUROMICRO conference drew together academics, researchers, and business people specializing in various aspects of information technology. This proceedings volume contains 55 papers that were presented there. They focus on three main areas: component-based software engineering; multimedia and telecommunications; and software process and product improvement. The volume concludes with several papers from a special session on the next generation of Web computing. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)