This volume from the April 2006 conference consists of 109 papers and 21 posters on software engineering, cryptographic systems, mobile enterprise, information security, data mining, signal processing, and grid computing. The opening chapters on education explore the application of Six Sigma techniques, a model information technology curriculum, and the different work requirements of IT jobs in technical versus service companies. Other topics include a chain-oriented sensor network for data collection, overlap among major web search engines, anomaly detection in SMTP traffic, diabetic e-management systems, and a synthetic data set generator for testing information discovery systems. No subject index is provided. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
