Message from the Program Chairs

The papers in this volume were presented at the 2006 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT2006), held in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A., January 23-27, 2006. The technical papers were selected from 99 submissions, of which 41 were accepted. Of the 41, 33 were accepted as regular papers and the remaining 8 as short papers. The thematic topics range from: Flow Control and Analysis; Application Technology; Architecture and Network Systems; Communications and Configurations; Pervasive, Mobile and Embedded Systems; Implementation, Protocols, and Routing; Search, Allocation, and Verification techniques; QoS, Algorithms, and VoIP; Design, Ontologies, and Data Mining; and IPv6, Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks. These topics cover the underpinnings of Internet Applications and emerging technologies.