Welcome to ICPS 2006

1. Welcome to ICPS 2006 June 26-29, 2006 Lyon, France

2. Welcome to France ! Required dressing attitude for tomorrow (France-Spain)

3. Tomorrow : special day Required dressing attitude for tomorrow (France – Spain)

4. Welcome to Lyon • Listed in UNESCO World heritage

5. Thanks to our sponsors

6. Thanks to the organizing staff • Tutorial ChairKun Yang, University of Essex, UKWorkshop ChairClaudia Roncancio, IMAG, FrancePublicity ChairsKhalil Drira, LAAS-CNRS, France Proceedings Chair : Kelly Sutton, Univ. Of Arizona, USA Steering CommitteeSalim Hariri, Univ. of Arizona, USAVana Kalogeraki, University of California, USAWalid Najjar, Univ. of California, Riverside, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers Univ., USAFabrice Saffre, BT Pervasive ICT Research Center, UKMazin Yousif, Intel Corporation, USA • + all local Organizers

7. Thanks to ICPS06 PC members Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Frederique Laforest, INSA Lyon, France Sylvain Lecomte, University of Valenciennes, France Antonio Liotta, University of Essex, UK Aad van Moorsel,University of Newcastle, UK Gianluca Moro, Universiy of Bologna, Italy Martin S. Olivier, University of Pretoria, South Africa Evaggelia Pitoura, Univ. of Ioannina, Greece Philippe Pucheral, INRIA, France Rami Rifaieh, SDSC, USA Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Kamil Sarac, University of Dallas, USA Tony Shan, Wachovia Bank, USA Genoveva Vargas Solar, CNRS, France Hongbing Wang, Southeast University, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Arkady Zaslavsky, Monash University, Australia • Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA • Jalal Almhana, University Moncton, Canada • Dawit Bekele, University of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia • Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon, France • Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA • Augusto Celentano, University Ca'Foscari, Italy • Panos K. Chrysanthis, University of Pittsburgh, USA • Giorgio Da Bormida, HP-BEST European Innovation Centre, USA • Alex Delis, Univ. of Athens, Greece • Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece • Ozgur Ercetin, Sabanci University, Turkey • Xiaohui Gu, IBM, USA • Gunter Haring, University of Vienna, Austria • Ian Henning, University of Essex, UK • Karin Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria • Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, USA

8. Conference schedule • Available in your bags • 3 days main conference • 1 day of workshops

9. 3 days of conference : 3 events • Today : welcoming party in hotel de ville of Lyon • Walking tour of old Lyon • Night boat cruise

10. Enjoy the conference !