Sinopsis
The 5th Conference of the Euro-American Association on Telematics and Information Systems (EATIS.org) will be held in Panama City from September 22 to 24th. EATIS 2010 has the goal of promoting the academic and research collaboration among European and American continent universities. This edition is organized in conjunction with the Technological University of Panama and sponsored by the National Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation (SENACYT), under the slogan "A Channel for Academic Collaboration and Research ".
It is the first time that an EATIS.org Conference is carried out in a Central American country and, in this opportunity it has the Panama Canal as its scenery, which celebrated 10 years of 100% Panamanian administration, on August 2010.
An important objective of the conference is the dissemination of knowledge and experiences, primarily, in the main topics of the conference. Particularly, EATIS 2010 purpose is to promote the exchange of knowledge related to the state of the art, in the associated themes, to generate key guidelines of investigation for researchers and new research teams. Another important aspect is the search of innovation strategies, understood as one of the initial phases in the process of research and business. EATIS 2010 conference constitutes an excellent opportunity for academic and professional updating of the participants as well as to promote the consolidation of projects, researches, collaborations and businesses among academic institutions, institutes of investigation and technology businesses, from the region and from the remainder of America and Europe.
The Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and the IEEE & IEEE Computer Society have both renewed EATIS.org in Technical Collaboration Protocols, in addition, the Colombian Society of Computing (SC2o) recognizes and endorses the conference.
EATIS 2010 is structured around technical sessions, workshops and talks from invited speakers from the international community. The proccedings record the contributions of 50 papers, 37 of them publised as full papers and 13 as short papers. These papers are selected out of 102 submissions from 16 different countries, incluiding Panama. Each of the selected papers was evaluated by at least 3 reviewers. We are extremely pleased with the quality of the selected papers and we would like to thank all the Authors, Scientific Committee, Sponsors and Local Committee for their interest in the conference, helping us to make a successful EATIS 2010. Finally, we thank all participants of the conference, who make this event possible.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Gisela T. de Clunie, General Chair
Dr. Carlos Medina, Program Committee Chair
Dr. Eduardo Carrillo, Proceedings Chair
Dr. Rogério P. C. do Nascimento, General Co-chair
Dr. Clifton E. Clunie B., Program Committee Co-chair
Dr. Humberto Álvarez, Program Committee Co-chair