Overview

  It may be said that modern information technology rests on three technology pillars: semiconductor   technology,  communications technology, and information processing software technology. During the past   two decades  there have been tremendous advances in all three pillars and their unrelenting convergence that   have brought  us significantly closer to the realization of the long-envisioned dream of an information society in   which anyone  can access the cumulative knowledge of the mankind inexpensively from anywhere at any time,   namely that of a  ubiquitous information age. The aim of the Fifth International Conference on  Ubiquitous   Information  Management and Communication is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information,   for cultivating  opportunities for collaborative research, and for fostering friendship among researchers in key   technology  hotbeds in the Asia Pacific region engaged in various facets of information management and   communications  technologies appropriate for ubiquitous computing and application environments.