The international conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA) 2006 was hosted by the College of Arts, Media and Technology (CAMT), Chiang Mai University in Thailand, to provide a platform to support  fast development of in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The theme of the conference focused on the management of Software, Knowledge and Information in a broad range of applications. These areas have recently emerged as hot topics with great academic interests and commercial applications.

SKIMA 2006 proceedings were divided into eight sections and they were organized by conference theme, application type or areas and consisted of refereed scientific papers. Each paper was reviewed by at least two members of the International Program and conference organizing committees.

The eight sections were – Product Life Cycle and Supply Chain Applications; Knowledge Management; Software Development and Testing; Information System; Security and Risk Assessment Applications; Fuzzy Logic Applications; Data Mining Applications and Modern-heuristic for Optimization Applications and altogether 31 research papers were selected and published.