This conference and workshop discuss a wide range of problems encountered in present and future computing technologies. SNPD and SAWN examines the advanced state of the art in software engineering, artificial intelligence, networking, parallel/distributed computing, and self-assembling wireless networks. SNPD 2006 explores key technology enabling areas including software/requirements engineering, software architecture, software testing, cryptography and network security, Internet technology, communication systems and networks, mobile/wireless/ad hoc networks, visual and multimedia computing, image, speech, and signal processing, data mining and knowledge discovery, voice-over-IP, web and e-commerce modeling and applications, e-learning, natural language processing, and neural networks.