(editors)

This is the third year that the annual Computer Science Annual Workshop (CSAW ’05) is being organised. Every year, the organisers try to improve the workshop in some way and this year it was decided that the workshop should reach out beyond the departmental boundaries. This is being done by means of the introduction of foreign speakers, speakers from prominent local companies and a government representative. In our opinion, such speakers can provide a stronger context for our research and also possibly inspire departmental researchers to take up projects which are relevant to the industries represented by the speakers and the business community in general. Another addition to the workshop involves the introduction of an undergraduate short-paper com-petition whereby undergraduates can put an idea (founded on some basic research) to paper and present it in the workshop. This is meant to introduce undergraduate students to research at an early stage in their education. We would like to thank departmental staff and research students who took time out of their summer to provide material for the workshop. Thanks are also due to GO Mobile for sponsoring the workshop, Gordon Pace, Joseph Cordina and Sandro Spina who organised the previous two workshops and who’s help proved invaluable for CSAW ’05, and ITSA who contributed their tim