WFCS 2006 is undertaking a special effort to attract submissions from research domains that are tightly intertwined with industrial communication systems, or which have requirements similar to factory automation networks.
Those research domains include, but are not limited to:
| Information Technology (ITech) | Martin Wollschlaeger, Stavros Koubias |
| Industrial Security issues (ISec) | Dacfey Dzung, Thilo Sauter |
| Wireless Communication (WlCom) | Andreas Willig, Stefano Vitturi, Stavros Koubias | Automotive Networks (AutNw) | Lucia Lo Bello, Françoise Simonot-Lion | Building Automation Networks (BANw) | Wolfgang Kastner, Klaus Kabitzsch |
| Embedded Systems (EmbSys) | Luis Almeida, Yvon Trinquet |
| Fault-Tolerant Communication (FTCom) | Juan Pimentel, Julian Proenza |
| Performance Evaluation issues (Perf) | Nicolas Navet, Guy Juanole |
| Industrial Ethernet (IndEth) | Max Felser, Juergen Jasperneite |
| Formal Methods (Form) | Riccardo Sisto |
Prospective authors are encouraged to directly contact the above PC-members, which act as contact person for each of the specific research domains.