Information technology is a rapidly changing field in which researchers and devel- ers must
continuously set their vision on the next generation of technologies and the systems that they
enable. The Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems (NGITS) series of conferences
provides a forum for presenting and discussing the latest advances in information technology.
NGITS conferences are international events held in Israel previous conferences have taken
place in 1993 1995 1997 1999 2002 and 2006. In addition to 14 reviewed papers the
conference featured two keynote lectures and an invited talk by notable experts. The selected
papers may be classified roughly in five broad areas: - Middleware and Integration - Modeling -
Healthcare Biomedical - Service and Information Management - Applications NGITS 2009 also
included a demonstration session and an industrial track focusing on how to make software
development more efficient by cutting expenses with techn- ogy and infrastructures. This event
is the culmination of efforts by many talented and dedicated individuals.
