As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented it is
easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and because of this advances
in one discipline may be transmitted to others. Presentation of recent results obtained in
different disciplines encourages this interchange for the advancement of FGIT as a whole. Of
particular interest are hybrid solutions that c- bine ideas taken from multiple disciplines in
order to achieve something more signi- cant than the sum of the individual parts. Through such
hybrid philosophy a new principle can be discovered which has the propensity to propagate
throughout mul- faceted disciplines. FGIT 2009 was the first mega-conference that attempted to
follow the above idea of hybridization in FGIT in a form of multiple events related to
particular disciplines of IT conducted by separate scientific committees but coordinated in
order to expose the most important contributions. It included the following international
conferences: Advanced Software Engineering and Its Applications (ASEA) Bio-Science and
Bio-Technology (BSBT) Control and Automation (CA) Database Theory and Application (DTA) D-
aster Recovery and Business Continuity (DRBC published independently) Future G- eration
Communication and Networking (FGCN) that was combined with Advanced Communication and
Networking (ACN) Grid and Distributed Computing (GDC) M- timedia Computer Graphics and
Broadcasting (MulGraB) Security Technology (SecTech) Signal Processing Image Processing and
Pattern Recognition (SIP) and u- and e-Service Science and Technology (UNESST).
