Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems

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.

Autorentext
Yishai Feldman received his PhD from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1986. He was a faculty member at Tel Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. He is now at the IBM Research lab in Haifa, Israel, where he leads research on tools for program understanding and transformation.

Klappentext

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, NGITS 2009, held in Haifa, Israel, in June 2009.

The 14 revised full papers presented together with two keynote lectures and one invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on middleware and integration, modeling, healthcare/biomedical, service and information management, and applications.

Inhalt
Keynote Lectures.- Searching in the Real World.- Structured Data on the Web.- Middleware and Integration.- Worldwide Accessibility to Yizkor Books.- Biomedical Information Integration Middleware for Clinical Genomics.- Modeling.- Interpretation of History Pseudostates in Orthogonal States of UML State Machines.- System Grokking A Novel Approach for Software Understanding, Validation, and Evolution.- Refactoring of Statecharts.- Healthcare/Biomedical.- Towards Health 2.0: Mashups to the Rescue.- Semantic Warehousing of Diverse Biomedical Information.- InEDvance: Advanced IT in Support of Emergency Department Management.- Service and Information Management.- Enhancing Text Readability in Damaged Documents.- ITRA under Partitions.- Short and Informal Documents: A Probabilistic Model for Description Enrichment.- Applications.- Towards a Pan-European Learning Resource Exchange Infrastructure.- Performance Improvement of Fault Tolerant CORBA Based Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) with an Autonomous Agent.- A Platform for LifeEvent Development in a eGovernment Environment: The PLEDGE Project.- Online Group Deliberation for the Elicitation of Shared Values to Underpin Decision Making.