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.

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.