The book provides comprehensive and cognitive approach to building and deploying sophisticated information systems. The book utilizes non-linear optimization techniques, fuzzy logic, and rough sets to model various real-world use cases for the digital era. The hybrid information system modeling handles both qualitative and quantitative data and can effectively handle uncertainty and imprecision in the data. The combination of non-linear optimization mechanisms, fuzzy logic, and rough sets provides a robust foundation for next-generation information systems that can fulfill the demands of adaptive, aware, and adroit software applications for the knowledge era. The book emphasizes the importance of the hybrid approach, which combines the strengths of both mathematical and AI techniques, to achieve a more comprehensive and effective modeling process. Hybrid information system modeling techniques combine different approaches, such as fuzzy logic, rough sets, and neural networks, to create models that can handle the complexity and uncertainty of real-world problems. These techniques provide a powerful tool for modeling and analyzing complex systems, and the applications of hybrid information system modeling demonstrate their potential for solving real-world problems in various fields.

Hybrid intelligent systems are becoming a very important problem-solving methodology affecting researchers and practitioners in areas ranging from science and technology to business and commerce. This volume focuses on the hybridization of different soft computing technologies and their interactions with hard computing techniques, other intelligent computing frameworks, and agents. Topics covered include: genetic-neurocomputing, neuro-fuzzy systems, genetic-fuzzy systems, genetic-fuzzy neurocomputing, hybrid optimization techniques, interaction with intelligent agents, fusion of soft computing and hard computing techniques, other intelligent systems and hybrid systems applications. The different contributions were presented at the first international workshop on hybrid intelligent systems (HIS1) in Adelaide, Australia.

Complete with online files and updates, this important new volume covers many of the areas in which hybrid information technology is advancing. The book is the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Conference on Hybrid Information Technology, held in Korea in 2006. More than 60 revised papers were carefully selected during a second round of reviewing from 235 reports given at the conference, and are presented in extended version in the book.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology, ICHIT 2011, held in Daejeon, Korea, in September 2011. The 85 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on communications and networking; motion, video, image processing; security systems; cloud, RFID and robotics; industrial application of software systems; hardware and software engineering; healthcare, EEG and e-learning; HCI and data mining; software system and its applications.

Starting a journey on the new path of converging information technologies is the aim of the present book. Extended on 27 chapters, the book provides the reader with some leading-edge research results regarding algorithms and information models, software frameworks, multimedia, information security, communication networks, and applications. Information technologies are only at the dawn of a massive transformation and adaptation to the complex demands of the new upcoming information society. It is not possible to achieve a thorough view of the field in one book. Nonetheless, the editor hopes that the book can at least offer the first step into the convergence domain of information technologies, and the reader will find it instructive and stimulating.

This text is designed for an introductory computer course. The author pioneered the Five Component Model of a computer system to consider people, data and procedures in addition to the traditional coverage of hardware and software. All five components are integrated throughout the text.