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.
This volume constitutes the selected papers of the 2009 International Conference on Control and Automation (CA 2009) as a partner of International Conference on Future Generation Information Technology (FGIT 2009).