2009 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation will be held in the beautiful coastal Chinese city of Zhuhai, nicknamed City of a Hundred Islands, June 22 to 25, 2009, with post-conference workshops and activities to take place in Macau, also known as “Vegas of the East”. ICIA is a young, vibrant and growing international conference – running annually since 2004 and gaining increasing international prominence. Its scope was broadened in 2008 to emphasize the importance of information to automation research. We are pleased to bring you the 2009 conference as a forum that facilitates timely and effective academic and scientific exchanges among researchers in a wide range of research fields in information science and automation engineering.