SPECIAL SECTION ON ADVANCES IN IT CONVERGENCE TECHNOLOGIES

摘要

IT Convergence (ITC) means the synergistic combination of conventional industries and information technologies, which has been recently adopted as a blue ocean strategy to create new chances, markets, and jobs. Expectedly, traditional industries will overcome their big obstacles as well as achieve innovative technologies, product differentiation, and global competitiveness by largely relying on information technologies. Therefore, ITC will bring new opportunities and challenges for researchers to deal with complex and uncertain problems and systems, which could not be solved by the traditional methods.