Emerging: “Emergence” and innovation are the norm in Information Technology. New technologies and ideas are emerging around the clock with deep impacts on all aspects of life. Researchers should always be at the edge

Intelligent: Artificial Intelligence is becoming a mainstream approach for building modern systems. Most of the systems we are using today are based on AI technologies

Autonomous: Autonomy is the “fashion” of the age: embedding business and operational rules in the software. A good example is blockchain. The system works without centralized control, administration or human intervention

Systems: system theory and complexity science are dominating the scene in the knowledge era. The national interplay between “complexity systems” and “Information Technology” is surprising