%0 Journal Article %T Preface %A Ka Lok Man %A Chi-Un Lei %A Kaiyu Wan %A Christophe Huygens %J International Journal of Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems %D 2011 %I Solari (HK) Co., Hong Kong %X Welcome to the Volume 2 Number 2 of the International Journal of Design, Analysis and Toolsfor Integrated Circuits and Systems (IJDATICS). This issue is comprised of extended versions ofstudent papers that were submitted to the XiĄŻan Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) studentworkshop, which was co-located with the 1st IEEE International Conference on NetworkedEmbedded Systems for Enterprise Applications (IEEE NESEAĄŻ10) that was held in Suzhou,Jiangsu Province, China in November 2010.We view the promotion of early-stage Ph.D. student research as a key part of the mission of theNESEA conference series. The inaugural NESEA student workshop provided a high qualityforum in which Ph.D. students could present their research to leading international academicswho were attending the main NESEA 2010 conference. %U http://ijdatics.distributedthought.com/current_issues/IJDATICS_02_02_PREFACE.pdf