Preface

Welcome to the Volume 2 Number 1 of the International Journal of Design, Analysis and Tools for Integrated Circuits and Systems (IJDATICS). This volume is comprised of extended versions of research papers from the 1st IEEE International Conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Enterprise Applications (IEEE NESEA’10) that was held in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China in November 2010.The inaugural NESEA conference provided a high quality forum in which researchers met to discuss the application of networked embedded systems to businesses processes and the development of technologies that will result in greater application of embedded systems in enterprise scenarios.