The Inaugural IEEE conference on Networked Embedded Systems for Enterprise Applications (NESEA 2010) just closed at XJTLU in Suzhou. It was a small, but tightly focused and high quality event with great discussion in all of the paper sessions.
The XJTLU Conference Center did a great job of hosting the event and made sure that everything was taken care of during the conference.
XJTLU's final-year Computer Science students were indispensible, manning the registration desk and helping the attendees. NESEA would not have been the same without them.
As local chair, I was honored to open the proceedings, and I even wore a suit for the occasion, which as you know, is very rare.
NESEA was a single-track event with ten academic papers and one keynote speech delivered over one and a half days. Papers were divided into four key themes: (i) application composition, (ii.) the tangible cloud, (iii.) secure routing and (iv.) hardware design. In the photo above, Dean Kramer from Thames Valley University, UK presents his work on MobDSL, a domain-specific language for developing mobile applications. This work won the best paper award in the DATICS-NESEA workshop.
It was extremely gratifying to see that the audience remained engaged throughout the event and that all of the authors got a good grilling on their work. I think that in-depth discussion is the hallmark of a good conference.
The main conference best paper award was given to Rabindra Bista from Chonbuk University, Korea for his paper "Assuring Integrity in Data Aggregation for Wireless Sensor Networks".
Of course, the conference banquet and social event were also a lot of fun. I will upload some photos of this next week when I return from Middleware'10 in Bangalore, India.
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