Message from the NSTC 2011 Organizers

To guarantee a high-quality proceedings, we put extensive effort into reviewing the submitted papers. We received 13 papers, and all of which were peer reviewed by three program committee members or external reviewers. It was hard work to select the presentations for the workshop because every paper had its merit and distinguished points. To allocate as many papers as possible and keep the high quality of the workshop, we finally decided to accept 6 papers. We believe all of these papers and topics will not only provide information about novel ideas, works in progress, and state-of-the-art techniques in this field, but will also stimulate future research activities.