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This two volume set of LNAI 11108 and LNAI 11109 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2018, held in Hohhot, China, in August 2018. The 55 full papers and 31 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and sele... More

This two volume set of LNAI 11108 and LNAI 11109 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2018, held in Hohhot, China, in August 2018. The 55 full papers and 31 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and sele... More

This two-volume set of LNAI 11838 and LNAI 11839 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2019, held in Dunhuang, China, in October 2019. The 85 full papers and 56 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and ... More

This two-volume set of LNAI 11838 and LNAI 11839 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2019, held in Dunhuang, China, in October 2019. The 85 full papers and 56 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and ... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th China National Conference on Computational Linguistics, CCL 2020, held in Hainan, China, in October/November 2020.The 32 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. They were organized in... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2018, held in Hangzhou, China, in May 2018.The 35 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 initial submissions. They are organized in the ... More

Convex Optimization for Signal Processing and Communications: From Fundamentals to Applications provides fundamental background knowledge of convex optimization, while striking a balance between mathematical theory and applications in signal processing and communications. <P><P> In addition to co... More

This book proposes “Vibration Utilization Engineering,” using harmful vibrations in many cases for energy harvesting. Scope of the book includes, but not limited to, linear and nonlinear system of vibrations, waves (sound wave and light wave), wave motion and energy utilization, the electric–magneti... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2021, which was held in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 17 full, 14 short, and 5 practice papers presented in this volume were ca... More

Waste Energy Harvesting overviews the latest progress in waste energy harvesting technologies, with specific focusing on waste thermal mechanical energies. Thermal energy harvesting technologies include thermoelectric effect, storage through phase change materials and pyroelectric effect. Waste me... More

In today’s digital era, increasing numbers of youth around the world learn English outside classrooms, frequently with the use of technology. This timely book brings together research and theory on the increasingly common phenomenon of Informal Digital Learning of English (IDLE) among students of al... More

Knowledge management has been widely applied to various industries as a good strategy to help improve firms’ performance. As globalisation accelerates and international trade increases more and more, maritime transport operations have become one of the vitalest industries to receive large attention ... More

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE ‘The Digital Age has transformed our learning, particularly for adolescents and young adults. This book puts forward innovative methods and observations from which both teachers and students could greatly benefit in the Digital Age. As such, this is a muc... More

This book covers a broad range of innovations in education, such as flipped classrooms, the educational use of social media, mobile learning, educational resources and massive open online courses, as well as theoretical discussions and practical applications in the use of augmented reality and educa... More

This is an open access book. This book, first of all, introduces the new unveiled Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone with details as a special mode of the regional collaborative development that is committed to be mutually beneficial to both sides with different political and economic system... More

This book constitutes extended papers from the 4th International Conference on Technology in Education, ICTE 2019, held in Guangzhou, China, in March 2019.The 27 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on ... More

This book explores a broad range of innovations in education, such as flipped classrooms, the educational use of social media, mobile learning and educational resources. It also includes theoretical discussions and practical applications related to the use of augmented reality and educational techno... More

This book constitutes extended papers from the 5th International Conference on Technology in Education, ICTE 2020, held in August 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 30 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. They a... More

This bookconstitutes extended papers from the Second International Conference onTechnology in Education, ICTE 2015, held in Hong Kong, China, in July 2015. The 26 fullpapers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 41submissions. They were organized in topical sections na... More

This book constitutes extended papers from the Third International Conference on Technology in Education, ICTE 2018, held in Hong Kong, China, in January 2018.The 27 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. They are organized in topical sections ... More

Neither Donkey nor Horse tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China’s exploration of its own modernity half a century later. Instead of viewing this transition as derivative of... More

The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the an... More

With all the complex issues of acceptance or rejection of a transplanted organ, immunology is a key subject for all transplantation clinicians.   During recent years, there has been an explosion of research and knowledge in this area. Produced in association with the American Society of Transplantat... More

The aim of this book is to provide someuseful methods to improve the spectrum sensing performance in a systematic way,and point out an effective method for the application of cognitive radiotechnology in wireless communications. The book gives a a state-of-the-artsurvey and proposes some new cooper... More

This authoritative treatment covers theory, optimal estimation and a range of practical applications. The first book on the subject, and written by leading researchers, this clear and rigorous work presents a comprehensive theory for both the stability boundary and the stability regions of a range ... More