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This book includes a general overview of the book series and summarizes the research results in its 13 subtopics. It systematically elaborates on how the construction and promotion of intelligent cities with Chinese characteristics could be implemented in the course of intelligent urbanization in Ch... More

With the implementation of the strategic plan “Made in China 2025” as its guideline and “the study of formulation of executive summary of innovative design in the manufacturing industry” as the main theme, this book provides an in-depth interpretation of innovative design from three perspectives – w... More

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Dependable Software Engineering, SETTA 2020, held in Guangzhou, China, in November 2020. The 10 full and 1 short paper included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They deal with late... More

This book comprehensively examines the development of translator and interpreter training using bibliometric reviews of the state of the field and empirical studies on classroom practice. It starts by introducing databases in bibliometric reviews and presents a detailed account of the reasons behin... More

Covers the theory and practice of designing, synthesizing, and improving the performance of fuels This book provides readers with the fundamentals on high-energy-density fuels and their potential in advanced aerospace propulsion. It comprehensively and systematically demonstrates both the theory and... More

This book offers a systematic coverage of diagnostic imaging in infectious and inflammatory diseases in musculoskeletal system. The first part is devoted to a general review of infectious diseases in musculoskeletal system, as well as pathogenic classification, imaging techniques, pathogenic and ima... More

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cryptology and Malicious Security, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1-2, 2016. The 26 revised full papers, two short papers and two keynotes presented were carefully reviewed and selecte... More

Drying of Biomass, Biosolids, and Coal: For Efficient Energy Supply and Environmental Benefits provides insight into advanced technologies and knowledge of the drying of biomass, biosolids, and coal in terms of improved efficiency, economics, and environmental impact. It comprehensively covers all t... More

The expanding market share of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), driven by the secondary battery and electric vehicle markets, has consequently led to the accumulation of spent LIBs. This presents a unique business opportunity for recovering and recycling valuable metals from the spent lithium-ion cathod... More

This bookgives a start-to-finish overview of the whole Fish4Knowledge project, in 18short chapters, each describing one aspect of the project. The Fish4Knowledgeproject explored the possibilities of big video data, in this case fromundersea video. Recording and analyzing 90 thousand hours of video... More

Kernel Learning Algorithms for Face Recognition covers the framework of kernel based face recognition. This book discusses the advanced kernel learning algorithms and its application on face recognition. This book also focuses on the theoretical deviation, the system framework and experiments involv... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Internet of Things, SGIoT 2019, held in TaiChung, Taiwan, in November  2019. The 10 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions and present results on how to achie... More

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Wireless Internet, WiCON 2019, held in TaiChung, Taiwan, in November 2019. The 39 full papers were selected from 79 submissions and are grouped into the following topics: Ad hoc and sensor network,... More

Get up to speed with digital holography with this concise and straightforward introduction to modern techniques and conventions. Building up from the basic principles of optics, this book describes key techniques in digital holography, such as phase-shifting holography, low-coherence holography, di... More

The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with ... More

This book is about a significant step forward in software development. It brings state-of-the-art ontology reasoning into mainstream software development and its languages. Ontology Driven Software Development is the essential, comprehensive resource on enabling technologies, consistency checking an... More

This volume contains some lecture notes of the 12th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2016), held in Aberdeen, UK, in September 2016. In 2016, the theme of the school was "Logical Foundation of Knowledge Graph Construction and Query Answering". The notion of knowledge graph has become popular since ... More

This book presents selected papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, in conjunction with the Thirteenth International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, Applications and Tools, held on November 5–7, 2020, i... More

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wireless Internet , WiCON 2018, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in October 2018. The 36 full papers were selected from 79 submissions and are grouped into the following topics: wireless network, artificial... More

A quick-reference, multi-media guide to practical psychotherapy skills that improve client outcomes. Rigorously field-tested by on-the-ground clinicians, these practical guidebooks--sold separately or as a set--provide easy-to-use, evidence-based summaries of five core therapy techniques. Filled wit... More

Heroes and Villains, the seventh volume in Jon Scieszka’s Guys Read Library of Great Reading, is chock-full of adventure featuring an array of characters—with and without capes.Featuring ten all-new, original stories that run the gamut from fantasy to comics to contemporary adventure to nonfiction, ... More

Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the particular ways they are marginalized by the intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Although Asian American studies critics have long since debunked the model minority myth that construc... More

The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- bu... More