This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, APPT 2026, held in Brussels, Belgium, on July 27, 2026.The 36 full papers, 11 Poster Papers and 4 work in- progress papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 135 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Featured Articles; LLM Inference; Serving Systems; LLM Workflows; AI Design Automation; Scalable Comp...

The Analects of Confucius is a compendium of lively banter and engaging exchanges between Confucius and his contemporaries, one that touches upon culture, fashion, arts, and society, making fun of celebrities and political figures of the day with juicy quotes from bestselling books as well as popular lyrics from the most widely-circulated songs, all of which, unfortunately, is lost on the modern reader — lost in translations that, out of good scholarly intention, seek to faithfully preserv...

Year of the Goat adopts a learner-centered approach and infuses elements of AI-assisted language acquisition into its lessons. Volume 2 of the textbook explores the themes of food, family, ancestry, religion, livelihood, and romance.The book follows a student, an interpreter, a flight attendant, a software engineer, and a music artist whose lives become intertwined during a year in China. In the process, it addresses such hot-button issues as student debt, illegal immigrat...

Year of the Goat adopts a learner-centered approach and infuses elements of AI-assisted language acquisition into its lessons. Volume 1 explores the themes of study, travel, work, leisure, housing, and relationships.The book follows a student, an interpreter, a flight attendant, a software engineer, and a music artist whose lives become intertwined during a year in China. In the process, it addresses such hot-button issues as sexual orientation, racial discrimination, acad...

This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2025, held in Osaka & Fukui, Japan, during August 19–24, 2025.The 82 full papers and 2 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 196 submissions.They were focused on the following topical sections:Part I : AI Technology Frontiers-Computer Science and Data Science; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Na...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technologies, APPT 2025, held in Athens, Greece, during July 13–16, 2025.The 17 full papers and 10 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Chip and Accelerators, Memory and Storage, Cloud and Networking, Design for LLM and ML/AI, Big Data and Graph Processing, and S...

This book covers Martian Aeolian Geomorphology and is organized around three main foci. The first focus is about advancing our understanding of aeolian geomorphology through research on Martian aeolian landforms. Chapters 1 through 4 provide essential knowledge for understanding the aeolian geomorphology of Mars. Among them, Chapters 1 and 2 provide readers with a clear understanding of the significance, scientific status and methodology of the study of aeolian geomorphology on Mars. Chapt...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational Mathematics Modeling in Cancer Analysis, CMMCA 2025, held in Daejeon, South Korea, during September 27, 2025, in conjunction with MICCAI 2025.The 17 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. These papers focus on algorithmic and mathematical innovations that advance cancer imaging and analysis across spatial, temporal, and biological s...

This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2025, held in Osaka & Fukui, Japan, during August 19–24, 2025.The 82 full papers and 2 short papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 196 submissions.They were focused on the following topical sections:Part I : AI Technology Frontiers-Computer Science and Data Science; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Na...

Algae are sunlight-driven cell factories, and can efficiently absorb CO2 and convert light energy to chemical energy such as lipid, starch and other carbohydrates and release O2. Algal feedstock is a promising resource for bioproduct production, given its high photosynthetic efficiency for producing biomass compared to conventional crops. Microalgae can be used for flue-gas and wastewater bioremediation. This book highlights recent breakthroughs in the multidisciplinary areas of algal biot...

Fluctuation Mechanism and Control on System Instantaneous Availability facilitates the development of modeling and identification skills for both theoretical research and applications. Supplying an overall summary of current research results in fluctuation analysis of instantaneous availability, it covers the theory, methodology, and specific engineering implementation required to conduct equipment instantaneous availability analysis. Presenting practical methods and tools, it describes ho...

Past 200 years, China was shattered countlessly by wars and invasions. Its progress to modern society once behind, but outpaces to the top now. What a blessing from God. Pictures and bible scripts pairs in this book to illustrated history, and to pray for China, the biggest country in population, and in Christianity. 祝福中国 - 两百年来，中国饱受战争之苦，难以迈步，直到最近飞跃成长，上帝祝福，已为顶尖大国。希望借着照片与圣经经文，呈现这段历史，也请继续为中国祷告，他日成为祝福与平安之地。