This book applies the philosophical ideas of historical materialism and dialectical materialism to summarize and analyze the creation and development of the world’s animation art forms, technology forms and economic forms on the basis of a comprehensive study of the political, cultural, social and economic environments of a particular era, to outline the historical development of animation in China, to assess representative animation schools, animation studios and artists. It also analyses...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2018, held in Guilin, China, in September 2018. The 22 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: Information retrieval, collaborative and social computing, natural language processing.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second China Conference on Networking, CCF ChinaNet 2025, which took place in Shenyang, China, during September 12-14, 2025.The 13 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. They deal with networking technologies such as cloud computing; mobile and network security; computer engineering and networks; etc. The theme of this year's conference was “Integrating Industry, Search, and Innovation...

Intelligent electromagnetic (EM) sensing is a powerful contactless examination tool in science, engineering and military, enabling us to 'see' and 'understand' visually invisible targets. Using intelligence, the sensor can organize by itself the task-oriented sensing pipeline (data acquisition plus processing) without human intervention. Intelligent metasurface sensors, synergizing ultrathin artificial materials (AMs) for flexible wave manipulation and artificial intelligences (AIs) for po...

The subject of this book is the fast-developing area of research known as metamaterials/metasurfaces and some of their engineering applications. This book comprehensively presents the state of the art of metamaterials/metasurfaces from theory to applications. The theoretical side includes electrodynamics of left-handed medium, generalized Snell's law, digital coding metamaterials/metasurfaces, group theory of metamaterials, information metamaterials and metasurfaces, etc. On the applicatio...