There is a pressing need for a greater understanding among the world’s diverse peoples. Once individuals gain an appreciation of each other’s language and history, they can use this foundation to help construct a more peaceful, harmonious, cooperative and equitable world. But how can they begin to work toward this goal? In 2013 China proposed the Community of Shared Future (CSF), which has since become a framework for international collaboration aimed at creating a better world. Under the ...

This book introduces readers to a workload-aware methodology for large-scale graph algorithm optimization in graph-computing systems, and proposes several optimization techniques that can enable these systems to handle advanced graph algorithms efficiently. More concretely, it proposes a workload-aware cost model to guide the development of high-performance algorithms. On the basis of the cost model, the book subsequently presents a system-level optimization resulting in a partition-aware ...

This book studies the stability analysis of continuous time delay-difference equations and their application in the predictor feedback control of input-delayed systems. Stability analysis for delay-difference equations is a central topic and is typically addressed through two methods: frequency-domain methods, which provide nonconservative conditions but are challenging for control synthesis; time-domain LKF methods, which are tractable but often conservative. This book analyzes the stabil...

This volume theorizes the concept of citizenship in contemporary China by probing into the formation of Chinese citizenship and synthesizing the practices of citizenship by different social groups. The first section, “Imagining Chinese Citizenship,” analyses how Chinese citizenship was first imagined by means of translation and education at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Chinese citizenship was then compared with the concept of Western citizenship and that of other Asian count...