Cure Models: Methods, Applications and Implementation is the first book in the last 25 years that provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the basics of modern cure models, including estimation, inference, and software. This book is useful for statistical researchers and graduate students, and practitioners in other disciplines to have a thorough review of modern cure model methodology and to seek appropriate cure models in applications. The prerequisites of...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AI 2017, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in August 2017.The 29 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. This volume covers a wide spectrum of research streams in artificial intelligence ranging from machine learning, optimization to big data science and their practical applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2024, held in Kunming, China, in July 19–21, 2024.The 93 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 236 submissions. The symposium provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applica...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2024, held in Kunming, China, in July 19–21, 2024.The 93 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 236 submissions. The symposium provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applica...

This two-set volume LNCS 15756 and 15767 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2025, held in Helsinki, Finland, during August 3–5, 2025.The 66 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. This year’s symposium brought together leading researchers, scientists, and industry professionals from around the world to share cutting-edge advancements, foster collaboration, and exp...

This two-set volume LNCS 15756 and 15767 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2025, held in Helsinki, Finland, during August 3–5, 2025.The 66 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. This year’s symposium brought together leading researchers, scientists, and industry professionals from around the world to share cutting-edge advancements, foster collaboration, and exp...

Climate change is a key problem of the 21st century. China, as the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, has committed to stabilize its current emissions and dramatically increase the share of electricity production from non-fossil fuels by 2030. However, this is only a first step: in the longer term, China needs to aggressively strive to reach a goal of zero-emissions. Through detailed discussions of electricity pricing, electric vehicle policies, nuclear energy policies, and renewable ene...

This book reviews and presents several advanced approaches to energy infrastructure assets' intelligent reliability and maintainability. Each introduced model provides case studies indicating high efficiency, robustness, and applicability, allowing readers to utilize them in their understudy intelligent reliability and maintainability of energy infrastructure assets domains.The book begins by reviewing the state-of-the-art research on the reliability and maintainability of energy i...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2021, held online as part of SCF 2021, during December 10-14, 2021.The 6 full and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The topics covered are Big Data Architecture, Big Data Modeling, Big Data As A Service, Big Data for Vertical Industries (Government, Healthcare, etc.), Big Data Analytics, Big Data Toolkits, Big Data Open Platforms,...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2019, held in San Diego, CA, USA, in June 2019.The 5 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The contributions deal with the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of edge computing, identifying emerging research topics and defining the future of edge computing.

The 2016 International Conference on Mechanics and Architectural Design (MAD2016) were held in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, 14 - 15 May 2016. The main objective of this conference is to provide a platform for researchers, academics and industrial professionals to present their research findings in the fields of Architecture, Mechanical and Civil Engineering.This proceedings consists of 90 articles selected after peer-review. It consists of 6 articles in Mechanics, and 84 articles covering resea...

This textbook surveys the knowledge base in automated and resilient cyber deception. It features four major parts: cyber deception reasoning frameworks, dynamic decision-making for cyber deception, network-based deception, and malware deception.An important distinguishing characteristic of this book is its inclusion of student exercises at the end of each chapter. Exercises include technical problems, short-answer discussion questions, or hands-on lab exercises, organized at a rang...