Safety Theory and Technology of High-Speed Train Operation puts forward solutions for train dispatching and signal control. Frequent railway incidents have threatened the safety of rail transport. In 2013, more than 12 trains collided. In the same year, a Spanish train derailed due to speed, and two of China's high-speed trains collided. In 2016, Germany and Italy both experienced serious train collisions. Global railway security is essential. Many accidents are caused by train dispatching...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage, SpaCCS 2019, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in July 2019. The 37 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions.The papers cover many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing funda...

This book comprehensively introduces the drilling theory and practice behind CCSD-1 well drilling, the first stage of a key national scientific engineering project of China. In addition to access to variety of data and information accumulated decade during the project’s decade-long operation, readers also gain insight into state-of-the-art techniques and most recent achievements in China’s scientific drilling industry. Specifically, this work introduces the drilling engineering design, wel...

Theory and Technology for Improving High-Speed Railway Transportation Capacity present solutions to problems in utilizing new technologies for signaling in high-speed rail towards increasing capacity. The book examines capacity in terms of signaling control and for a railway transport organization. Key problems covered include station intervals and resource occupation. This book provides a handbook for developing capacity through new technology and methods in signaling. Sections focus on i...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Blockchain, ICBC 2023, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2023, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, during September 23–26, 2023.The 9 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The conference focuses on new blockchain architecture, platform constructions, blockchain development, and blockchain services technologies as well as standards and bloc...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of six symposiums and two workshops co-located with SpaCCS 2019, the 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Anonymity in Computation, Communication, and Storage.The 26 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. This year's symposiums and workshops are: SPIoT 2019 – Security and Privacy of Internet of Things; TSP 2019 – Trust, Security and Privacy for Emerging Applications; SCS 2019 – Sensor-C...

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical introduction to the estimand framework and its application in clinical trials. Since its introduction by the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) through the E9(R1) guideline in 2019, the estimand framework has led to a significant shift in the design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation of clinical trials. By explicitly aligning trial objectives with the clinical question of interest—and by carefully accounting for i...

Solid-State NMR Characterization of Heterogeneous Catalysts and Catalytic Reactions provides a comprehensive account of state-of-the-art solid-state NMR techniques and the application of these techniques in heterogeneous catalysts and related catalytic reactions. It includes an introduction to the basic theory of solid-state NMR and various frequently used techniques. Special emphasis is placed on characterizing the framework and pore structure, active site, guest-host interaction, and syn...

Optical Fiber Sensing TechnologiesExplore foundational and advanced topics in optical fiber sensing technologiesIn Optical Fiber Sensing Technologies: Principles, Techniques, and Applications, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive overview of all critical aspects of optical fiber sensing devices, systems, and technologies. The book moves from the basic principles of the technology to innovation methods and a broad range of ap...

In the face of increasingly serious resource and environmental challenges, the world has already accepted low-carbon development as the main way forward for future city construction. Chinese cities have encountered many problems during their development, including land constraints, energy shortages, traffic congestion and air pollution. For this reason, the national meeting of the Central Work Conference on Urbanization made the strategic decision to take a new approach to urbanization and...

The two-volume set LNICST 150 and 151 constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Internet of Things Summit, IoT360 2014, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2014.This volume contains 30 revised full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions at the following three conferences: the First International Conference on Mobility and Smart Cities, Mobility IoT 2014; the First International Conference on Software-Defined and Virtu...

The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policymakers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatures. The expert authors in this specially commissioned collection focus on the likely costs and benefits of a very wide range of policy options, including geo-engineering, mitigation of CO2, methane and 'black carbon', expanding forest, research and development of low-carbon energy and encouragi...