This book investigates in detail large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) problem, which has gradually evolved from the traditional group decision-making problem and has attracted more and more attention in the age of big data. Pursuing a holistic approach, the book establishes a fundamental framework for LSGDM with uncertain and behavioral considerations. To address the behavioral uncertainty and complexity of large groups of decision-makers, this book mainly focuses on new solutions of ...

This book is a result from a collective study on philosophy of scientific practice (PSP), which began around 2002 and still ongoing. There is an apparently increasing interest in scientific practice, influenced by the historicistic philosophy of science and the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK). Prof. WU Tong and his research group believe that it is necessary for PSP to turn from the theory-dominant position to the practice dominance. PSP has also put forward the possibility of rein...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art quantum dot photodetectors, including device fabrication technologies, optical engineering/manipulation strategies, and emerging photodetectors with building blocks of novel quantum dots (e.g. perovskite) as well as their hybrid structured (e.g. 0D/2D) materials. Semiconductor quantum dots have attracted much attention due to their unique quantum confinement effect, which allows for the facile tuning of optical properties that...

This two volume set LNCS 14422-14423 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference, COCOON 2023, held in Hawaii, HI, USA, during December 2023.The 60 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections:Part I : Combinatorics and Algorithms; Algorithmic Solution in Applications; and Algorithm in Networks.Part II: Complexity and Approximation; Graph Algorithms; and Appl...

This two volume set volume LNCS 14422-14423 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference, COCOON 2023, held in Hawaii, HI, USA, during December 2023.The 60 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections:Part I : Combinatorics and Algorithms; Algorithmic Solution in Applications; and Algorithm in Networks.Part II: Complexity and Approximation; Graph Algorithms; a...

AI AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR NETWORK AND SECURITY MANAGEMENTExtensive Resource for Understanding Key Tasks of Network and Security ManagementAI and Machine Learning for Network and Security Management covers a range of key topics of network automation for network and security management, including resource allocation and scheduling, network planning and routing, encrypted traffic classification, anomaly detection, and security opera...

IN THE NEWSWeimin Wu: pioneer physicist on Chinese science's turbulent past, promising futureTimes Higher Education, 25 February 2016 While the first 30 years of new China's scientific development was a self-reliant era marked...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Efficient Medical Artificial Intelligence, EMA4MICCAI 2025, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2025, in Daejeon, South Korea, on September 23, 2025.The 36 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The EMA4MICCAI Workshop focuses on advancing computational effciency in medical AI by exploring innovative techniques such as lightweight model architectures, resour...

This book covers an overview of the distribution of permafrost in China and its engineering properties as well as its environment protection. Frozen soil engineering of cold regions is the branch of engineering geocryology, alternatively known as a practical discipline of geocryology. It focuses on the measures of line selection, basic design, subgrade treatment and anti-freezing, swelling and sinking of cold regions in construction engineering, subgrade engineering, bridge, culvert and tu...

Sliced Up Press proudly presents twenty-one horror stories and poems where queer meets fear.With all-new fiction & poetry from Avi Ben-Zeev, Elizabeth Lynn Blackson, Amanda Nevada DeMel, Minh-Anh Vo Dinh, Phillip E. Dixon, Dex Drury, Mason Hawthorne, Lor Gislason, Anastasia Jill, Bitter Karella, Lindsay King-Miller, Norah Lovelock, Avra Margariti, Marisca Pichette, Eric Raglin, Xan van Rooyen, Eva Roslin, Marc Ruvolo, Alan Mark Tong, Ezra Wu and Jamie Zaccaria

A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features. The first one is a Chinese perspective on Western literary works, which is normally not found in the scholarship in the West. The second is the feministic stance demonstrated in most articles, as most of the contributors are female. There are four parts in this collection. Part One is titled "A Room of Her Own" a...

The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state’s persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the tripling of imperial territories in the Qing to the disputes over the identity of the former “out...