"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." —Carolyn See, The Washington PostIn the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery. When a new teacher—a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm—comes to Urumqi, the cap...

"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." —Carolyn See, The Washington PostIn the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery. When a new teacher—a tall, elegantly dressed man from Shanghai carrying an English dictionary under his arm—comes to Urumqi, the cap...

This book introduces a pioneering framework for monitoring and controlling autonomous energy systems, distinguished by its use of physics-informed deep neural networks. These networks provide accurate estimations and forecasts, interlacing with advanced composite optimization algorithms to simplify the complex processes of state estimation. This approach not only boosts operational efficiency but also maximizes flexibility through a data-driven methodology integrated with physics-based pri...

An Introduction to Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Metals gives a background on the physics of materials, describing relevant experimental techniques. The book presents the necessary background in physics, thermodynamics, and the mechanics of solids, before moving on to cover elasticity, plasticity, fracture and the anelastic behavior of metallic glasses, relating these properties to chemical composition, atomic arrangement, microstructure, and methods of preparation. In addition, it compar...

Deep Learning: From Algorithmic Essence to Industrial Practice introduces the fundamental theories of deep learning, engineering practices, and their deployment and application in the industry. This book provides a detailed explanation of classic convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and transformer networks based on self-attention mechanisms, along with their variants, combining code demonstrations. Additionally, this book covers the applications of these models in are...

This book constitutes selected and extended papers from the Second International Workshop on Deployable Machine Learning for Security Defense, MLHat 2021, held in August 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.The 6 full papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 7 qualified submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on machine learning for security, and malware attack and defense.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2017, in Munich, Germany, in September 2017, held in conjunction with the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2017.The 9 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical se...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th EAI International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, MobiMedia 2022, held in July 22-24, 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 29 full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections as follows: Internet of Things and Wireless Communications Communication Strategy Optimization; Cyberspace S...

This book offers a systematic view of data services in heterogeneous wireless networks, from the perspectives of cause, governing rules, and impact of data’s mobility on such networks. Specifically, it covers application requirements break-down, network modeling, performance analysis and evaluation by examining mobile data dynamics that are particularly important to data service provisioning. Additionally, application prospects such as information dissemination, fog computing, Internet-of-...

This book provides cutting-edge research results and application experiences from researchers and practitioners in multiple criteria decision making areas. It consists of three parts: MCDM Foundation and Theory, MCDM Methodology, and MCDM Applications. In Part I, it covers the historical MCDM development, the influence of MCDM on technology, society and policy, Pareto optimization, and analytical hierarchy process. In Part II, the book presents different MCDM algorithms based on techniques...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from two VLDB workshops: The International Workshop on Polystore Systems for Heterogeneous Data in Multiple Databases with Privacy and Security Assurances, Poly 2020, and the 6th International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2020, which were held virtually on August 31 and September 4, 2020.For Poly 2020, 4 full and 3 short papers were accepted from 10 submissions; and for DMAH 2020, 7 full an...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings for the VLBD conference workshops entitled: Towards Polystores That Manage Multiple Databases, Privacy, Security and/or Policy Issues for Heterogenous Data (Poly 2019) and the Fifth International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2019), held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2019, in conjunction with the 45th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2019.The 20 r...