In the Gutter Warrens, at the base of a mountain she will never be allowed to climb, Meilin Yin sorts the garbage the powerful throw away.Dead spirit stones. Withered herbs. Broken talismans. For seven years she has survived on the refuse of Azure Peak Sect, the only scavenger who bothers to bring intact work to Old Mu's guild, the only one who notices that things others call worthless still remember what they used to be.Then she discovers something no one was supposed to f...

The little trash of the Exorcist Family had been packaged and given to someone else to be his wife.After he was deceived and humiliated.Married to his most hated enemy.Only a husband is good in this world.His family treated him like a root and his enemies treated him like a treasure.

The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move forward. This in-depth ethnography and social history of the islands focuses on how individual c...

Have you ever wanted to start investing, but not known where to begin? Invest Lah! is the perfect guide for beginners looking to navigate the world of investing in Singapore. This comprehensive book covers everything from understanding the basics of stocks to exploringthe Singapore stock market, equipping beginner investors with the essential knowledge on how to get started.This special 10th anniversary edition revisits the helpful advice and expert insights compiled by the authors...

This two-volume set of LNAI 12798 and 12799 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2021, held virtually and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in July 2021.The 87 full papers and 19 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. The IEA/AIE 2021 conference will continue the tradition of emphasizing on applications of appl...

This second volume of conference proceedings contains selected papers presented at ICGEC 2023, the 15th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, held on October 6-8, 2023 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The conference is intended as an international forum for the researchers and professionals in all areas of genetic and evolutionary computing. And the readers may know the up-to-date techniques of the mentioned topics, including technologies for next-generation network environm...

The book presents the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA 2022), held at NIT Mizoram, Aizawl, Mizoram, India during 18 – 19 June 2022. Researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners exchange new ideas and experiences in the domain of intelligent computing theories with prospective applications in various engineering disciplines in the book. These proceedings are divided into two volumes. It covers bro...

This book gathers papers presented at the 10th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2016). The conference was co-sponsored by Springer, Fujian University of Technology in China, the University of Computer Studies in Yangon, University of Miyazaki in Japan, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences in Taiwan, Taiwan Association for Web Intelligence Consortium, and VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. The ICGEC 2016, which was held fro...

This book features a collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication (ICICC 2021) organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru, India, on 26–27 November 2021. The book is organized in two volumes and discusses advanced and multi-disciplinary research regarding the design of smart computing...

This book gathers papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2019), which was held in Qingdao, China, from 1st to 3rd, November 2019. Since it was established, in 2006, the ICGEC conference series has been devoted to new approaches with a focus on evolutionary computing. Today, it is a forum for the researchers and professionals in all areas of computational intelligence including evolutionary computing, machine learning, soft computi...

The 6-volume set LNAI 14645-14650 constitutes the proceedings of the 28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2024, which took place in Taipei, Taiwan, during May 7–10, 2024.The 177 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 720 submissions. They deal with new ideas, original research results, and practical development experiences from all KDD related areas, including data mining, data warehousing, machine learn...

The 6-volume set LNAI 14645-14650 constitutes the proceedings of the 28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2024, which took place in Taipei, Taiwan, during May 7–10, 2024.The 177 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 720 submissions. They deal with new ideas, original research results, and practical development experiences from all KDD related areas, including data mining, data warehousing, machine learn...