This book explores the intersection of quantum computing and network science. It bridges the theoretical foundations of quantum walk algorithms with their applications in the structural exploration and representation learning of complex networks.Quantum walks, a technology that is pivotal to universal quantum computational models, examines the movement of particles on a graph composed of nodes and links. Quantum superposition enables these particles to traverse these graphs more qu...

Innovation and entrepreneurship rank highly on the strategic agenda of most countries today. As global economic competition intensifies, many national policymakers now recognize the central importance of entrepreneurship education and the building of financial institutions to promote long-term innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. Drivers of Innovation brings together scholars from the United States and Asia to explore those education and finance policies that might be conduci...

Chen, He and Yan present a range of applications of multiple-source big data to core areas of contemporary sociology, demonstrating how a theory-guided approach to macrosociology can help to understand social change in China, especially where traditional approaches are limited by constrained and biased data.In each chapter of the book, the authors highlight an application of theory-guided macrosociology that has the potential to reinvigorate an ambitious, open-minded and bold appro...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to quantum image processing, which focuses on extending conventional image processing tasks to the quantum computing frameworks. It summarizes the available quantum image representations and their operations, reviews the possible quantum image applications and their implementation, and discusses the open questions and future development trends. It offers a valuable reference resource for graduate students and researchers interested in this em...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Chinese Conference on Trusted Computing and Information Security, CTCIS 2019, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2019.The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 247 submissions. The papers are centered around cryptography, systems security, trusted computing, information security, network security, information hiding.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Chinese Conference on Trusted Computing and Information Security, CTCIS 2018, held in Wuhan, China, in October 2018.The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers are centered around cryptography, systems security, trusted computing, information security, and network security.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Chinese Conference on Trusted Computing and Information Security, CTCIS 2017, held in Changsha, China, in September 2017.The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers focus on topics such as theory of trusted computing, trustworthy software; infrastructure of trusted computing, application and evaluation of trusted computing; network security and communication secu...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data, CloudCom-Asia 2015, held in Huangshan, China, in June 2015.The 29 full papers and two keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cloud architecture; applications; big data and social network; security and privacy.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Security and Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2016, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2016. The 25 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They cover multiple topics in information security, from technologies to systems and applications.

This four volume set LNCS 9528, 9529, 9530 and 9531 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2015, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in November 2015.The 219 revised full papers presented together with 77 workshop papers in these four volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 807 submissions (602 full papers and 205 workshop papers). The first volume comprises the following topics: pa...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICISC 2015, held in Beijing, China, in December 2015.The 24 revised full papers and 19 short papers presented were carefully selected from 148 submissions. The papers provide the latest results in research and development in the field of information security and applied cryptology.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2015) will be held on August 13-15, 2015 in Nanjing, China.The objective of ICCCS 2015 is to provide a forum for researchers, academicians, engineers, industrial professionals, students and government officials involved in the general areas of information security and cloud computing.