Smart Technologies and Design for Healthy Built Environment connects smart technology to a healthy built environmentthat builds upon the sustainable building movement.It provides an overall summary of the state-of-the-art technologies that are applied in the built environment. The book covers a broad spectrum of smart technology categories ranging from dynamic operability, energy efficiency, self-regulating and self-learning systems, and responsive systems. The foreseeable challen...

What do we mean by net zero energy? Zero operating energy? Zero energy costs? Zero emissions? There is no one answer: approaches to net zero building vary widely across the globe and are influenced by different environmental and cultural contexts.Net Zero Energy Building: Predicted and Unintended Consequences presents a comprehensive overview of variations in 'net zero' building practices. Drawing on examples from countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, German...

The global implications surrounding embodied carbon— the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, transportation, assembly, and deconstruction of building materials—are often overlooked. Embodied Carbon challenges the conventional focus on operational carbon, focusing on the inequalities between the Global North and South. Part I traces the historical evolution of embodied carbon, clarifying its definitions, components, measurement and counting methods, and t...

Sustainability has become a driver of innovation in the built environment, but the affordability of sustainable building remains a significant challenge. This book takes a critical view of the real cost of green building. It provides readers with a non-biased evaluation based on empirical construction cost data and sheds light on the affordability of sustainable buildings.Chapters are presented in three parts. The first part lays the foundation to demystify the perception of green ...

This edited book examines the challenges and opportunities arising from today’s sharing economy from an operations management perspective. Individual chapter authors present state-of-the-art research that examines the general impact of sharing economy on production and consumption; the intermediary role of a sharing platform; crowdsourcing management; and context-based operational problems.Sharing economy refers to a market model that enables and facilitates the sharing of access t...

The figure of Dai Zhen (1724�1777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a mathematical astronomer and influential polymath who, along with like-minded scholars, sought to balance understandings of science, technology, and history within the framework of classical Chinese writings. Exploring ideas in fields as broad-ranging as astronomy, geography, governance, phonology, and etymology, Dai grappled with Western ideas and philosophies, including Jesuit conceptions of c...

"Building a Dream Community: Expand Our Dream" chronicles the remarkable growth of Friends of Children with Special Needs (FCSN) during the years 2021-2025 and celebrates the organization's 30th anniversary. As a sequel to "Friends of Children with Special Needs: Building a Dream Community," this volume continues the story of how a small support group founded by Chinese American parents in Silicon Valley evolved into one of the largest nonprofit organizations serving individuals with speci...

This is the first book devoted to mobility management, covering the important principles, technologies and applications of mobility management based on years of academic research and industry experiences. The content is organized according to the reference models proposed by the authors, and emphasizes on technical principles rather than protocol details; a systematic and comprehensive introduction is presented yet without losing focuses; the existing technologies in cellular system, mobil...

This book reports on important nonlinear aspects or deterministic chaos issues in the systems of multi-phase reactors. The reactors treated in the book include gas-liquid bubble columns, gas-liquid-solid fluidized beds and gas-liquid-solid magnetized fluidized beds. The authors take pressure fluctuations in the bubble columns as time series for nonlinear analysis, modeling and forecasting. They present qualitative and quantitative non-linear analysis tools which include attractor phase pla...

This book is a compilation of high-quality scientific papers presented at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Instruments and Information Systems (AIEIIS 2025). This book addresses the integration challenge: AI is rapidly evolving, but practical deployment requires seamless interaction with physical devices, embedded systems, and secure information infrastructures. This book emphasizes end to end solutions, showing how advanced algorithms can be embedded into re...

This book is a compilation of high-quality scientific papers presented at International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Electronic Instruments and Information Systems (AIEIIS 2025). This book addresses the integration challenge: AI is rapidly evolving, but practical deployment requires seamless interaction with physical devices, embedded systems, and secure information infrastructures. The proceedings emphasize end‑to‑end solutions, showing how advanced algorithms can be embedded in...

This conference is one of the most significant annual events of the China Electrotechnical Society, showcasing the latest research trends, methodologies, and experimental results in electrical, electronic, and networked energy systems. The proceedings cover a wide range of cutting-edge theories and ideas, including topics such as power systems, power electronics, smart grids, renewable energy, energy integration in transportation, advanced power technologies, and the energy internet.