This book presents data driven approaches to improve drilling performance in geothermal, coiled tubing, and conventional operations. It begins with transformer models for forecasting rate of penetration in geothermal wells, followed by methods for predicting both penetration and downhole shock in coiled tubing drilling. A variational autoencoder framework is introduced for diagnosing resistivity tool anomalies to support reliable geosteering. Subsequent chapters examine the use of deep aut...

This book seeks to trace the notarial history of China from 1902 to 1979. While working on this trailblazing effort, the author taps into a rich variety of artifacts, especially the notarial documents, archived records, manuals and journals from private collection or originally issued by China’s judicial authorities during different periods. No similar book has been published so far. Many of these items are taken from old publications and notarial documents that the author purchased from g...

This two-volume set LNICST 304-305 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 15thInternational Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2019, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in October 2019.The 38 full and 18 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on blockchains, internet of things, machine learning, everything traffic security communicating covertly, let’s talk privacy, ...

This two-volume set LNICST 304-305 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 15thInternational Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks, SecureComm 2019, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in October 2019.The 38 full and 18 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on blockchains, internet of things, machine learning, everything traffic security communicating covertly, let’s talk privacy, ...

Civil Engineering and Urban Planning IV includes the papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning (CEUP 2015, Beijing, China, 25-27 July 2015). The contributions from experts and world-renowned scientists cover a wide variety of topics: - Civil engineering;- Architecture and urban planning; - Transpor

Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language, edited by Ko-Yin Sung, addresses three emerging themes in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning. (1) Increasingly ubiquitous in all language learning and teaching, and for the learning of Chinese as a second language in particular, information and communication technology (ICT) can serve as an important and effective tool. Several chapters focus on how certain emerging ICT tools are applied in teaching and learnin...

This two-volume set, CCIS 2315 and CCIS 2316, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Frontiers in Cyber Security, FCS 2024 held in Chongqing, China, during July 26–28, 2024.The 47 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Machine Learning and Differential Privacy; Federated Learning; Privacy-Preserving Ser...

This two-volume set, CCIS 2315 and CCIS 2316, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Frontiers in Cyber Security, FCS 2024 held in Chongqing, China, during July 26–28, 2024.The 47 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Machine Learning and Differential Privacy; Federated Learning; Privacy-Preserving Ser...

The book presents a compilation of research on meso/microforming processes, and offers systematic and holistic knowledge for the physical realization of developed processes. It discusses practical applications in fabrication of meso/microscale metallic sheet-metal parts via sheet-metal meso/microforming. In addition, the book provides extensive and informative illustrations, tables, case studies, photos and figures to convey knowledge of sheet-metal meso/microforming for fabrication of mes...

This book constitutes selected papers presented during the 5th China Annual Intelligent Robotics Conference, CIRAC 2024, held in Dalian, China, in September 2024.The 28 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: Deep Learning Architecture; Low-Level Vision; Multi-modal learning; Pattern Recognition; Robotics; and Signal processing.