This book provides comprehensive coverage of the latest trends/advances in subjective and objective quality evaluation for traditional visual signals, such as 2D images and video, as well as the most recent challenges for the field of multimedia quality assessment and processing, such as mobile video and social media. Readers will learn how to ensure the highest storage/delivery/ transmission quality of visual content (including image, video, graphics, animation, etc.) from the server to t...

The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 19-22, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 315 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I : Post-Quantum Cryptography; Functional Encryption; Cryptanalysis and Implementations I; Cryptanalysis a...

Modular Multilevel ConvertersExpert discussions of cutting-edge methods used in MMC control, protection, and fault detectionIn Modular Multilevel Converters: Control, Fault Detection, and Protection, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive discussion of fault detection, protection, and tolerant control of modular multilevel converters (MMCs) under internal and external faults. Beginning with a description of th...

This book covers topics in 2 parts: 1) Review of FDA Guidance, 2) Novel Designs and Analyses. While covering basic principles of dose finding, this book details advancements made in drug development.Finding the right dose(s) is one of the most important objectives in new drug development. In Phase I clinical development, one of the objectives is to escalate test doses from low to high. The low doses should be safe, then escalate up to the maximally tolerable dose (MTD). Phase Ⅱ cli...

This book is the second volume of a two-volume book set which introduces software-defined chips. In this book, the programming model of the software-defined chips is analyzed by tracing the coevolution of modern general-purpose processors and programming models. The enhancement in hardware security and reliability of the software-defined chips are described from the perspective of dynamic and partial reconfiguration. The challenges and prospective trends of software-defined chips are also ...

The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, during October 19-22, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 315 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I : Post-Quantum Cryptography; Functional Encryption; Cryptanalysis and Implementations I; Cryptanalysis a...

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 book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Spatial Data and Intelligence, SpatialDI 2025, held in Xiamen, China, during April 17–19, 2025.The 17 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The conference focuses on generative AI and spatial data intelligence, spatiotemporal knowledge graphs and large geographic models, digital twins and smart cities, government spatiotemporal big data and data governance, em...

This Open access book is a collection of interviews published by China News Service, a Beijing-based news agency, in its “West-East Talk” column. It has been divided into five sections: “Mutual Learning Among Civilizations,” “Hot Issues,” “About China,” “Sino-U.S. Relations” and “Cultural Collision”. The interviews are with more than 50 eminent scholars, scientists, politicians, authors, etc., from different parts of the world as well as China, who have an association with China and see th...

This book presents essential methods of deformation compatibility control, and explicitly addresses the implied conditions on the methods’ deformation compatibility. Consequently, these conditions can be considered in engineering structure design, while the conditions on stable equilibrium can be taken into account in the design method. Thus, the designed deformation and the actual deformation of the respective structure are approximately identical, guaranteeing both the flexibility of the...

Soft power has become a very popular concept in international affairs, appearing in government policy papers, academic discussions, and the popular media. In China, soft power has become one of the most frequently used phrases among political leaders, leading academics, and journalists. Defined against hard power, which often involves threat and coercion, soft power applies attraction, persuasion, and cooperation, finding its sources in culture, political values, and foreign policies. Chin...

This is the first book of a two-volume book set which introduces software defined chips. In this book, it introduces the conceptual evolution of software defined chips from the development of integrated circuits and computing architectures. Technical principles, characteristics and key issues of software defined chips are systematically analyzed. The hardware architecture design methods are described involving architecture design primitives, hardware design spaces and agile design methods....