This book describes the reliability research results and experience of BeiDou navigation satellite in engineering development. According to the characteristics of high reliability and high availability, this book discusses the reliability requirements, reliability design, reliability modeling, and reliability analysis of navigation satellite and constellation, focusing on the demonstration and decomposition of reliability requirements, constellation availability design, satellite availabil...

This book reviews the development of physics-based modeling and sensor-based data fusion for optimizing medical decision making in connection with spatiotemporal cardiovascular disease processes. To improve cardiac care services and patients’ quality of life, it is very important to detect heart diseases early and optimize medical decision making. This book introduces recent research advances in machine learning, physics-based modeling, and simulation optimization to fully exploit medical ...

An elaborate and pervasive set of practices, called guanxi, underlies everyday social relationships in contemporary China. Obtaining and changing job assignments, buying certain foods and consumer items, getting into good hospitals, buying train tickets, obtaining housing, even doing business—all such tasks call for the skillful and strategic giving of gifts and cultivating of obligation, indebtedness, and reciprocity.Mayfair Mei-hui Yang's close scrutiny of this phenomenon serves ...

As a well-known text mining tool, topic modeling can effectively discover the latent semantic structure of text data. Extracting topics from documents is also one of the fundamental challenges in natural language processing. Although topic models have seen significant achievements over the past three decades, there remains a scarcity of methods that effectively model temporal aspect. Moreover, many contemporary topic models continue to grapple with the issue of noise contamination, particu...

Can artificial intelligence learn mathematics? The question is at the heart of this original monograph bringing together theoretical physics, modern geometry, and data science.The study of Calabi–Yau manifolds lies at an exciting intersection between physics and mathematics. Recently, there has been much activity in applying machine learning to solve otherwise intractable problems, to conjecture new formulae, or to understand the underlying structure of mathematics. In this book, i...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2020, held virtually as part of SCF 2020, in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2020.The 7 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions.The conference proceeding EDGE 2020 presents the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of edge computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future ...

This book offers a focused collection of lectures and tutorials on applying machine learning techniques to research in theoretical physics and pure mathematics. Machine learning continues to transform the scientific landscape, providing powerful tools capable of driving significant advances across these disciplines. Through clear conceptual explanations and practical examples, this text equips students and researchers with the knowledge and skills needed to integrate these methods into the...

This book introduces the latest research developments in composite nanomaterials and summarizes the fundamentals and technical approaches in synthesis, fabrication and processing of composite nanomaterials. The author describes the intrinsic relationship between the catalytic properties and the physical and chemical effects in the composite materials, providing for theoretical and technical bases for effectively developing novel electrocatalyst - applications of the nanocomposites in energ...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on IoT as a Service, IoTaaS 2018, which took place in Xi’an, China, in November 2018. The 50 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 83 submissions. The technical track present IoT-based services in various applications. In addition, there are three workshops: international workshop on edge computing for 5G/IoT, international workshop on green communications for inter...

Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai’an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1580–1644), originally published in 1628. The forty lively stories gathered here present a broad picture of traditional Chinese society and include characters from all social levels. We learn of their joys and sorrows, their views about life and death, and their visions of the underworld and the supernatural.Ling was a connoisseur of ...

“The Renowned People of China” presents in a bilingual English/Chinese edition an overview of the main personalities who have shaped China: writers and philosophers, scientists, engineers, doctors, emperors, military men, etc.

This book is one of the first to systematically explore cultural interactions between the Northern Zone of China and the Eurasian Steppe, with a focus on the formation process of the Xiongnu Confederation and the Silk Road. Combining partition and staging analyses, the authors adopt a broad perspective, viewing the Northern Zone as part of the Eurasian Steppe and combining history with culture by investigating the spread of bronze artifacts. In addition, with more than three hundred figure...