This book provides a thorough overview of the evolution of privacy-preserving machine learning schemes over the last ten years, after discussing the importance of privacy-preserving techniques. In response to the diversity of Internet services, data services based on machine learning are now available for various applications, including risk assessment and image recognition. In light of open access to datasets and not fully trusted environments, machine learning-based applications face eno...

Western and East Asian people hold fundamentally different beliefs about learning that influence how they approach child rearing and education. Reviewing decades of research, Dr Jin Li presents an important conceptual distinction between the Western mind model and the East Asian virtue model of learning. The former aims to cultivate the mind to understand the world, whereas the latter prioritizes the self to be perfected morally and socially. Tracing the cultural origins of the two large i...

Ba Jin, one of the main figures of twentieth century Chinese literature, died in Shanghai on the 17th of October 2005. He was also a survivor of the Chinese anarchist movement that disappeared with the victory of the Communists. While he was required to ‘repent’, and purged and humiliated during the Cultural Revolution, he never embraced any other ideal.Ba Jin was born in 1904 in Chengdu, Sichuan province, into a wealthy family. Economically comfortable but personally stifling, he ...

The six-volume set, LNCS 15251-15256, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2024, held in Macau, China, during October 29–31, 2024.The 91 full papers, 35 short papers and 5 workshop papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 265 submissions. They focus on the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoret...

This book constitutes revised and selected papers from the 6th International Symposium on Security and Privacy in Social Networks and Big Data, SocialSec 2020, held in Tianjin, China, in September 2020.The 38 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 111 submissions. The papers are organized according to the topical sections on big data security; social networks; privacy-preserving and security.

The six-volume set, LNCS 15251-15256, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2024, held in Macau, China, during October 29–31, 2024.The 91 full papers, 35 short papers and 5 workshop papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 265 submissions. They focus on the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoret...

This two-volume set LNCS 14509-14510, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Security and Privacy, AIS&P 2023, held in Guangzhou, China, during December 3–5, 2023.The 40 regular papers and 23 workshop papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions.Topics of interest include, e.g., attacks and defence on AI systems; adversarial learning; privacy-preserving data m...

This brief provides a comprehensive introduction on the flow-induced instabilities (e.g., the pressure fluctuations and the vibrations) of the reversible pump turbines (RPTs) in the pumped hydro energy storage power stations (PHSEPSs) in China based on long-term field tests. The pressure fluctuations and the vibrations of several RPTs in China under different operational conditions are analysed in detail to reveal their generation mechanisms and propagation characteristics. The book presen...

Celebrate old friends, make new ones, and learn how to navigate sticky friendship situations with this fun and helpful guidebook.Good friends make you laugh until your stomach hurts, support you during tough times, and brighten even the gloomiest of days. But like all relationships, friendships can be complicated. The tricky stuff, like figuring out how to make new friends, navigating group dynamics, and getting through arguments, might have you feeling overwhelmed. This guide to f...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd CCF Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, NCCET 2018, held in Yinchuan, China, in August 2018.The 17 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They address topics such as processor architecture; application specific processors; computer application and software optimization; technology on the horizon.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th CCF Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, NCCET 2016, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2016.The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on processor architecture; application specific processors; computer application and software optimization; technology on the horizon.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Security, Privacy in New Computing Environments, CloudComp 2016, and the First EAI International Conference SPNCE 2016, both held in Guangzhou, China, in November and December 2016.The proceedings contain 10 full papers selected from 27 submissions and presented at CloudComp 2016 and 12 full papers selected from 69 submissions and presented at SPNCE 2016. CloudComp 2016 presents r...