This book establishes a unified framework for dealing with typical engineering complications arising in modern, complex, large-scale networks such as parameter uncertainties, missing measurement and cyber-attack. Distributed Filtering, Control and Synchronization is a timely reflection on methods designed to handle a series of control and signal-processing issues in modern industrial engineering practice in areas like power grids and environmental monitoring.It exploits th...

This volume contains three expanded lecture notes from the program Scalar Curvature in Manifold Topology and Conformal Geometry that was held at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences from 1 November to 31 December 2014. The first chapter surveys the recent developments on the fourth-order equations with negative exponent from geometric points of view such as positive mass theorem and uniqueness results. The next chapter deals with the recent important progress on several conjectures such...

Los ensayos del filósofo Han Fei Zi sobre el gobierno autocrático impresionaron al emperador Qin Shi Huang, que adoptó sus principios después de tomar el poder en el año 221 a. C.2 Este libro, que comprende una síntesis de teorías legales hasta su época, resalta el papel de tres grandes instrumentos básicos en la gestión del poder: la autoridad, el método y manejo de los hombres, y la ley. Han Fei Zi fue un gran sintetizador de ideas y sus posibilidades interpretativas pueden ser de gran u...

The Han Feizi (Chinese: 韩非子) is an ancient Chinese text attributed to foundational political philosopher,"Master" Han Fei. It comprises a selection of essays in the "Legalist" tradition on theories of state power, synthesizing the methodologies of his predecessors. Its 55 chapters, most of which date to the Warring States period mid-3rd century BC, are the only such text to survive intact. Easily one of the most important philosophical classics in ancient China, it touc...

Despite its increasingly secure place in the world, the People's Republic of China remains dissatisfied with its global status. Its growing material power has simultaneously led to both greater influence and unsettling questions about its international intentions. China also has found itself in a constant struggle to balance its aspirations abroad with a daunting domestic agenda. This authoritative book provides a unique exploration of the complex and dynamic motivations behind Beijing's f...

This celebration of Chinese Science Fiction — thirteen stories, all translated for the first time into English — represents a unique exploration of the nation’s speculative fiction from the late 20th century onwards, curated and translated by critically acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting Christine Ni.From the renowned Jiang Bo’s ‘Starship: Library' to Regina Kanyu Wang’s ‘The Tide of Moon City', and Anna Wu’s ‘Meisje met de Parel', this is a collection for all f...

Peu d'ouvrages ont eu une importance aussi décisive que le Han Fei Zi, car peu ont su décrire avec autant de précision l'art de gouverner, c'est-à-dire d'obtenir le pouvoir et, surtout, de le conserver. On rapproche souvent ce recueil des écrits de Han Fei et du Prince de Machiavel.Le Han Fei Zi, profondément imprégné de pensée taoïste, ne se réduit pas à une somme de trucs et de manoeuvres. Il constitue l'une des méditations les plus abouties sur la fonction monarchique. La chose la plus ...

Han Fei, who died in 233 BC, was one of the primary philosophers of China’s classical era, a reputation still intact despite recent neglect. This edited volume on the thinker, his views on politics and philosophy, and the tensions of his relations with Confucianism (which he derided) is the first of its kind in English.Featuring contributions from specialists in various disciplines including religious studies and literature, this new addition to the Dao Companions to Chinese Ph...

This book constitutes selected papers of the Third International Conference on Data Science, Medicine and Bioinformatics, IDMB 2019, held in Nanning, China, in June 2019.The 19 full papers and 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 93 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: business data science: fintech, management, and analytics.- health and biological data science.- novel data science theory and applications.

This three-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2021, held in Tokyo, Japan, in August 2021.The 164 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 492 submissions. The contributions are organized in the following topical sections: knowledge science with learning and AI; knowledge engineering research and applications; knowledge management with optimization and securi...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2021, held in Sydney, Australia in February 2022.*The 26 full papers presented together with 35 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections in Part I, including: Healthcare, Education, Web Application and On-device application.* The conference was originally planned for December 20...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2021, held in Sydney, Australia in February 2022.*The 26 full papers presented together with 35 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections in Part II named: Pattern mining; Graph mining; Text mining; Multimedia and time series data mining; and Classification, clustering and recommendation...