An anthology of unsettling tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the very first time.Fourteen dazzling horror stories delve deep into the psyche of modern China in this new anthology curated by acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting C. Ni, editor and translator of the British Fantasy Award-winning Sinopticon.From the menacing vision of a red umbrella, to the ominous atmosphere of the Laughing Mountain; from the waking dream of virtual wo...

The 4-volume set LNCS constitutes the main proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2025, which took place in Singapore, Singapore, during July 7–9, 2025.The 64 full papers and 52 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The ICCS 2025 main track full papers are organized in volumes 15903–15905 (Parts I to III) and the ICCS 2025 main track short papers are included in volume 15906 (P...

The main focus of this book is a pair of cooperative control problems: consensus and cooperative output regulation. Its emphasis is on complex multi-agent systems characterized by strong nonlinearity, large uncertainty, heterogeneity, external disturbances and jointly connected switching communication topologies. The cooperative output regulation problem is a generalization of the classical output regulation problem to multi-agent systems and it offers a general framework for handling a va...

The 4-volume set LNCS constitutes the main proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2025, which took place in Singapore, Singapore, during July 7–9, 2025.The 64 full papers and 52 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The ICCS 2025 main track full papers are organized in volumes 15903–15905 (Parts I to III) and the ICCS 2025 main track short papers are included in volume 15906 (P...

The 4-volume set LNCS constitutes the main proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2025, which took place in Singapore, Singapore, during July 7–9, 2025.The 64 full papers and 52 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The ICCS 2025 main track full papers are organized in volumes 15903–15905 (Parts I to III) and the ICCS 2025 main track short papers are included in volume 15906 (P...

The 4-volume set LNCS constitutes the main proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2025, which took place in Singapore, Singapore, during July 7–9, 2025.The 64 full papers and 52 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The ICCS 2025 main track full papers are organized in volumes 15903–15905 (Parts I to III) and the ICCS 2025 main track short papers are included in volume 15906 (P...

This book introduces readers to the latest state of research and development in seamless learning. It consolidates various approaches to and practices in seamless learning from a range of techno-pedagogical, socio-situated and socio-cultural perspectives. Further, it details our current understanding of learning in both formal and informal settings, crossover learning, incidental learning, and context-based learning approaches, together with these aspects’ linkages to the notion of seamles...