This book studies and comprehends the strategic concept of the Belt and Road and presents China's glorious achievements in the field of diplomacy from five aspects, namely 'build a community of shared future for mankind', 'build new type of international relations taking win-win cooperation as core', 'practice the right view of rightness and benefit', 'lead the reform of global governance system', and 'promote the strategic concept of the Belt and Road'. It focuses on the ...

Opening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant influence on the development of contemporary Chinese thought, the volume's contributors explore concerns over the role of the intellectual and the outcomes of knowledge production in the humanities. Masterfully translated, these essays pr...

This book focuses on the design and development of flight control for micro-small fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The content is progressively deepened and closely linked to current engineering practices. By conducting an in-depth study of several key themes—such as UAV design, modeling, single-machine control and planning, swarm control and planning, and the development of visual perception algorithms—this book enables readers with no prior background to grasp advanced develop...

Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern China collects essays from the scholars in their fields and examines the ongoing corruption in China by addressing this important topic from a historical perspective through a cooperative interdisciplinary research effort among Chinese-American scholars interested in the subject. Their scholarship makes a significant contribution through multi-faceted components from different fields such as history, economics, political science, criminal justice, a...

The recent appearance of wavelets as a new computational tool in applied mathematics has given a new impetus to the field of numerical analysis of Fredholm integral equations. This book gives an account of the state of the art in the study of fast multiscale methods for solving these equations based on wavelets. The authors begin by introducing essential concepts and describing conventional numerical methods. They then develop fast algorithms and apply these to solving linear, nonlinear Fr...

Untethered Miniature Soft RobotsReference on achieving contactless manipulation of soft robots, detailing high level concepts and perspectives and technical skills of soft robotsUntethered Miniature Soft Robots: Materials, Fabrications, and Applications introduces the emerging field of miniature soft robots and summarizes the recent rapid development in the field to date, describing different types of functional materials to build ...

This book reports on the latest advances in the study of Networked Control Systems (NCSs). It highlights novel research concepts on NCSs; the analysis and synthesis of NCSs with special attention to their networked character; self- and event-triggered communication schemes for conserving limited network resources; and communication and control co-design for improving the efficiency of NCSs. The book will be of interest to university researchers, control and network engineers, and graduate ...

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible?With over 50 original essays by leadin...

This book offers an introduction to various models and methods for green supplier evaluation and selection (GSES) within different information settings. As such, it provides valuable knowledge, useful GSES methods and practical examples that can be considered by manufacturers in selecting appropriate green suppliers to improve their environmental performance and customer satisfaction. This book is useful for practitioners and researchers working in the fields of supply chain management, op...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium, KSS 2016, held in Kobe, Japan, in November 2016.The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers cover topics such as: Algorithms for Big Data; Big Data and education; Big Data and healthcare; Big Data and tourism; Big Data and social media oriented knowledge discovery and data mining, text mining, recommendation system, etc; Big Data, social ...

The three-volume set CCIS 761, CCIS 762, and CCIS 763 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2017, and of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2017, held in Nanjing, China, in September 2017. The 208 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from over 625 submissions.The papers of this volume are organized in to...

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...