This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Computation and Systems, ICCCS 2025, held in Chengdu, China, November 22–23, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cognitive computing and Multimodal information processingPart II: Intelligent robotics

This book offers a comprehensive overview of using artificial intelligence and quantitative approaches in many phases of flight safety management, from proactive assessment of potential risks of flights before taking-off to automatic analysis of occurred flight events, for commercial airlines. Flight safety is commonly the core values of airlines. Serious flight disasters always bring tremendous impacts and losses to the industry and the society; thus, airlines and the authorities always t...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Computation and Systems, ICCCS 2025, held in Chengdu, China, November 22–23, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cognitive computing and Multimodal information processingPart II: Intelligent robotics

This book focuses on distributed event-triggered control of multi-agent systems, in which the event-triggering mechanism is utilized to reduce the communication frequencies in order to compensate for constrained network bandwidths, an aspect that poses significant challenges for distributed control design. The book summarizes the authors’ original, systematic contributions on scalability and robustness, two core issues in distributed event-triggered control. Specifically, the book presents...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge approaches for decision-making in hierarchical organizations. It presents soft-computing-based techniques, including fuzzy sets, neural networks, genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization, and shows how these approaches can be effectively used to deal with problems typical of this kind of organization. After introducing the main classical approaches applied to multiple-level programming, the book describes a set of soft-com...

Carbon dots (CDs) as an emerging carbon nanomaterial have attracted considerable attention and have been widely used in numerous fields. When compared with semiconductor quantum dots and organic dyes, CDs have a low toxicity, good biocompatibility and good anti-photobleaching. These qualities give them the potential to be a greener optical probe than other types of quantum dots and organic dyes.Covering several common synthesis strategies, including biomass synthesis, large-scale s...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2018, held in Xi’an, China, in July 2018.The 83 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: neural computation; biologically inspired systems; image recognition: detection, tracking and classification; data analysis and natural language processing; ...

This monograph presents rigorous analysis and design process of the fixed-time/prescribed-time FTC strategy for quadrotor UAVs, fixed-wing UAVs, unmanned helicopter,and UAVs-UGVs system. The design methods can adjust the structure and parameters of the system controller in a timely manner, ensuring the safety of the unmanned systems and restoring critical control performance as soon as possible. Therefore, these research results will enrich the development of FTC for multiple unmanned syst...

Flexible Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and SensorsA systematic and complete discussion of the latest progress in flexible piezoelectric energy harvesting and sensing technologiesIn Flexible Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and Sensors, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive exploration of the design methods, working mechanisms, microfabrication processes, and applications of flexible energy harvesters for wea...

In this volume, Prof. Ye and his coworkers propose and review the concept of nano-bio probe design for biochemical analysis on the basis of their recent published works. A unique biochemical analysis technology based on fluorescence polarization enhanced by nanoparticles is described here with successful applications in environmental monitoring, rapid and sensitive sensing protease activity and high-throughput screening of inhibitors. Furthermore, they introduce a versatile molecular beaco...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Computation and Systems, ICCCS 2024, held in Linyi, China, December 20–22, 2024.The 54 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 155 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cognitive computing and information processing; Intelligent cooperative control; and Learning and systems.Pa...

This book provides a broad introduction to all major aspects of quantum dot properties including fluorescence, electrochemical, photochemical and electroluminescence. Such properties have been produced for applications in biosensing, cell tracking, in vivo animal imaging and so on. It focuses on their special applications in DNA biosensing and provides readers with detailed information on the preparation and functionalization of quantum dots and the fabrication of DNA biosensors, using exa...