This book provides an analytic description of the converging trend entailed by the technological development related to cinema industries. It is becoming essential for the development of the cinema industry to settle the competition issues raised by the convergence trade. Furthermore, this book tries to define the relationship between the production, distribution and exhibition stages of the cinema industry. In the end, this book explores the impact the latest technology can have on the ov...

The Beauty of Mathematics in Computer Science explains the mathematical fundamentals of information technology products and services we use every day, from Google Web Search to GPS Navigation, and from speech recognition to CDMA mobile services. The book was published in Chinese in 2011 and has sold more than 600,000 copies. Readers were surprised to find that many daily-used IT technologies were so tightly tied to mathematical principles. For example, the automatic classi...

This book proposes the concept of a multi-layer pavement system to fulfill the blast resistance requirement for pavement design. It also presents a damage pattern chart for multi-layer pavement design and rapid repair after blast load. Such a multi-layer system consists of three layers including asphalt concrete (AC) reinforced with Geogrid (GST) at the top, a high-strength concrete (HSC) layer in the middle, and engineered cementitious composites (ECC) at the bottom. A series of large-sca...

Remapping China at the East-West Intersection, composed predominantly from back copies of Critical Arts, draws on the rich reservoir of studies that map a diverse range of research on Chinese literature, art and culture at the intersection of East-West encounters. This compilation offers a comprehensive exploration of Chinese cultural studies through the lens of global dialogism and intercultural exchange. Structured into four thematic sections—Overview, Chinese Narrative...

This book starts with detailed community-based poverty-alleviation cases and focuses on several important aspects in this field to demonstrate the intervention methods, theoretical paradigms, and intervention models of poverty-alleviation social work. Based on the introduction to the characteristics, theoretical foundation, and practical model of community-based poverty-alleviation social work, this book elaborates the specific operation processes from the perspectives of community interve...

Modern acoustics has blossomed rapidly in the past decades. Beginning as a branch off from the classical physics, modern acoustics has become an interdisciplinary science that has exceeded the boundaries of its origins. As a result, the demand for graduate students, professionals and specialists who need to master the knowledge of acoustics is growing quickly. The primary goal of this publication is to meet this urgent need by providing an updated, comprehensive reference book that educate...

This open access book collects eight reports from the specialist committees, presented and discussed at the 22nd International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC 2025) held in Wuxi, China, on September 22–26, 2025. This congress aims to further understand various disciplines underpinning marine structural design, production and operation through internationally collaborative endeavors. It provides a forum to exchange the latest research development in marine structural research fo...

This book reflects the latest research trends, methods, and experimental results in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas. As a vital research area that is highly relevant to current developments in a number of technological domains, the topics covered include Autonomous Transportation Systems, Autonomous Transportation Management and Control Technology, Autonomous Transportation Equipment Tech...

This book reflects the latest research trends, methods and experimental results in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas. As a vital research area that is highly relevant to current developments in a number of technological domains, the topics covered include Autonomous Transportation Systems, Autonomous Transportation Management and Control Technology, Autonomous Transportation Equipment Techn...

This open access book collects the official discussers’ reports and all floor discussions, including the replies by the committees, presented at the 22nd International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC 2025) held in Wuxi, China, on September 22–26, 2025. This congress aims to further understand various disciplines underpinning marine structural design, production and operation through internationally collaborative endeavors. It provides a forum to exchange latest research develop...

Although the particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithm requires relatively few parameters and is computationally simple and easy to implement, it is not a globally convergent algorithm. In Particle Swarm Optimisation: Classical and Quantum Perspectives, the authors introduce their concept of quantum-behaved particles inspired by quantum mechanics, which leads to the quantum-behaved particle swarm optimisation (QPSO) algorithm. This globally convergent algorithm has fewer...

This two volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th EAI International Conference on Communications and Networking, ChinaCom 2019, held in November/December 2019 in Shanghai, China. The 81 papers presented were carefully selected from 162 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Internet of Things (IoT), antenna, microwave and cellular communication, wireless communications and networking, network and information security, communication QoS, reliability ...