Offering a broader understanding of contemporary architecture and urbanism in Asia, Francis Chia Hui Lin raises questions from 'non-conventional' ('non-Western') perspectives that can adapt and enrich conventional understanding in an Asian context.With a strategic focus on urban maritime Asia, this book highlights key postcolonial concepts, locales, and the agency of the postcolonial condition of Asian architecture in a global context. Addressing the conventional i...

Teacher Preparation in Taiwan offers an analytically rich account of how teacher education has been shaped through the transnational circulation of ideas, institutions, and modes of governance.Taiwan represents both a geographically understudied and a national context in which to examine the historical origins and contemporary dynamics of teacher preparation and education policy. The book demonstrates that Taiwan’s teacher education system has been constituted through sust...

This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks, I-SPAN 2025 and 13th International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing, Ubi-Media 2025 held in Bangkok, Thailand, in January 19–23, 2025.The 36 full papers and 16 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. They are categorized into the following topical sections:Part 1: Edg...

This book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding architecture and urbanism in Asia through the intertwined metaphors of the postcolonial, the urban, and the maritime.It positions Asia not as a cultural identity or fixed geography, but as a methodological horizon shaped by articulation, negotiation, and discontinuous historicity. Against universalising narratives that treat Asian architecture as derivative or exceptional, this book foregrounds entanglement and circul...

Guidance for security-oriented management of operational technology and insights on new cyber-physical security solutions for smart grids and renewable energyCyber-Physical Security and Resilience for Smart Grids and Renewable Energy describes state-of-the-art technologies of cyber security approaches to increase the resilience of cyber-physical infrastructures used by power grids. It begins by presenting fundamental knowledge of cyber security, computer n...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing, Ubi-Media 2026, held in Penang, Malaysia, during January 18–22, 2026.The 26 full papers and 19 short papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 84 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI-Enhanced Education and Intelligent Learning Systems; Generative AI and Learning Analytics; Multimedia, Social Computing, and Human-Cen...

When the Yellow River Floods explores the relationship between environmental degradation, hydraulic engineering, and nation-building in the context of Liu E’s The Travels of Lao Can. This book contributes to the field by providing a unique perspective on modern Chinese literary history that goes beyond conventional narratives that focus solely on political and cultural factors. The main areas covered include the role of water management in literary nation-building and the connecti...

This book aims to increase the visibility of data science in real-world, which differs from what you learn from a typical textbook. Many aspects of day-to-day data science work are almost absent from conventional statistics, machine learning, and data science curriculum. Yet these activities account for a considerable share of the time and effort for data professionals in the industry. Based on industry experience, this book outlines real-world scenarios and discusses pitfalls that data sc...

This book provides a bidirectional investigation of Asia’s spatiotemporality by asking how Asia is located and how localities are Asianized. Historical and theoretical inquiries into architecture and urbanism in order to trace a notional “common divisor” are integrated with readings of this Asian imagery. Such a common divisor is conditioned to Asia’s phenomenal postcolonial subjectivation and showcases Asia’s unique character. This book contends that the postcolonial condition of architec...

This 2-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms and Networks, I-SPAN 2025 and 13th International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing, Ubi-Media 2025 held in Bangkok, Thailand, in January 19–23, 2025.The 36 full papers and 16 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 95 submissions. They are categorized into the following topical sections:Part 1: Edg...

Remote Sensing of Impervious Surfaces in Tropical and Subtropical Areas offers a complete and thorough system for using optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing data for improving impervious surface estimation (ISE). Highlighting tropical and subtropical areas where there is significant cloud occurrence and varying phenology, the b

Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan’s maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan’s urban environment and its recent changes and development through architecture.Focussing on the concept of a heteroglossic Asia Pacific, exemplified by the analysis of Taiwan’s urban transformation,...