By focusing on the theory and techniques of tribological design and testing for bearings, this book systematically reviews the latest advances in applications for this field. It describes advanced tribological design, theory and methods, and provides practical technical references for investments in bearing design and manufacturing. The theories, methods and cases in this book are largely derived from the practical engineering experience gained and research conducted by the author and her ...

The two-volume set LNAI 15497 and LNAI 15498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2024, held in Hefei, China, during December 6–8, 2024.The 56 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions.These papers deal with various aspects of brain inspired cognitive systems, focusing on latest advancements in brain-inspired computing; artificial intelli...

The two-volume set LNAI 15497 and LNAI 15498 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2024, held in Hefei, China, during December 6–8, 2024.The 56 full papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 124 submissions.These papers deal with various aspects of brain inspired cognitive systems, focusing on latest advancements in brain-inspired computing; artificial intelli...

The five-volume set constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2024, and of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2024, which were held during September 13-15, in Suzhou, China.The 29 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from over 496 submissions. The LSMS and ICSEE international conference series aim to bring toget...

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...

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Cold Climate HVAC and Energy 2025 (CCHVAC2025), held on August 6-8, in Harbin, China. It focuses on novel techniques for renewable and waste energy utilization, sustainable district heating and cooling, heat pump, smart energy system, and zero energy buildings. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, engineers in the industry, and regulators of HVAC and energy authorities. As w...

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 book is a compilation of selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Cold Climate HVAC and Energy 2025 (CCHVAC2025), held on August 6-8, in Harbin, China. It focuses on novel techniques for renewable and waste energy utilization, sustainable district heating and cooling, heat pump, smart energy system, and zero energy buildings. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, engineers in the industry, and regulators of HVAC and energy authorities. As w...

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 II named: Pattern mining; Graph mining; Text mining; Multimedia and time series data mining; and Classification, clustering and recommendation...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Applications, WISA 2023, held in Chengdu, China, in September 2023.The 43 full papers and 9 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 213 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Recommender Systems, Natural Language Processing, Security, Privacy and Trust, Blockchain, Parallel and Distri...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Well-Being in the Information Society, WIS 2022, held in Turku, Finland, in August 2022.The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The proceedings are structured in four sections as follows: mental well-being and e-health; social media and well-being; innovative solution for well-being in the information society; driving well-being in the informa...