The definitive--and by far the most popular--guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happinessNotice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we suffer from nature deficit disorder, but studies have shown that spending mindful, intentional time around trees--what the Japanese call shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing...

This book focuses on advancing the integration of multimodal data (text, images, and structured knowledge) to enable precise knowledge extraction and human-like reasoning. The book’s primary objective is to address critical challenges such as modality gaps, semantic misalignment, dataset biases, and static reasoning paradigms. By introducing novel frameworks that unify graph-based learning, hierarchical representation, bias mitigation, and iterative refinement, this book provides systemati...

This three-volume set LNCS 16431-16433 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2025 held in Hong Kong SAR, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 18 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions.These papers focus on various aspects of social computing, applied psychology, behaviour pattern learning, text and sentimentanalysi...

This book systematically explores how to build reliable, cross-platform multimodal event detection systems that operate under open-world conditions in today's complex social media environment. It delves into three core challenges: information fragmentation caused by incomplete individual posts; cross-platform heterogeneity arising from the diverse ways different platforms (e.g., Twitter, Flickr) represent events; and the challenge of open-world discovery driven by the constant emergence of...

This book focuses on the challenges of stability analysis and control synthesis for nonlinear dynamical systems, including stochastic systems, multi-agent systems, and nonholonomic systmes. With the adaptive Nussbaum design, this book investigates the asymptotic stabilization problem for nonlinear systems, addressing practical constraints such as physical limitations on system states to ensure safety. Furthermore, this book develops fixed-time stable design to enhance the dynamic performan...

Intelligent computing is a computational approach primarily inspired by the objective laws governing biological groups in nature, as well as the behaviors of biological thinking and movement. It encompasses various algorithmic fields such as evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence computation, neural computation, and more. These algorithms typically achieve the goals of intelligent computing by simulating the distinctive functions of certain species in nature or specific characteristi...

This book proposes a method for grid integration assessment and certification of renewable energy , mainly through on-site inspection, simulation and on-site testing. It has established a renewable energy grid integrated certification system, combining "standards-test-certify", which is an effective means to ensure the power performance of renewable energy. The content of this book is selective, forward-looking and practical. It is easy to understand, with theoretical and technical analysi...

As a well-known text mining tool, topic modeling can effectively discover the latent semantic structure of text data. Extracting topics from documents is also one of the fundamental challenges in natural language processing. Although topic models have seen significant achievements over the past three decades, there remains a scarcity of methods that effectively model temporal aspect. Moreover, many contemporary topic models continue to grapple with the issue of noise contamination, particu...

Edge computing has been identified as one of the key technologies for 5G networks and beyond due to two prominent advantages: low network latency and reduced core network load. By empowering cloud capabilities and IT service environments at the network edge, edge computing can well support applications of 5G and beyond, such as augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), vehicular network (ultra-reliable low-latency communication services)，Internet of Things (massive machine type communication serv...

This three-volume set LNCS 16431-16433 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2025 held in Hong Kong SAR, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 18 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions.These papers focus on various aspects of social computing, applied psychology, behaviour pattern learning, text and sentimentanalysi...

This book presents the state-of-the-art-knowledge on corrosion of steel, cast iron and ductile iron with a focus on corrosion-induced degradation of their mechanical properties. The information presented in the book is largely derived from the most current research on the effect of corrosion on degradation of mechanical properties. The book covers the basics of steel corrosion, including that of cast iron and ductile iron, that are not well covered in most literature. Models for corrosion-...

This three-volume set LNCS 16431-16433 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2025 held in Hong Kong SAR, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 18 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions.These papers focus on various aspects of social computing, applied psychology, behaviour pattern learning, text and sentimentanalysi...