In late 2008, under the long shadow cast by the most severe economic crisis in generations, a revolutionary new form of currency was quietly being shaped. At the time no one could have predicted that an obscure form of electronic money would in less than a decade prove to be the most important financial innovation of the 21st century—a tool that would spark an entire new economic institution: crypto economy.That once-obscure money was known as Bitcoin, and today it is the highest v...

Lifelong Learning: The Education of the Aging Population focuses on the education of the aging population worldwide. The book includes studies representing a variety of perspectives and research methods, rich and informative in analyzing the issue under country-specific social, cultural, historical, economic, and political contexts, and strategies to improve life-long education of aging society.The chapters addressKey trends, status, major theories, and model...

These proceedings of the symposium ISIT 2014 aim to be a platform for international exchange of the state-of-the-art research and practice in information technology. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from theoretical and analytical studies to various applications.

This book focuses on modeling the anomalous diffusion phenomena, being ubiquitous in the natural world. Both the microscopic models (stochastic processes) and macroscopic models (partial differential equations) have been built up. The relationships between the two kinds of models are clarified, and based on these models, some statistical observables are analyzed. From statistics to mathematics, the built models show their power with their associated applications.This book is important for ...

Neuromorphic Photonic Devices and Applications synthesizes the most critical advances in photonic neuromorphic models, photonic material platforms and accelerators for neuromorphic computing. The book discusses fields and applications that can leverage these new platforms. A brief review of the historical development of the field is followed by a discussion of the emerging 2D photonic materials platforms and recent work in implementing neuromorphic models and 3D neuromorphic systems. The a...

This book covers the research fields in biodiversity conservation, the Belt and Road eco-environmental cooperation, China's five-year plan for eco-environmental protection, sustainable development goals assessment, and human health loss assessment. In the past, these achievements have played an important scientific role in supporting China's ecological and environmental protection, and produced extensive social impacts and significant environmental benefits. At the same time, the relevant ...

This book gathers selected papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Mathematics and Statistics held on June 24–26, 2023, in Chongqing, China. It presents the most recent research and advances in various areas of applied mathematics and statistics, span from mathematical theory, calculation, modeling, simulation, to applications such as big data and image processing.

“Real time” imaging techniques have assisted materials science studies especially for non-ambient environments. These techniques have never been collectively featured in a single venue. The book is an assembly of materials studies utilizing cutting edge real time imaging techniques, emphasizing the significance and impact of those techniques.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second BenchCouncil International Federated Intelligent Computing and Block Chain Conferences, FICC 2020, held in Qingdao, China, in October/ November 2020.The 32 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers of this volume are organized in topical sections on AI and medical technology; AI and big data; AI and block chain; AI and education technolog...

This book advocates new and advanced methods of big data technology so as to analyze the current status of the public space development in China. In the eight chapters of this book, it introduces the theories to develop urban public space, the tools for analytics and evaluation, the cases from China especially Shanghai and global. With analytics and evaluation tools for its scale, space layout, and planning, it aims to improve the quality, efficiency and balanced development of public serv...

This textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of international operations management, examining its principles, challenges, and strategies. It also introduces essential tools and frameworks that allow professionals to improve their management practices in a global context.Structured into twelve chapters, the book begins by introducing the distinctions between operations management and international operations management, laying the foundation and relevance of the subject. Subs...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies enable manufacturing systems to sense the environment, adapt to external needs, and extract process knowledge, including business models such as intelligent production, networked collaboration, and extended service models. This book therefore focuses on the implementation of AI in customized manufacturing (CM).The main topics include edge intelligence in manufacturing, heterogeneous networks, intelligent fault diagnosis and maintenance, dyn...