This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Computation and Systems, ICCCS 2025, held in Chengdu, China, November 22–23, 2025.The 79 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cognitive computing and Multimodal information processingPart II: Intelligent robotics

**Working in a Chinese tea garden is hard work, but it's rewarding when it’s done with family in this 2026 Batchelder Honor Book.This day-in-the-life picture book for 5-9-year-olds engages the senses as it centers around family and working together while celebrating Chinese culture.**A young boy and his brother travel with their parents up the mountainside to their tea garden for a day of work.They delight in the animals they see, compete to see who can pick the mos...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Computation and Systems, ICCCS 2024, held in Linyi, China, December 20–22, 2024.The 54 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 155 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cognitive computing and information processing; Intelligent cooperative control; and Learning and systems.Pa...

Against the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today’s world, civil societies remain vibrant, animated by people’s belief that they should and can solve such issues and build a better society. Their imagination of a good society, their understanding of their engagement, and the ways they choose to act constitute the cultural aspect of civil society.Central to this cultural aspect of civil society is the “culture of democracy,” including normative values, individual interpretation...

In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past. Exploring representations of memory including personal life stories, literature, museum exhibits, and acts of commemoration, he argues that these representations are defined by a struggle to reconcile worthiness with the political upheavals of...

This book CCIS 2774 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th CCF National Conference of Computer Applications, CCF NCCA 2025, held in Beijing, China, during August 7–9, 2025.The 43 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 269 submissions. These papers have been organized in the following topical sections:Artificial Intelligence and ApplicationsCyberspace Security TechnologyData Science and Big Data Technology

The two-volume set CCIS 1959 and 1960 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 38th CCF National Conference on Computer Applications, CCF NCCA 2023, held in Suzhou, China, during July 16–20, 2023.The 39 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 197 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Volume I:Artificial intelligence and application.Volume II:Data...

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed 87,000 people and left 5 million homeless. In response to the devastation, an unprecedented wave of volunteers and civic associations streamed into Sichuan to offer help. The Politics of Compassion examines how civically engaged citizens acted on the ground, how they understood the meaning of their actions, and how the political climate shaped their actions and understandings.Using extensive data from interviews, observations, and textual...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Cognitive Computation and Systems, ICCCS 2024, held in Linyi, China, December 20–22, 2024.The 54 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 155 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cognitive computing and information processing; Intelligent cooperative control; and Learning and systems.Pa...

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of the 18th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing and the 13th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Graphs, CCKS-IJCKG 2024, held in Chongqing, China, during September 20–22, 2024.The 30 full papers and 11 other papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Knowledge representation and reasoning; Knowledg...

This book introduces the cutting-edge technology of micro/nano structure fabrication from precision machining, electrical discharge machining (EDM) and precision grinding and injection molding, the contents of the presented book includes but not limited to the machining process, cutting tool preparation, tool path generation, and surface evaluation. This book provides a variety of feasible fabrication methods and advanced manufacturing techniques for the precision fabrication of micro/nano...

This book offers data-based insights into the problems of translation education and their causes in the context of localization and globalization in the era of big data. By examining language services around the globe, illustrating applications of big-data technology and their future development, and describing crowdsourcing and online collaborative translations, speech-to-speech translation and cloud-based translation, it makes readers aware of the important changes taking place in the pr...