This book offers a comprehensive overview of using artificial intelligence and quantitative approaches in many phases of flight safety management, from proactive assessment of potential risks of flights before taking-off to automatic analysis of occurred flight events, for commercial airlines. Flight safety is commonly the core values of airlines. Serious flight disasters always bring tremendous impacts and losses to the industry and the society; thus, airlines and the authorities always t...

This book focuses on distributed event-triggered control of multi-agent systems, in which the event-triggering mechanism is utilized to reduce the communication frequencies in order to compensate for constrained network bandwidths, an aspect that poses significant challenges for distributed control design. The book summarizes the authors’ original, systematic contributions on scalability and robustness, two core issues in distributed event-triggered control. Specifically, the book presents...

In this volume, Prof. Ye and his coworkers propose and review the concept of nano-bio probe design for biochemical analysis on the basis of their recent published works. A unique biochemical analysis technology based on fluorescence polarization enhanced by nanoparticles is described here with successful applications in environmental monitoring, rapid and sensitive sensing protease activity and high-throughput screening of inhibitors. Furthermore, they introduce a versatile molecular beaco...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge approaches for decision-making in hierarchical organizations. It presents soft-computing-based techniques, including fuzzy sets, neural networks, genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization, and shows how these approaches can be effectively used to deal with problems typical of this kind of organization. After introducing the main classical approaches applied to multiple-level programming, the book describes a set of soft-com...

This monograph presents rigorous analysis and design process of the fixed-time/prescribed-time FTC strategy for quadrotor UAVs, fixed-wing UAVs, unmanned helicopter,and UAVs-UGVs system. The design methods can adjust the structure and parameters of the system controller in a timely manner, ensuring the safety of the unmanned systems and restoring critical control performance as soon as possible. Therefore, these research results will enrich the development of FTC for multiple unmanned syst...

Flexible Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and SensorsA systematic and complete discussion of the latest progress in flexible piezoelectric energy harvesting and sensing technologiesIn Flexible Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and Sensors, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive exploration of the design methods, working mechanisms, microfabrication processes, and applications of flexible energy harvesters for wea...

This book systematically studies the stochastic non-cooperative differential game theory of generalized linear Markov jump systems and its application in the field of finance and insurance. The book is an in-depth research book of the continuous time and discrete time linear quadratic stochastic differential game, in order to establish a relatively complete framework of dynamic non-cooperative differential game theory. It uses the method of dynamic programming principle and Riccati equatio...

This book introduces the application of computer vision (CV) and AI technologies to indoor personnel information monitoring, outdoor thermal environment monitoring, construction safety monitoring, and HVAC equipment monitoring.Computer Vision and AI for Indoor/Outdoor Thermal Environment*, Construction Safety, and HVAC Equipment Monitoring* explores non-contact measurement techniques relevant to the field of indoor human information and their applications in on-demand regu...

Carbon dots (CDs) as an emerging carbon nanomaterial have attracted considerable attention and have been widely used in numerous fields. When compared with semiconductor quantum dots and organic dyes, CDs have a low toxicity, good biocompatibility and good anti-photobleaching. These qualities give them the potential to be a greener optical probe than other types of quantum dots and organic dyes.Covering several common synthesis strategies, including biomass synthesis, large-scale s...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems, BICS 2018, held in Xi’an, China, in July 2018.The 83 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: neural computation; biologically inspired systems; image recognition: detection, tracking and classification; data analysis and natural language processing; ...

Water Security: Big Data-Driven Risk Identification, Assessment and Control of Emerging Contaminants contains the latest information on big data-driven risk detection and analysis, risk assessment and environmental health effect, intelligent risk control technologies, and global control strategy of emerging contaminants. First, this book highlights advances and challenges throughout the detection of emerging chemical contaminants (e.g., antimicrobials, microplastics) by sensors or mass spe...

This double volume set LNCS 14393-14394 constitutes the proceedings from the workshops held at the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023 Workshops, which took place in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in October 2023.The 54 full papers together with 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 123 submissions from all workshops.The papers of the workshops are presenting the topica...