This book provides insights into China’s energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies. It explores energy saving ways and argues for an energy consumption revolution, which includes technologies to improve transportation resource efficiency, modification of existing transportation infrastructure and structure.This book uses various analytical models to study the relationships within the transportation system. It also includes comparative analysis of China,...

Reviews the latest advances in understanding tea genetics and genetic diversity and how this has informed advances in conventional, marker-assisted and transgenic breeding techniquesSummarises current best practice in cultivation techniques and the control of pests and diseasesFocuses on assessing the environmental impact of tea cultivation

Providing the first truly comprehensive overview of Network Tomography - a novel network monitoring approach that makes use of inference techniques to reconstruct the internal network state from external vantage points - this rigorous yet accessible treatment of the fundamental theory and algorithms of network tomography covers the most prominent results demonstrated on real-world data, including identifiability conditions, measurement design algorithms, and network state inference algorit...

This book presents, for the first time, data analytics for smart infrastructures. The authors draw on over a decade’s experience working with industry and demonstrating the capabilities of data analytics for infrastructure and asset management.The volume gives data-driven solutions to cover critical capabilities for infrastructure and asset management across three domains: 1) situation awareness 2) predictive analytics and 3) decision support. The reader will gain from various data...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on AI and Multimodal Services – AIMS 2025, held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2025, in Hong Kong, China, during September 27–30, 2025.The 9 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They focus on for the development, publication, discovery, orchestration, invocation, testing, delivery, certification, and management of artificial ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Big Data, BigData 2024, held as part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2024, in Bangkok, Thailand, during November 16-19, 2024.The 8 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. They focus on various topics within the field of Data-based services such as Big Data Architecture, Big Data Modeling, Big Data As A Service, Big D...

Where Are the People?How Could the People’s Bodies Voice Themselves in the Form ofTheatrical Aesthetics?At That Time, the Audience Really Stood Up.In this evening, theater practitioners initiated the conversation with physical action. They engage with contemporary issues through their unique performance styles. From a discursive context, they enter the scene of resistance and undertake the labor of performance. Their performance is not just the preface to a seri...

This new Edition of Electronic Commerce is a complete update of the leading graduate level/advanced undergraduate level textbook on the subject. Electronic commerce (EC) describes the manner in which transactions take place over electronic networks, mostly the Internet. It is the process of electronically buying and selling goods, services, and information. Certain EC applications, such as buying and selling stocks and airline tickets online, are reaching maturity, some even excee...

Throughout the book, theoretical foundations necessary for understanding Electronic Commerce (EC) are presented, ranging from consumer behavior to the economic theory of competition. Furthermore, this book presents the most current topics relating to EC as described by a diversified team of experts in a variety of fields, including a senior vice president of an e-commerce-related company. The authors provide website resources, numerous exercises, and extensive references to supplement the ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2023, held in Shenzhen, China, during December 17–18, 2023.The 9 full papers in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Cognitive Computing Technologies and Infrastructure, Cognitive Computing Applications, Sensing Intelligence, Cognitive Analysis, Mobile Services, Cognitive Computing on Smart ...

This book timely provides high-quality records of 32 PTB sections across different depositional settings from terrestrial to marine facies in South China, including descriptions of lithologies, high-resolution correlation of key boundaries and fossil occurrences at each section. This book also analyzes the patterns and processes of the community and ecosystem evolution over space and through time in the lead to the end-Permian mass extinction, and critically analyzes the mostly debated hyp...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Services, AIMS 2022, held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2022, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in December 2022.The 10 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions.The International Conference on AI & Mobile Services (AIMS 2022) aims at providing an international forum that is dedicated to exploring ...