The Westphalian model of international relations has given us a zero-sum game of winners and losers that has proven to be ineffective in addressing the pressing issues of our times. Philosopher Zhao Tingyang has argued that by conceptualizing international relations from the planetary perspective of tianxia, we can develop a sense of “worldness” that at once acknowledges the plurality of moral ideals defining of the world’s cultures and seeks practical ways to formulate a shared m...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions.They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph; ...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions. They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph;...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions. They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph;...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions.They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph; ...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions.They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph; ...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions. They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph;...

Based on the historical record of Bessie’s ‘confession’ to witchcraft in sixteenth-century Scotland, the episodic structure of the play shows the many characters and events that supposedly made up the catalogue of her crimes, but which in fact testify to her innocence and goodness. Bessie Dunlop, the Witch o Dalry introduces students to different levels and varieties of Scots and English and contains teaching notes, suggestions for classroom activities, and questions for discussion or writ...

This two-volume set, LNAI 10234 and 10235, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2017, held in Jeju, South Korea, in May 2017.The 129 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 458 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: classification and deep learning; social network and graph mining; privacy-preserving mining and security/risk applications; spatio...

This two-volume set, LNAI 10234 and 10235, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 21st Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2017, held in Jeju, South Korea, in May 2017.The 129 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 458 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: classification and deep learning; social network and graph mining; privacy-preserving mining and security/risk applications; spatio...