In den letzten Jahren sind immer mehr Private an der Erbringung der öffentlichen Dienstleistungen beteiligt. Allerdings ergibt sich in der Praxis daraus, dass die Daseinsvorsorge nicht blind auf einen reinen Wettbewerb vertrauen kann. Der öffentliche Personennahverkehr kann als ein gutes Beispiel dienen. Es stellt sich die Frage, wie die Erbringung der öffentlichen Dienstleistungen so organisiert werden kann, dass einerseits ein fairer Wettbewerb zwischen Unternehmen entstehen kann, andere...

This book explores integrating behavior prediction with artificial intelligence-driven resource management to provide a transformative framework for optimizing vehicular social networks (VSNs). The book starts by providing an overview of the key issues encountered in VSNs, including the dynamic and unpredictable nature of vehicular mobility, varying communication demands, and the need for efficient resource allocation. A significant portion of the book is dedicated to exploring behavior pr...

This book investigates technologies that enable more powerful resources and improve resource utilization for end-edge-cloud networks. The authors cover tools such as federated learning (FL) and real-time inference in industrial IoT and they present a novel communication and computation integration architecture for end-edge-cloud networks. Under the considered end-edge-cloud network architecture, the authors then propose different resource scheduling schemes based on centralized and distrib...

Given the rise of AI and the advent of online collaboration opportunities (e.g., social media, crowdsourcing), emerging research has started to investigate the integration of AI and human intelligence, especially in a collaborative social context. This creates unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the field of Social Intelligence (SI), where the goal is to explore the collective intelligence of both humans and machines by understanding their complementary strengths and interactions...

This book is focused on the attractive emerging field of micro-/nanorobot swarms (microswarms). It introduces fundamental understandings of various microswarms, including pattern generation, transformation, locomotion, and imaging. This book also demonstrates applications of micro-/nanorobot swarms in different fields, such as biomedical, environmental, and electrical applications. The detailed theoretical analysis and experimental demonstrations in this book provide readers ranging from s...

China in the Era of Social Media discusses how social media is changing the world in an unprecedented way through speed, scope, and depth. In the last decade or so, social media in China has witnessed the most explosive growth in the world. Being the most populous nation in the world, it has the most social media users in the world as well. This book examines the current situation and unique characteristics of Chinese social media, the significance of social media in the country’s...

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of efficiency and performance engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the TEPEN International Workshop on Fault Diagnostics and Prognostics (TEPEN-IWFDP), held in Qingdao, China, on May 8–11, 2024. Topics include machine and structural health monitoring, non-destructive testing and fault detection, diagnostic and prognostic for both operational and manufacturing process...

Power systems are evolving towards the Smart Grid paradigm, featured by large-scale integration of renewable energy resources, e.g. wind and solar power, deeper participation of demand side, and enhanced interaction with electric vehicles. While these emerging elements are inherently stochastic in nature, they are creating a challenge to the system’s stability and its control. In this context, conventional analysis tools are becoming less effective, and necessitate the use alternative tool...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2020, held in Foshan, China in November 2020.The 35 full papers presented together with 14 short papers papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: Machine Learning; Text Mining; Graph Mining; Predictive Analytics; Recommender Systems; Privacy and Security; Query Processing; Data Mining Ap...

Cloud computing is the latest market-oriented computing paradigm which brings software design and development into a new era characterized by “XaaS”, i.e. everything as a service. Cloud workflows, as typical software applications in the cloud, are composed of a set of partially ordered cloud software services to achieve specific goals. However, due to the low QoS (quality of service) nature of the cloud environment, the design of workflow systems in the cloud becomes a challenging issue fo...

The 2024 IAIN World Congress, held from October 28th – 30th, at the Beijing International Convention Center, brought together over 350 participants and 31 delegates from all over the world to discuss cutting-edge advancements in navigation and maritime technology.Organized by the International Association of Institutes of Navigation (IAIN) and hosted by the China Institute of Navigation (CIN), the Congress delved into the latest technological trends, research, and industry developm...