Opening a new window into Chinese intellectual discourse, this unique book is a critical engagement with the issues, problems, and meanings of contemporary Chinese intellectual thought. As key participants in these debates who have exercised a significant influence on the development of contemporary Chinese thought, the volume's contributors explore concerns over the role of the intellectual and the outcomes of knowledge production in the humanities. Masterfully translated, these essays pr...

This book analyzes the governance of illegal immigrants in ethnic areas along China’s southwest border. Since China is not an immigrant country and lacks an immigrant culture, the goals of law enforcement departments are limited to sanfeirenyuan (three types of illegal persons: illegal immigrants, illegal residents, and illegal employees). The transformation of sanfeirenyuan, an issue that has plagued China for many years, into an “illegal immigration” governance issue that is of general c...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from two VLDB workshops: The International Workshop on Polystore Systems for Heterogeneous Data in Multiple Databases with Privacy and Security Assurances, Poly 2022, and the 8th International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2022, which were held virtually on September 9, 2022.The proceedings include 3 full papers each from Poly 2022 and from DMAH 2022.DMAH deals with innovative data m...

Bioenergy Recovery from Biomass Waste provides a new paradigm to gain insight into the technical management of biomass waste conversion into clean energy and products such as heat, electricity, gaseous and liquid biofuels, chemicals, and fertilizers. The book discusses chemical and biological treatment methods for sludge, food wastes, algae, lignocellulosic waste and livestock manure, providing a comprehensive understanding of biomass resource treatment. Detailed chapters consider the rele...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of International Workshops: Polystores and other Systems for Heterogeneous Data, Poly 2018, and Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2018, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2018, held in conjunction with the 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2018.The 11 regular papers presented together with 2 invited papers and 1 abstract of a keynote talk were carefully reviewed...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings for the VLBD conference workshops entitled: Towards Polystores That Manage Multiple Databases, Privacy, Security and/or Policy Issues for Heterogenous Data (Poly 2019) and the Fifth International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2019), held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2019, in conjunction with the 45th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2019.The 20 r...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2016, in New Delhi, India, in September 2016, held in conjunction with the 42nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2016.The 7 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers and 3 keynote abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 11 initial submissions. The papers ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the two International Workshops on Big-Graphs Online Querying, Big-O(Q) 2015, and Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2015, held at Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA on August 31 and September 4, 2015, in conjunction with the 41st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2015.The 9 revised full papers presented together with 5 invited papers and 1 extended abstract were carefully reviewed and selected f...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from two VLDB workshops: The International Workshop on Polystore Systems for Heterogeneous Data in Multiple Databases with Privacy and Security Assurances, Poly 2021, and the 7th International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2021, which were held virtually on August 2021.For Poly 2021, 7 full and 2 short papers were accepted from 10 submissions; and for DMAH 2021, 4 full papers together with 2...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2017, in Munich, Germany, in September 2017, held in conjunction with the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2017.The 9 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical se...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from two VLDB workshops: The International Workshop on Polystore Systems for Heterogeneous Data in Multiple Databases with Privacy and Security Assurances, Poly 2020, and the 6th International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare, DMAH 2020, which were held virtually on August 31 and September 4, 2020.For Poly 2020, 4 full and 3 short papers were accepted from 10 submissions; and for DMAH 2020, 7 full an...