Solar energy will undoubtedly become a main source of energy in our life by the end of this century, but how big of a role will photovoltaics play in this new energy infrastructure? Besides cost and efficiency, there are other barriers for current solar cell technologies to become a noticeable source of energy in the future. Availability of raw materials, energy input, storage of solar electricity, and recycling of dead modules can all prevent or hinder a tangible impact by solar photovolt...

The nonlinear optical spectrum signal technology is a new type of optical characterization technology owing to its non-invasiveness and good biocompatibility. This book highlights a comprehensive introduction to the Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS), Two-photon Excited Fluorescence (TPEF) and Second Harmonic Generation signals (SHG) technologies. The four types of nonlinear optical signals technologies, especially two-dimensional and three-dimensional...

This book details the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) applied to the built environment problems. It provides the fundamental theoretical knowledge and specific implementation methods of LBM from the engineering perspective of the built environment. It covers comprehensive issues of built environment with three detailed cases, solving practical problems. It can be used as a reference book for teachers, students, and engineering technicians to study LBM and conduct architecture and urban wind...

Nanophotonics and spectroscopy has advanced rapidly in recent years. Experimental research on nanophotonics is very active. In addition to experimental research on the principles and applications of nanophotonics, computational simulation research on its various physical mechanisms and phenomena is equally important. The simulation of the optical properties of molecules or crystals, such as electronic spectra (absorption and emission spectra, etc.) and vibrational spectroscopy has extraord...

This monograph provides a comprehensive exploration of new tools for modelling, analysis, and control of networked dynamical systems. Expanding on the authors’ previous work, this volume highlights how local exchange of information and cooperation among neighboring agents can lead to emergent global behaviors in a given networked dynamical system.Divided into four sections, the first part of the book begins with some preliminaries and the general networked dynamical model that is u...

This book provides insight into the coordinated optimization of local energy market (LEM) with low-carbon digital operation of the distribution system from a demand-side perspective. There are four sections to characterize the ongoing development and future trends of LEM, including trading behaviors of prosumers, market design considering the impacts of uncertainties, LEM constrained by the distribution network, green LEM considering carbon emission and cutting-edge technologies. This book...

Digital Twin Driven Smart Manufacturing examines the background, latest research, and application models for digital twin technology, and shows how it can be central to a smart manufacturing process.The interest in digital twin in manufacturing is driven by a need for excellent product reliability, and an overall trend towards intelligent, and connected manufacturing systems. This book provides an ideal entry point to this subject for readers in industry and academia, as it answers the que...

This book constitutes the post proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Security on Software and Systems, ASSS 2025, in Guilin, China, held during December 3-5, 2025.The 10 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions.This conference aims to provide a platform for professionals from academia and industry to share advanced techniques, experiences and lessons learned for securing software and systems.

This two-volume set, CCIS 2374 and CCIS 2375, constitutes the revised selected papers from the 37th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2024, held in Wuhan, China, during June 5-7, 2024.The 60 papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 submissions. These papers focus on various aspects of Computer Animation and Social Agents, such as Motion Capture & Retargeting, Physics-based Animation, Vision-based Techni...

This two-volume set, CCIS 2374 and CCIS 2375, constitutes the revised selected papers from the 37th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2024, held in Wuhan, China, during June 5-7, 2024.The 60 papers presented in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 208 submissions. These papers focus on various aspects of Computer Animation and Social Agents, such as Motion Capture & Retargeting, Physics-based Animation, Vision-based Techni...

This book provides a systematic and detailed introduction to the formation process and current development of China's socialist legal system. The classification of the constitution and constitution-related laws, criminal law, civil and commercial law, administrative law, economic law, litigation and non-litigation procedural law, social law, and the specifics of each sector of law are explained, which is a good guide for understanding the framework of China's legal system and the study of ...

This book consists of papers on the recent progresses in the state of the art in natural computation, fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery. The book is useful for researchers, including professors, graduate students, as well as R & D staff in the industry, with a general interest in natural computation, fuzzy systems and knowledge discovery. The work printed in this book was presented at the 2020 16th International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (...