Since the end of the World War II, nation states have formed regions to give them some protection from the processes of globalization and internationalization. Against this background, the contributors consider the position of China in the processes of regional competitive interdependency. This book offers analysis at three levels: internal, regional, and global. Chapters consider China’s position in regional post-socialist associations such as the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organizat...

Graph processing involves the manipulation, analysis, and traversal of graph data structures. Graphs consist of vertices/nodes connected by edges/links, representing relationships between entities. Graph processing is crucial in various domains like social networks, recommendation systems, bioinformatics, and more.Graph processing, especially the processing of large-scale graphs with the number of vertices and edges in the order of billions or even hundreds of billions, has attract...