Intelligent computing and networking are a rapidly growing area that has attracted significant attention due to its potential impact on the quality of service of applications for B5G/6G networks and the future Internet. To enable intelligent computing and networking, it is necessary to integrate technologies from the fields of communications, networking, computing, artificial intelligence, and numerous other fields. The scope of the symposium, International Symposium on Intelligent Computi...

This book demonstrates how a radical version of physicalism (‘No-Self Physicalism’) can offer an internally coherent and comprehensive philosophical worldview. It first argues that a coherent physicalist should explicitly treat a cognitive subject merely as a physical thing and should not vaguely assume an amorphous or even soul-like subject or self. This approach forces the physicalist to re-examine traditional core philosophical notions such as truth, analyticity, modality, apriority bec...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of public hospital reform in China, which is a hot topic for China’s new round of health sector reform. The authors use rich data from both health provider side and service user side and conduct a cross-sectional study in China with some comparative analysis between different locations. It provides the audience with a big picture of China’s public hospital and other components of health system as well. The book reviews the main policy measur...

International Symposium on Intelligent Computing and Networking 2024 (ISICN 2024), March 18-20, 2024; San Juan, Puerto Rico. Intelligent computing and networking is a rapidly growing area that has attracted significant attention due to its potential impact on the quality of service of applications for B5G/6G networks and the future Internet. To enable intelligent computing and networking, it is necessary to integrate technologies from the fields of communications, networking, computing, ar...

This book intends to show that radical naturalism (or physicalism), nominalism and strict finitism account for the applications of classical mathematics in current scientific theories. The applied mathematical theories developed in the book include the basics of calculus, metric space theory, complex analysis, Lebesgue integration, Hilbert spaces, and semi-Riemann geometry (sufficient for the applications in classical quantum mechanics and general relativity). The fact that so much applied...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second China Conference on Networking, CCF ChinaNet 2025, which took place in Shenyang, China, during September 12-14, 2025.The 13 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. They deal with networking technologies such as cloud computing; mobile and network security; computer engineering and networks; etc. The theme of this year's conference was “Integrating Industry, Search, and Innovation...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference, PDCAT 2025, held in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, during November 22–24, 2025.The 47 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 158 submissions. The PDCAT 2025 covers a broad spectrum of topics, including but not limited to parallel and distributed systems, cloud and edge computing, high-performance computing, resource scheduling and optimization, machine learning sy...

Networks of today are going through a rapid evolution and there are many emerging areas of information networking and their applications. Heterogeneous networking supported by recent technological advances in low power wireless communications along with silicon integration of various functionalities such as sensing, communications, intelligence and actuations are emerging as a critically important disruptive computer class based on a new platform, networking structure and interface that en...

Networks of today are going through a rapid evolution and there are many emerging areas of information networking and their applications. Heterogeneous networking supported by recent technological advances in low power wireless communications along with silicon integration of various functionalities such as sensing, communications, intelligence, and actuations are emerging as a critically important disruptive computer class based on a new platform, networking structure and interface that e...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on 6G for Future Wireless Networks, 6GN 2020, held in Tianjin, China, in August 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 45 full papers were selected from 109 submissions and present the state of the art and practical applications of 6G technologies. The papers are arranged thematically on network scheduling and optimization; wireless system and platform; intelligent applications; n...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 5th The Global IoT Summit, GIoTS 2022, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in June 20–23, 2022.The 33 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed andselected from 75 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: ioT enabling technologies; ioT applications, services and real implementations; ioT security, privacy and data protection; and ioT pilots, testbeds a...

This book comprises select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Innovative Computing which was held in Bangkok, Thailand, Jan 19-23, 2025 (IC 2025) focusing on cutting-edge research carried out in the areas of information technology, science, and engineering. Some of the themes covered in this book are cloud communications and networking, high performance computing, architecture for secure and interactive IoT, satellite communication, wearable network and system, infrastructu...