This book explores the hydrogen integration in energy systems from a whole system optimisation perspective. The book introduces new modelling, optimisation, and reliability evaluation approaches that support the net zero transition.Global warming has been witnessed in the past few decades—as caused by the emission of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, it not only affects the habitat of animals but also threatens the lives of mankind in modern societies. Around the world, res...

Machine learning has become a cornerstone of modern data-driven science and technology. For mathematics students and researchers, understanding the mathematical foundations behind machine learning is essential, even if they never work directly with real-world datasets.This book provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to the core mathematical ideas that underpin machine learning. Topics such as linear and nonlinear regression, regularization techniques, and the fundamentals ...

Chinese Explored Asia Long Before the Europeans: An Ancient World Map Tells All is the fruit of the author's research into the history of exploration prior to the European Age of Discovery. This book analyses thoroughly the Asian regions of an important ancient world map: Kunyu Wanguo Quantu (KWQ) (坤舆万国全图), translated as 'Complete Geographical Map of All the Kingdoms of the World'. The map was published in 1602 by Italian Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci in China. For over 400 years, the map has...

This volume brings together 30 chapters across five parts, offering a structured, in-depth survey of asymptotic analysis and its applications. Readers will find rigorous treatments of orthogonal polynomials, boundary layer problems, saddle-point integrals, turning point theory, Airy and Bessel expansions, special functions, and modern approaches to difference equations, differential equations, Riemann–Hilbert problems, integrals, and singular perturbation problems. Each chapter blends clas...

This short textbook covers roughly 13 weeks of lectures on advanced statistical mechanics at the graduate level. It starts with an elementary introduction to the theory of ensembles from classical mechanics, and then goes on to quantum statistical mechanics with density matrix. These topics are covered concisely and briefly. The advanced topics cover the mean-field theory for phase transitions, the Ising models and their exact solutions, and critical phenomena and their scaling theory. The...

Kinetic Studies in GeO2/Ge System: A Retrospective from 2021 investigates reaction kinetics in GeO2/Ge systems, aiming to demonstrate the fundamentals of the GeO2/Ge interface and to give insight into the distinctive features and performance of Ge (germanium) applied to advanced complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices.This book first reviews the development of MOS technology and discusses the potentials of emerging Ge and the challenges facing it as ...

The 3-volume set, LNAI 16074-16076, constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2025, which took place in Okayama, Japan, during August 6-9, 2025.The 165 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 329 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part 1: Robotic Dexterous Manipulation and Intelligent Control; Intelligent Perception and Contr...

The two-volume set, LNCS 15913 and 15914, constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2025, held in Oslo, Norway, during August 5–7, 2025.The 82 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 214 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Artificial Intelligence in Education; Computational Thinking in Education; Design a...

This book highlights the fundamentals for understanding the essential problems and latest progresses in basic water science. Water is the most abundant, fundamental and important matter in nature. Arguably it is also the material that human beings study the most but misunderstand the most. Compared with the environmental science and engineering research activities on water resources, water pollution and water usage closely related to social problems at the macro level, basic scientific res...

This book examines transatlantic politics through an analysis of 60 years of US-European strategic interaction in space.The significance of space politics for the study of transatlantic relations receives surprisingly little scholarly attention. As a theatre of interaction, transatlantic space politics reflects the vicissitudes of European and US power in the international system. An understanding of space politics is therefore vital in understanding the status and prospect of the ...

Taiwan’s modern legal system--quite different from those of both traditional China and the People’s Republic--has evolved since the advent of Japanese rule in 1895. Japan has gradually adopted Western law during the 19th-century and when it occupied Taiwan--a frontier society composed of Han Chinese settlers--its codes were instituted for the purpose of rapidly assimilating the Taiwanese people into Japanese society.Tay-sheng Wang’s comprehensive study lays a solid foundation for f...

The 3-volume set, LNAI 16074-16076, constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2025, which took place in Okayama, Japan, during August 6-9, 2025.The 165 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 329 submissions.They were organized in topical sections as follows:Part 1: Robotic Dexterous Manipulation and Intelligent Control; Intelligent Perception and Contr...