This book investigates in detail the concepts and principles of green chemistry and related methodologies, including green synthesis, green activation methods, green catalysis, green solvents, and green design to achieve process intensification while at the same time ensuring process safety and promoting ecological civilization and environmental protection. Moreover, it incorporates elements of chemical management and chemical education, highlighting chemists’ responsibility to protect hum...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Financial Technology, ICFT 2024, held in Singapore during September 23–25, 2024.The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. These papers focus on the current research in Blockchain technology, Financial technology and the application of Artificial Intelligence in these areas.

The International Conference on Phytochemistry, Textile, & Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development (ICPTRE 2020) was hosted by the World bank funded Africa Centre of Excellence in Phytochemicals, Textile and Renewable Energy (ACEII-PTRE) based at Moi University in conjunction with Donghua University, China and the Sino–Africa International Symposium on Textiles and Apparel (SAISTA). The theme of the conference was Advancing Science, Technology and Innovation for Industria...

This open access book presents how cutting-edge digital technologies like Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Blockchain are set to disrupt the financial sector. The book illustrates how recent advances in these technologies facilitate banks, FinTech, and financial institutions to collect, process, analyze, and fully leverage the very large amounts of data that are nowadays produced and exchanged in the sector. To this end, the book also describes some more the mo...

Build production-grade Large Language Model systems for finance. Learn how to design, fine-tune, evaluate, govern, and deploy LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and AI agents for trading, banking, risk management, compliance, and financial research using rigorous mathematics, practical code, and real-world case studies.Key FeaturesBuild production-ready financial LLM systems with RAG, fine-tuning, AI agents, and MCPApply LLMs to trading, invest...

Chemical processes provide a diverse array of valuable products and materials used in applications ranging from health care to transportation and food processing. Yet these same chemical processes that provide products and materials essential to modern economies, also generate substantial quantities of wastes and emissions. Green Chemistry is the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminate the use or generation of hazardous substances in design. Due to extravagant costs ne...

The Global Financial Crisis and the Eurozone crisis that has followed have drawn attention to weaknesses in financial records, information and data. These weaknesses have led to operational risks in financial institutions, flawed bankruptcy and foreclosure proceedings following the Crisis, and inadequacies in financial supervisors’ access to records and information for the purposes of a prudential response. Research is needed to identify the practices that will provide the records, informa...

This is an open access book.With the continuous upgrading of network information technology, especially the combination of information technology such as Internet - cloud computing - blockchain - Internet of Things and in social and economic activities, through artificial intelligence, Internet and big data with high quality and fast processing efficiency improvement, economic form from industrial economy to information economy. This will greatly reduce social transaction costs, im...

This is an open access book.E-commerce is a commercial activity centered on commodity exchange by means of information network technology. In the open network environment of the Internet, based on the client/server application method, buyers and sellers carry out various commercial activities online, realizing online shopping for consumers, online transactions between merchants and online electronic payment, as well as various business activities, trading activities, financial acti...

This book delves into the intersection of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the financial Technology (FinTech) industry. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of how Generative AI, a cutting-edge subset of artificial intelligence, is fundamentally altering the landscape of finance. It meticulously unravels the intricate ways in which advanced algorithms, powered by generative AI, are transforming traditional financial processes, decision-making, risk assessment, portfoli...

Biofuels and Biorefining: Volume Two: Intensified Processes and Biorefineries considers intensification and optimization processes for biofuels and biomass-derived products in single and biorefinery schemes. Chapters cover production processes for liquid biofuels, introducing all feasible intensification alternatives for each process, process intensification methods for the production of value-added products, the importance of detailed CFD-based studies, controllability studies, strategies...

This book is the first part of Applications and Trends in Fintech, which serves as a comprehensive guide to the advanced topics in fintech, including the deep learning and natural language processing algorithms, blockchain design thinking, token economics, cybersecurity, cloud computing and quantum computing, compliance and risk management, and global fintech trends. Readers will gain knowledge about the applications of fintech in finance and its latest developments as well as trends....