This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Intelligent Systems, PKAW 2025, held in Wellington, New Zealand, during November 17–18, 2025.The 11 full papers and 3 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. These papers focus on advanced research in machine learning, natural language processing, and intelligent systems.

Vibration of Hydraulic Machinery deals with the vibration problem which has significant influence on the safety and reliable operation of hydraulic machinery. It provides new achievements and the latest developments in these areas, even in the basic areas of this subject.The present book covers the fundamentals of mechanical vibration and rotordynamics as well as their main numerical models and analysis methods for the vibration prediction. The mechanical and hydraulic excitations t...

Referencing more than 40 ancient works as well as 70 books and papers of contemporary scholars, this book opens up the civilization, society, culture and communication of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang period represented unprecedented prosperity in the ancient world. Combining the socio-cultural background of ancient China and academic achievements of modern times, this book presents an intensive and in-depth exploration of the communicative organisations, methods and ideas of that period. The...

The 7-volume set LNCS 14487-14493 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2023, which took place in Tianjin, China, during October 2023.The 145 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 439 submissions. ICA3PP covers many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures; encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches; practical experimental projects...

Urbanization has dominated China's development landscape in recent decades, yet the human costs of this economic achievement are largely ignored in commentaries on the subject.Urbanization and Public Health in China seeks to redress this imbalance by bringing together academics and researchers from across China and Australia to offer fresh perspectives on public health issues resulting from urbanization. The analyses focus on issues of unequal access to health services by the most vulnerab...

The six-volume set LNCS 14447 until 14452 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023.The 652 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 1274 submissions. They focus on theory and algorithms, cognitive neurosciences; human centred computing; applications in neuroscience, neural networks, deep learning, and related fields.

This book focuses on seismogenic and tectonic environments, seismogenic structures, seismogenic fault structures, earthquake physics, rupture dynamic process, source mechanism, earthquake seismic anomalies and risk assessment, exploration of prediction methods, earthquake disaster characteristics and disaster-causing mechanisms, ground motion prediction, as well as state-of-the-art techniques.

This book provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the complex interactions between the Earth's systems, with particular emphasis on sustainability, hazard management, and resource conservation. This book brings together cutting-edge research and diverse perspectives from the global community of scientists, researchers, and practitioners in the field of earth and environmental sciences. Drawing from presentations and contributions at the 3rd International Conference on Ear...

This book provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the complex interactions between the Earth's systems, with particular emphasis on sustainability, hazard management, and resource conservation. This book brings together cutting-edge research and diverse perspectives from the global community of scientists, researchers, and practitioners in the field of earth and environmental sciences. Drawing from presentations and contributions at the 3rd International Conference on Ear...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies, SmartGift 2024a, which was a virtual event, held during March 23–24, 2024.The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: wireless communication and distribution network; artificial intelligence technologies; security in wireless communication; syste...

This CCIS 2733 project constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th CCF Quantum Computation Conference, CQCC 2025, Chengdu, China, during July 21–23, 2025.The 11 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Quantum Computing, Quantum Machine Learning, Quantum Simulation, Quantum Walks, Variational Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Circuit O...

This book collects selected papers from the International Conference on Energy Engineering 2025. It is dedicated to the forefront of energy innovation and explores groundbreaking research across seven key tracks, including Renewable Energy, Clean Energy Technologies, Intelligent and Electrical Energy Systems, Energy Efficiency, Energy Storage, Energy Policy and Sustainability, and Mitigation Technologies. It also discovers cutting-edge solutions and strategies to propel sustainable energy ...