This book consists of two parts: Part I Methodologies for Video Grounding and Part II Generalized Video Grounding and Trending Directions. To make this book self-contained and cutting edge, Part I will cover basic and advanced methodologies for Video Grounding, discussing key comparisons with several representative Vision-Language learning tasks including multimodal understanding and generation. Part II will cover our insights for Generalized Video Grounding and the development of Video Gr...

This book offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of embodied artificial intelligence (AI) and its integration with swarm manipulation, navigation, and tracking tasks. It uniquely bridges the gap in the existing literature by providing a thorough review of swarm-embodied AI, focusing on collaborative perception and decision-making methods. Its standout features include a systematic approach, detailed discussions on advanced directions, and a practical case study on multi-robot multi...

This book provides a direct method based on system solutions to address the problems related to the analysis and control of delayed neural networks. The method proposed in this book is important for the following reasons: It does not involve the construct of any Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional (LKF), which overcomes the difficulty in constructing an appropriate and effective LKF; It can provide more simpler sufficient conditions, and hence it possesses less computational complexity; It can ...

This book provides a systematic and in-depth introduction to distributed optimal adaptive cooperative control for multiagent systems from a theoretical perspective. The major research topics include: adaptive neural networks-based control schemes under multiconstraints, adaptive optimal control, event-triggered adaptive optimal control and data-based reinforcement learning control. The comprehensive and systematic treatment of adaptive optimal control in multiagent systems is one of the ma...

Angiosperms are the most diversi ed plant group in the world, being represented by ca 300,000 species in about 400 families. Like all of Life, including ourselves, they have had their own history and gone through many evolutionary stages before they arrived at their current forms. The origin of Angiospermae ( owering plants) has been the subject of much dispute because this is a key event in the history of life, and has a far-reaching in uence on our understanding of relationships among se...

This book discusses the controversial and conflicting hypotheses on the origin of angiosperms, which was generally assumed to be restricted to the Cretaceous and later ages. Since publishing the first edition of “The Dawn of Angiosperms” in 2010, several important advances have been made in this field of science, namely 1) the discovery of new fossil angiosperms from the Jurassic; 2) European researchers discovering angiosperm-like pollen from the Triassic; and most importantly 3) the disc...

Higher Education as a Field of Study in China: Defining Knowledge and Curriculum Structure concerns the complexity of higher education as an academic field-the evolving nature of the field in light of the overall development of higher education in China. It reviews how higher education as a field of study has evolved in China since 1978 and how the field has been shaped by political and social forces, as well as institutional culture.Xin Wang argues that higher education is...

This brief proposes that the keys to internet cross-layer optimization are the development of non-standard implicit primal-dual solvers for underlying optimization problems, and design of jointly optimal network protocols as decomposition of such solvers. Relying on this novel design-space oriented approach, the author develops joint TCP congestion control and wireless-link scheduling schemes for wireless applications over Internet with centralized and distributed (multi-hop) wireless link...

Both of her rebirths occurred in the seventies, when technology was still underdeveloped. Lu Xinfei felt that she was born to be unlucky.However, on the second time, Lu Xinfei, who was used to living the life of an unlucky person, came back from the dead end. Although she was reborn into someone else's body, the difference was that this time, she was reborn into a child.Wait a minute, who was that familiar person? Let Lu Xinfei think...

Both of her rebirths occurred in the seventies, when technology was still underdeveloped. Lu Xinfei felt that she was born to be unlucky.However, on the second time, Lu Xinfei, who was used to living the life of an unlucky person, came back from the dead end. Although she was reborn into someone else's body, the difference was that this time, she was reborn into a child.Wait a minute, who was that familiar person? Let Lu Xinfei think...

Using mixed methods research including archival research, case studies, and interviews, this book examines how urban innovation approaches and strategies progress through their inception, initiation, implementation, institutionalisation, integration with infrastructure, and eventual impact. The analysis reveals how technologies, people, and institutions interact across socio-technical systems to achieve economic, environmental, and social sustainability. Challenges, critical success factor...

This five-volume set LNCS 15436 -15440 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2024, held in Doha, Qatar, in December 2024.The 110 full papers and 55 short papers were presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 368 submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections as follows:Part I : Information Retrieval and Text Processing; Text and Sentiment Ana...