Multi-robot coordinated fencing, where a team of robots forms a protective formation around a target, has garnered significant attention and proven useful in practical applications such as area convoying. However, real-world scenarios often involve complex target characteristics, including varying dynamics and multiple targets, which can pose challenges in maintaining the formation. Additionally, due to sensor costs and environmental constraints, robots may only have access to directional ...

This book covers the fundamental principles, new theories and methodologies, and potential applications of hybrid intelligent networks. Chapters focus on hybrid neural networks and networked multi-agent networks, including their communication, control and optimization synthesis. This text also provides a succinct but useful guideline for designing neural network-based hybrid artificial intelligence for brain-inspired computation systems and applications in the Internet of Things.Ar...

A systematic guide to the theory, applications, and design of thermal management for LED packagingIn Thermal Management for Opto-electronics Packaging and Applications, a team of distinguished engineers and researchers deliver an authoritative discussion of the fundamental theory and practical design required for LED product development. Readers will get a solid grounding in thermal management strategies and find up-to-date coverage of heat transfer fundam...

Presenting new and invaluable Chinese perspectives on international relations in general and Beijing's foreign policy in particular, this work offers the first balanced and thoroughly researched analysis by Chinese scholars. Drawing on original Chinese sources and interviews, In the Eyes of the Dragon explores Chinese views on sovereignty, national interest, security multilateralism, international human rights, nuclear nonproliferation, Taiwan, and the United States. Illuminating ...

One of the most important topics in soil science is understanding the relationship between soil biodiversity and soil ecosystem function. This relies on techniques able to accurately identify different soil organisms and how they interact in the soil microbiome.Measuring and assessing the biological health of soils provides a comprehensive overview of the range of techniques used to assess microbial/faunal diversity and activity in soils and its impact on key ecological pr...

This book summarizes the advanced manufacturing technology of original innovations in hot stamping of lightweight car body. A detailed description of the technical system and basic knowledge of sheet metal forming is given, which helps readers quickly understand the relevant knowledge in the field. Emphasis has been placed on the independently developed hot stamping process and equipment, which help describe the theoretical and experimental research on key problems involving stress field, ...

The global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and food and feed production will need to increase by 70%. Wheat, maize and sorghum are three key cereals which provide nutrition for the majority of the world's population. Their production is affected by various abiotic stresses which cause significant yield losses. The effects of climate change also increase the frequency and severity of such abiotic stresses. Molecular breeding technologies offer real hope for impro...

This three-volume set LNCS 16431-16433 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2025 held in Hong Kong SAR, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 18 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions.These papers focus on various aspects of social computing, applied psychology, behaviour pattern learning, text and sentimentanalysi...

This three-volume set LNCS 16431-16433 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing, BESC 2025 held in Hong Kong SAR, China, during October 16–18, 2025.The 18 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions.These papers focus on various aspects of social computing, applied psychology, behaviour pattern learning, text and sentimentanalysi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017, co-located with the Evo*2017 events EuroGP, EvoMUSART and EvoApplications.The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers cover both empirical and theoretical studies on a wide range of academic and real-world applications. Th...

This book presents select proceedings of the 3rd World Congress on Condition Monitoring (WCCM 2024). It examines condition monitoring methods, including vibration, acoustics, optics, electromagnetism, infrared thermal imaging, guided waves, stress, etc. The topics covered include signal detection and processing, condition monitoring instrumentation and methods, diagnosis, assessment and prediction, and advanced condition monitoring technology. The book also discusses the various applicatio...

The two-volume set CCIS 1959 and 1960 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 38th CCF National Conference on Computer Applications, CCF NCCA 2023, held in Suzhou, China, during July 16–20, 2023.The 39 revised full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 197 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Volume I:Artificial intelligence and application.Volume II:Data...