The energy demands of contemporary society mandate the urgent development and commercialisation of a ‘post-Li-ion battery’. Metal anodes are an important piece of this puzzle. This research and reference text discusses the role of metal electrodes in batteries in detail. Introducing the fundamental theoretical properties of metal anodes, the book surveys the history and prospects of the field, covering a wide range of metals, including Li, Na, K, Mg, Al, Zn, Ge, Sn, Sb and Bi. The first bo...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Process-Aware Systems, PAS 2015, held in Hangzhou, China, in October 2015. The four revised full papers and two short papers, presented together with five demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on process modeling and comparison; process data analysis; Cloud workflow applications.