This book traces the transformation of Shunde, a city in China's Guangdong Province, from a historically agricultural county to a bustling manufacturing hub cum liveable city, in the past 41 years since the reform and opening-up of China in 1978.
This book is a good reference book for city planners, architects and civil engineers involved in the conceptualisation, design and building of urban habitations, who aspire to increase the liveability of their cities.
Algorithms are now widely employed to make decisions that have increasingly far-reaching impacts on individuals and society as a whole ("e;algorithmic governance"e;), which could potentially lead to manipulation, biases, censorship, social discrimination, violations of privacy, property rights, and more.
Telexistence is a fundamental concept which refers to the general technology that enables a human being to have the real-time sensation of being at a place other than where he or she actually exists, while being able to interact with the remote environment, which may be real, virtual, or a combination of both.
The book, written for a general educated public, compares the most important elements of the human nervous system to the corresponding capacities of robots.
Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities.
Theory of mechanisms is an applied science of mechanics that studies the relationship between geometry, mobility, topology, and relative motion between rigid bodies connected by geometric forms.
This book contains a selection of papers accepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT 2022-Fifth Iberian Robotics Conference, held in Zaragoza, Spain, on November 23-25, 2022.
This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.
This volume contains the papers of the 7th International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB) which was held in Basel, Switzerland, on June 7-9, 2021.
This book aims to provide a framework for the concept of land take, the practice by which natural lands are lost to artificial land development practices, and present its ecological implications in urban environments.
This book introduces a novel model-based dexterous manipulation framework, which, thanks to its precision and versatility, significantly advances the capabilities of robotic hands compared to the previous state of the art.
This book informs and educates readers about sustainable development management, approaches and applications in manufacturing processes and presents the trends to the next economic and social paradigm: the Industry 5.
In this book, researchers at the forefront of the field explain the minimum necessary background knowledge and introduce important topics in molecular robotics in an easy-to-understand manner.
This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of exclusionary zoningIn this book, Robert Ellickson asserts that local zoning policies are the most consequential regulatory program in the United States.
The proceedings provide state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and assistive technologies.
Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control presents detailed robotics concepts at a theoretical-practical level, concentrating on their practical use.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2022, which was held Troy, NY, USA in December 2022.
This book highlights the recent research works on sustainable construction, people behavior and built environment which were presented virtually during the 2021 AUA and ICSGS Academic Conference, Global Strategies for a Resilient and Sustainable Post Pandemic World Towards a Better Future for All which was conducted on 26-27 October 2021.
Biomimetic Robotic Artificial Muscles presents a comprehensive up-to-date overview of several types of electroactive materials with a view of using them as biomimetic artificial muscles.
The book (proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (ICDLAIR) 2022) introduces key topics from artificial intelligence algorithms and programming organisations and explains how they contribute to health care, manufacturing, law, finance, retail, real estate, accountancy, digital marketing, and various other fields.
This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Second Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2021), organized by Soft Computing Research Society and CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, India, during September 4 - 5, 2021.
This book discusses the two fundamental elements that underline the science and design of artificial intelligence (AI) systems: the learning and acquisition of knowledge from observational data, and the reasoning of that knowledge together with whatever information is available about the application at hand.
This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geographic information systems and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG), held in Roorkee, India on April 2-4, 2021.
Smart Urban Mobility: Transport Planning in the Age of Big Data and Digital Twins explores the data-driven paradigm shift in urban mobility planning and examines how well-established practices and strong data analytics efforts can be better aligned to fit transport planning practices and "e;smart"e; mobility management needs.
Esta obra recorre y analiza la urbanización de Bariloche –con sus particularidades como destino turístico–, entre las políticas urbanas desplegadas por el Estado y los procesos de producción del hábitat de diferentes actores sociales.
This book provides compelling new insights into how cities are attempting to address sustainability challenges via major applications of geospatial technology in an urban area.
This book includes the proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in IoT and Computing Technologies (ICEICT-2022) held at Goel Institute of Technology & Management, Lucknow, India.
