Regional and area planning

Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and Development Board (2010-2020) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 5th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore.

This invaluable compendium highlights the challenges of perioperative process in hospitals today.

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of service robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of human-centric robotics.

Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies.

The Divided City contributes to the growing body of scholarly work on cities of the global South.

The 2016 International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation Engineering (ICMAE2016) have been successfully held in Xiamen, China, on April 22nd - 24th.

The 3rd Annual International Conference on Design, Manufacturing and Mechatronics (ICDMM2016) was successfully held in Wuhan, China in 2016.

Earth's environmental problems are far from being resolved.

This comprehensive reference text is a collection of important research findings on the latest developments in network modeling for optimization of smart cities.

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of cooperative robotics.

Urban Ethics under Conditions of Crisis investigates the states of urban planning, architectural design, sustainability, landscape architecture, and engineering, and examines their correlation with social attitudes and dispositions that can impact on socio-cultural and political engagement internationally in conditions of crisis.

The rate of urbanisation will accelerate in the years ahead.

This book aims to describe how parallel computer architectures can be used to enhance the performance of robots, and their great impact on future generations of robots.

Classical optimization methodologies fall short in very large and complex domains.

This book is intended to be an introductory text for mathematics and computer science students at the second and third year levels in universities.

Tomorrow's robots, which includes the humanoid robot, can perform task like tutoring children, working as tour guides, driving humans to and from work, do the family shopping etc.

The book reviews and reports the recent progress and knowledge on the specific impact of current and projected urban overheating as well as of the urban mitigation technologies on mortality and morbidity and urban vulnerability.

Ocean covers 70.

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, consisting of 8 chapters, describes the state-of-the-art technological progress and applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in precision agriculture.

This book opens up a critical dimension of energy transition taking in account multidimensional challenges on economic, social and environmental fields.

This book is dedicated for engineers and researchers who would like to increase the knowledge in area of mobile mapping systems.

This book is as an extension of previous book "e;Computer Vision and Machine Learning in Agriculture"e; for academicians, researchers, and professionals interested in solving the problems of agricultural plants and products for boosting production by rendering the advanced machine learning including deep learning tools and techniques to computer vision algorithms.

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 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 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.

This book presents perspective on the importance of natural and cultural relationships for conserving bio-cultural landscapes.

This edited book discusses Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) from conception to implementation in building resilience and urban sustainability.

This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of ecological wisdom (EW).

This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan.

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) technology, which is a fundamental and essential component for many applications in robotics, wearable devices, and autonomous driving vehicles.

Ocean covers 70.

This book provides an introduction to the critical role of ecosystem-based disaster risk resilience (Eco-DRR) for building community resilience to multiple environmental risks such as rising heat, water stress, and pollution.

This book begins with a brief background on greenhouse gases sources and sinks and continues with a discussion in different sectors including forest fluxes to human health and modeling techniques to policy measures.

This book aims to explore and discuss theories and technologies for the development of socially competent and culture-aware embodied conversational agents for elderly care.

This journal-like book series includes edited volumes to rapidly report and spread the latest technological results, new scientific discovery and valuable applied researches in the fields concerning offshore robotics as well as promote international academic exchange.

This book presents the breakthrough and cutting-edge progress for collaborative perception and mapping by proposing a novel framework of multimodal perception-relative localization-collaborative mapping for collaborative robot systems.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.

This book provides a comprehensive review of industry 4.

This book presents selected papers from The 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019).

This book is intended to meet the needs of those who seek to develop control systems for ROVs when there is no model available during the initial design stage.

This book presents few novel Discrete-time Sliding Mode (DSM) protocols for leader-following consensus of Discrete Multi-Agent Systems (DMASs).

This book promotes a meaningful and appropriate dialogue and cross-disciplinary partnerships on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in governance and disaster management.

Over the next few decades, millions of people, with varying backgrounds and levels of technical expertise, will have to effectively interact with robotic technologies on a daily basis.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts.

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is the combination of reinforcement learning (RL) and deep learning.

Our country's cultural legacy is one of the world's most diverse, drawing millions of visitors every year to our convents and monuments, and to our museums, libraries, concert halls and festivals.

This book features selected papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Computing Technologies and Applications, held at SVKM's Dwarkadas J.

In this book, we present our systematic investigations into consensus in multi-agent systems.