This book is a comprehensive guide to methodologies for analyzing reliability and optimizing maintenance in complex systems, spanning from initial design to operational stages.
The nine-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023.
The nine-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023.
The nine-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2023, held in Changsha, China, in November 2023.
This book covers multiple dimensions of future mobility systems in smart cities, mapping out the innovations that are needed, presenting ideas on how to address the challenges they present and exploring a holistic research path for future developments.
This two-volume set charts a cross-disciplinary discursive terrain that proffers rich insights about deceit in contemporary postcolonial Sub-Saharan African politics.
The four-volume proceedings set LNCS 14601-14604 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2024, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, April 15-17, 2024.
This book aims to introduce in everyday language the profound culture and unique legacy of the ancient healing art with mesmerizing stories, allusions and anecdotes in the history of its evolution, handpicked from three perspectives, including contributions of master TCM practitioners, the nourishment of TCM by traditional Chinese culture, and the exchanges between TCM and its western counterparts.
"e;Following in the footsteps of Stephen Hawking's 'A brief history of time' and Simon Singh's 'Fermat's Last Theorem' this exceptionally accessible book will you leave marveling at the wonders of the world and, if you didn't listen to your science teachers, wishing you had.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2023, which took place in October 2023 in Athens, Greece.
In today's evolving democratic landscape, "e;The Perils of Populism: The End of the American Century"e; offers an extensive investigation into the phenomenon of populism and its potential threats to U.
In today's evolving democratic landscape, "e;The Perils of Populism: The End of the American Century"e; offers an extensive investigation into the phenomenon of populism and its potential threats to U.
This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of digital sovereignty in China, which are addressed mainly from political, legal and historical point of views.
This thesis addresses deep questions that cut to the physical and informational essence of central chemical quantities such as transition paths and reaction mechanisms and proposes fundamental new connections between transition-path theory, linear-response theory, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and information theory.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2023, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, during October 30-November 3, 2023.
This book aims to introduce in everyday language the profound culture and unique legacy of the ancient healing art with mesmerizing stories, allusions and anecdotes in the history of its evolution, handpicked from three perspectives, including contributions of master TCM practitioners, the nourishment of TCM by traditional Chinese culture, and the exchanges between TCM and its western counterparts.
This edited volume focuses on the (un)equal access to the public space granted to the various groups that make up hybrid and multicultural societies: i.
Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children's Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are 'good' or 'bad' for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a set of social roles and rules in contemporary Western contexts.
This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the satellite events held at the 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2023, held in Hersonissos, Greece, during May 28-June 1, 2023.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2023, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, during October 30-November 3, 2023.
This volume LNCS 14217 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, ProvSec 2023, held in Wuhan, China, during October 2023.
This volume LNCS 14252 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 25th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2023, held in Tianjin, China, during November 18-20, 2023.
"e;Following in the footsteps of Stephen Hawking's 'A brief history of time' and Simon Singh's 'Fermat's Last Theorem' this exceptionally accessible book will you leave marveling at the wonders of the world and, if you didn't listen to your science teachers, wishing you had.
Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 41st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2023, the first volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Progress in Cryptology, LATINCRYPT 2023, held in Quito, Ecuador, in October 2023.
This book examines the ways in which North American Indigenous identity has been (re)imagined, represented, and negotiated in German, Croatian, Italian, Polish, and Czech culture.
This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 2023 iteration of the International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2023), organized by the VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
This book provides an introduction to the basic ideas involved in cybersecurity, whose principal aim is protection of IT systems against unwanted behaviour mediated by the networks which connect them.
Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children's Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are 'good' or 'bad' for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a set of social roles and rules in contemporary Western contexts.
Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 41st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2023, the first volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Conference on Creativity in Intellectual Technologies and Data Science, CIT&DS 2023, held in Volgograd, Russia, in September 2023.
This book includes peer-reviewed high-quality articles presented at the 6th International Conference on Communications and Cyber-Physical Engineering (ICCCE 2023), held on April 28 and 29, 2023, at CMR Engineering College, Hyderabad, India.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Conference on Creativity in Intellectual Technologies and Data Science, CIT&DS 2023, held in Volgograd, Russia, in September 2023.
This thesis addresses deep questions that cut to the physical and informational essence of central chemical quantities such as transition paths and reaction mechanisms and proposes fundamental new connections between transition-path theory, linear-response theory, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and information theory.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2023, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, during October 30-November 3, 2023.
The 9 volume set LNCS 15484-15492 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2024, which took place in Kolkata, India, during December 9-13, 2024.
This volume LNCS 14217 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, ProvSec 2023, held in Wuhan, China, during October 2023.