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Forest Bathing

How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness

by Dr. Qing Li ...

The definitive--and by far the most popular--guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happinessNotice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we suffer from nature deficit disorder, but studies have shown that spending mindful, intentional time around trees- ... Read more

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The definitive--and by far the most popular--guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happinessNotice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we suffer from nature deficit disorder, but studies have shown that spending mindful, intentional time around trees-
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Multimodal Knowledge Systems

Construction and Reasoning

by Changmeng Zheng, Qing Li ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book focuses on advancing the integration of multimodal data (text, images, and structured knowledge) to enable precise knowledge extraction and human-like reasoning. The book’s primary objective is to address critical challenges such as modality gaps, semantic misalignment, dataset biases, and static reasoning paradigms. By introducing novel frameworks that unify graph-based learning, ... Read more

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This book focuses on advancing the integration of multimodal data (text, images, and structured knowledge) to enable precise knowledge extraction and human-like reasoning. The book’s primary objective is to address critical challenges such as modality gaps, semantic misalignment, dataset biases, and static reasoning paradigms. By introducing novel frameworks that unify graph-based learning,
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Behavioural and Social Computing

12th International Conference, BESC 2025, Hong Kong SAR, China, October 16–18, 2025, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Tianyong Hao, Juan Velásquez, Qing Li, Bin Hu, Guandong Xu ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
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, ... Read more

$125.09 USD

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,
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Behavioural and Social Computing

12th International Conference, BESC 2025, Hong Kong SAR, China, October 16–18, 2025, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Tianyong Hao, Juan Velásquez, Qing Li, Bin Hu, Guandong Xu ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
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, ... Read more

$125.09 USD

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,
... Read more
Multimodal Event Detection on Social Media

by Zehang Lin, Qing Li ...

Series series Artificial Intelligence (R0)
This book systematically explores how to build reliable, cross-platform multimodal event detection systems that operate under open-world conditions in today's complex social media environment. It delves into three core challenges: information fragmentation caused by incomplete individual posts; cross-platform heterogeneity arising from the diverse ways different platforms (e.g., Twitter, Flickr) ... Read more

$152.09 USD

This book systematically explores how to build reliable, cross-platform multimodal event detection systems that operate under open-world conditions in today's complex social media environment. It delves into three core challenges: information fragmentation caused by incomplete individual posts; cross-platform heterogeneity arising from the diverse ways different platforms (e.g., Twitter, Flickr)
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Adaptive Nussbaum Design for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

by Yongliang Yang, Guilong Liu, Qing Li ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book focuses on the challenges of stability analysis and control synthesis for nonlinear dynamical systems, including stochastic systems, multi-agent systems, and nonholonomic systmes. With the adaptive Nussbaum design, this book investigates the asymptotic stabilization problem for nonlinear systems, addressing practical constraints such as physical limitations on system states to ensure ... Read more

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This book focuses on the challenges of stability analysis and control synthesis for nonlinear dynamical systems, including stochastic systems, multi-agent systems, and nonholonomic systmes. With the adaptive Nussbaum design, this book investigates the asymptotic stabilization problem for nonlinear systems, addressing practical constraints such as physical limitations on system states to ensure
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Intelligent Computing

Concepts, Principles and Applications

by Ruizhuo Song, Qinglai Wei, Qing Li, Shi Xing ...

Series series Artificial Intelligence (R0)
Intelligent computing is a computational approach primarily inspired by the objective laws governing biological groups in nature, as well as the behaviors of biological thinking and movement. It encompasses various algorithmic fields such as evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence computation, neural computation, and more. These algorithms typically achieve the goals of intelligent computing ... Read more

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Intelligent computing is a computational approach primarily inspired by the objective laws governing biological groups in nature, as well as the behaviors of biological thinking and movement. It encompasses various algorithmic fields such as evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence computation, neural computation, and more. These algorithms typically achieve the goals of intelligent computing
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Renewable Energy Grid Integration Assessment and Certification

by Qing Li, Jinping Zhang, Ziyu Chen, Shiyao Qin, Jing He ...

Series series Energy (R0)
This book proposes a method for grid integration assessment and certification of renewable energy , mainly through on-site inspection, simulation and on-site testing. It has established a renewable energy grid integrated certification system, combining "standards-test-certify", which is an effective means to ensure the power performance of renewable energy. The content of this book is selective, ... Read more

$143.09 USD

This book proposes a method for grid integration assessment and certification of renewable energy , mainly through on-site inspection, simulation and on-site testing. It has established a renewable energy grid integrated certification system, combining "standards-test-certify", which is an effective means to ensure the power performance of renewable energy. The content of this book is selective,
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Topic Modeling

Advanced Techniques and Applications

by Yanghui Rao, Qing Li ...

Series series Artificial Intelligence (R0)
As a well-known text mining tool, topic modeling can effectively discover the latent semantic structure of text data. Extracting topics from documents is also one of the fundamental challenges in natural language processing. Although topic models have seen significant achievements over the past three decades, there remains a scarcity of methods that effectively model temporal aspect. Moreover, ... Read more

$170.09 USD

As a well-known text mining tool, topic modeling can effectively discover the latent semantic structure of text data. Extracting topics from documents is also one of the fundamental challenges in natural language processing. Although topic models have seen significant achievements over the past three decades, there remains a scarcity of methods that effectively model temporal aspect. Moreover,
... Read more
5G Edge Computing

Technologies, Applications and Future Visions

by Xiao Ma, Mengwei Xu, Qing Li, Yuanzhe Li, Ao Zhou, Shangguang Wang ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Edge computing has been identified as one of the key technologies for 5G networks and beyond due to two prominent advantages: low network latency and reduced core network load. By empowering cloud capabilities and IT service environments at the network edge, edge computing can well support applications of 5G and beyond, such as augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), vehicular network (ultra-reliable ... Read more

$161.99 USD

Edge computing has been identified as one of the key technologies for 5G networks and beyond due to two prominent advantages: low network latency and reduced core network load. By empowering cloud capabilities and IT service environments at the network edge, edge computing can well support applications of 5G and beyond, such as augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), vehicular network (ultra-reliable
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Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2017

18th International Conference, Puschino, Russia, October 7-11, 2017, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Athman Bouguettaya, Yunjun Gao, Andrey Klimenko, Lu Chen, Xiangliang Zhang, Fedor Dzerzhinskiy, Weijia Jia, Stanislav V. Klimenko, Qing Li ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two-volume set LNCS 10569 and LNCS 10570 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2017, held in Puschino, Russia, in October 2017.The 49 full papers and 24 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as microblog data analysis, social network ... Read more

$49.49 USD

The two-volume set LNCS 10569 and LNCS 10570 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2017, held in Puschino, Russia, in October 2017.The 49 full papers and 24 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 195 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as microblog data analysis, social network
... Read more
Steel Corrosion and Degradation of its Mechanical Properties

by Chun-Qing Li, Wei Yang ...

This book presents the state-of-the-art-knowledge on corrosion of steel, cast iron and ductile iron with a focus on corrosion-induced degradation of their mechanical properties. The information presented in the book is largely derived from the most current research on the effect of corrosion on degradation of mechanical properties. The book covers the basics of steel corrosion, including that of ... Read more

$67.99 USD

This book presents the state-of-the-art-knowledge on corrosion of steel, cast iron and ductile iron with a focus on corrosion-induced degradation of their mechanical properties. The information presented in the book is largely derived from the most current research on the effect of corrosion on degradation of mechanical properties. The book covers the basics of steel corrosion, including that of
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