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  • Self-Commissioning Wireless Power Transfer

    A New Control Paradigm

    by Yun Yang ...
    This accessible guide describes the design and implementation of new front-end monitoring and control strategies for wireless power transfer (WPT). The new control paradigm moves all receiver-side controllers to the transmitter side to enable multiple advantages over conventional designs.Self‑Commissioning Wireless Power Transfer: A New Control Paradigm provides readers with information in three ... Read more

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  • Early Tang China and the World, 618–750 CE

    by Shao-yun Yang ...
    Series series Elements in the Global Middle Ages
    For about half a century, the Tang dynasty has held a reputation as the most 'cosmopolitan' period in Chinese history, marked by unsurpassed openness to foreign peoples and cultures and active promotion of international trade. Heavily influenced by Western liberal ideals and contemporary China's own self-fashioning efforts, this glamorous image of the Tang calls for some critical reexamination. ... Read more

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  • Late Tang China and the World, 750–907 CE

    by Shao-yun Yang ...
    Series series Elements in the Global Middle Ages
    In recent decades, the Tang dynasty (618-907) has acquired a reputation as the most 'cosmopolitan' period in Chinese history. The standard narrative also claims that this cosmopolitan openness faded after the An Lushan Rebellion of 755-763, to be replaced by xenophobic hostility toward all things foreign. This Element reassesses the cosmopolitanism-to-xenophobia narrative and presents a more ... Read more

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  • The Way of the Barbarians

    Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China

    by Shao-yun Yang ...
    Shao-yun Yang challenges assumptions that the cultural and socioeconomic watershed of the Tang-Song transition (800–1127 CE) was marked by a xenophobic or nationalist hardening of ethnocultural boundaries in response to growing foreign threats. In that period, reinterpretations of Chineseness and its supposed antithesis, “barbarism,” were not straightforward products of political change but had ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Design of Cloud Workflow Systems

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Cloud computing is the latest market-oriented computing paradigm which brings software design and development into a new era characterized by “XaaS”, i.e. everything as a service. Cloud workflows, as typical software applications in the cloud, are composed of a set of partially ordered cloud software services to achieve specific goals. However, due to the low QoS (quality of service) nature of the ... Read more

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  • Reliability Assurance of Big Data in the Cloud

    Cost-Effective Replication-Based Storage

    With the rapid growth of Cloud computing, the size of Cloud data is expanding at a dramatic speed. A huge amount of data is generated and processed by Cloud applications, putting a higher demand on cloud storage. While data reliability should already be a requirement, data in the Cloud needs to be stored in a highly cost-effective manner. This book focuses on the trade-off between data storage ... Read more

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  • Temporal Data Mining via Unsupervised Ensemble Learning

    by Yun Yang ...
    Temporal Data Mining via Unsupervised Ensemble Learning provides the principle knowledge of temporal data mining in association with unsupervised ensemble learning and the fundamental problems of temporal data clustering from different perspectives. By providing three proposed ensemble approaches of temporal data clustering, this book presents a practical focus of fundamental knowledge and ... Read more

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  • Temporal QOS Management in Scientific Cloud Workflow Systems

    Cloud computing can provide virtually unlimited scalable high performance computing resources. Cloud workflows often underlie many large scale data/computation intensive e-science applications such as earthquake modelling, weather forecasting and astrophysics. During application modelling, these sophisticated processes are redesigned as cloud workflows, and at runtime, the models are executed by ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Computation and Storage in the Cloud

    Understanding the Trade-Offs

    Computation and Storage in the Cloud is the first comprehensive and systematic work investigating the issue of computation and storage trade-off in the cloud in order to reduce the overall application cost. Scientific applications are usually computation and data intensive, where complex computation tasks take a long time for execution and the generated datasets are often terabytes or petabytes in ... Read more

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  • Future Information Technology - II

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a ... Read more

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