Xiang Li

Xiaofeng Xu

These conference proceedings focus on the topics of data-driven decision-making, stochastic decision-making, fuzzy decision-making and their applications in real-life problems. Beijing University of Chemical Technology organized IFDS2016, the 4th International Forum on Decision Sciences, with the theme “Data-Driven Decision-Making.” The proceedings collect 84 selected papers presenting cutting-edge modeling and solution methods and include numerous practical case studies, making it a valuable resource for students, researchers and practitioners working in the fields of decision science, operations research, management science and engineering.

Proceedings of the Fourth International Forum on Decision Sciences

Yong Liu

Zhihua Cai

Zhenhua Li

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications, ISICA 2012, held in Wuhan, China, in October 2012. The 72 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial life, adaptive behavior, agents, and ant colony optimization; combinatorial and numerical optimization; communications and computer networks; data mining; evolutionary multi-objective and dynamic optimization; intelligent computation, intelligent learning systems; neural networks; real-world applications.

6th International Symposium, ISICA 2012, Wuhan, China, October 27-28, 2012. Proceedings

Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems

Xiang Li geht der Frage nach, wie ein effizientes Aussprachetraining im Bereich der Prosodie für Deutsch als Fremdsprache in China aussieht. Die Prosodie gehört wegen ihrer Komplexität und schweren Greifbarkeit zu den schwierigsten phonodidaktischen Themen und Forschungsgegenständen. Li diskutiert zunächst die Besonderheiten des Lehrens und Lernens im Bereich der Prosodie. Es folgen eine kontrastive Analyse der prosodischen Merkmale des Chinesischen und Deutschen sowie eine Darstellung der darauf beruhenden potenziellen Interferenzfehler. Ausgehend von den Rahmenbedingungen im DaF-Unterricht identifiziert sie die daraus resultierenden Probleme für das Aussprachetraining. Als Lösungsansatz präsentiert sie eine von ihr entwickelte Serie von Lernvideos zum Thema Prosodie. Diese ist in ein Lernmodell integriert und mit lerngruppenspezifischen Materialien angereichert. Der Erfolg dieses videobasierten Konzepts ist empirisch untersucht und bestätigt.

Aussprachetraining im Bereich der Prosodie für chinesische DaF-Lernende

Xin Yang

This book provides a comprehensive presentation on energy-efficient management in urban rail transit system via operations research and uncertain optimization methods. It is suitable for researchers, engineers, and students in the fields of transport management. The readers will learn numerous new modeling ideas on reducing tractive energy consumption and improving regenerative energy utilization, and find this work a useful reference.

Subway Energy-Efficient Management

Guanrong Chen

Xiaofan Wang

Complex networks such as the Internet, WWW, transportation networks, power grids, biological neural networks, and scientific cooperation networks of all kinds provide challenges for future technological development. • The first systematic presentation of dynamical evolving networks, with many up-to-date applications and homework projects to enhance study • The authors are all very active and well-known in the rapidly evolving field of complex networks • Complex networks are becoming an increasingly important area of research • Presented in a logical, constructive style, from basic through to complex, examining algorithms, through to construct networks and research challenges of the future

Models, Structures and Dynamics

Fundamentals of Complex Networks

The proceedings volume consists of academic papers on decision-making under uncertainty, smart decision, stochastic optimization, management simulation and its applications. It presents some compelling and valuable results on the cutting-edge modeling methods and the practical case studies in the operations management process for power, transportation, and logistics companies.

Proceedings of the Fifth International Forum on Decision Sciences

Chien Chern Cheah

This book presents recent advances in robot control theory on task space sensory feedback control of robot manipulators. By using sensory feedback information, the robot control systems are robust to various uncertainties in modelling and calibration errors of the sensors. Several sensory task space control methods that do not require exact knowledge of either kinematics or dynamics of robots, are presented. Some useful methods such as approximate Jacobian control, adaptive Jacobian control, region control and multiple task space regional feedback are included. These formulations and methods give robots a high degree of flexibility in dealing with unforeseen changes and uncertainties in its kinematics and dynamics, which is similar to human reaching movements and tool manipulation. It also leads to the solution of several long-standing problems and open issues in robot control, such as force control with constraint uncertainty, control of multi-fingered robot hand with uncertain contact points, singularity issue of Jacobian matrix, global task-space control, which are also presented in this book. The target audience for this book includes scientists, engineers and practitioners involved in the field of robot control theory.

Task-Space Sensory Feedback Control of Robot Manipulators

Xianjiu Huang

Three-way decisions, as a decision-making mode which is consistent with human cognition, have been widely used in various fields. In this paper, we fuse the theory of reliability into the three-way decisions method, replace the conditional probability in the three-way decisions method with reliability, and then propose a novel three-way decisions method. We also describe the loss functions with single-valued triangular neutrosophic numbers (SVTNNs) and propose an operator to calculate the score function of triangular neutrosophic numbers. Then, the result of decision is attained according to the principle of minimizing loss. Finally, we apply this method to the overhaul of machines in a factory, which proves the practicability and effectiveness of the proposed methods.

The Three-Way Decisions Method Based on Theory of Reliability with SV-Triangular Neutrosophic Numbers

Cyril Ray

Michela Bertolotto

The 8th edition of the International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geograp- cal Information Systems (W2GIS 2008) was held in December 2008, in the vibrant city of Shanghai, China. This annual symposium aims at providing a forum for discussing advances on recent developments and research results in the ?eld of Web and wireless geographical information systems. Promoted from workshop to s- posium in 2005, W2GIS now represents a prestigious event within this dynamic research community. These proceedings contain the papers selected for presen- tion at this international event. For the 2008 edition, we received 38 submissions from 16 countries. All subm- ted papers were related to topics of interest to the symposium. Each paper received three reviews. Based on these reviews, 14 papers were selected for presentation and inclusion in the proceedings. The accepted papers are all of excellent quality and cover topics that range from mobile networks and location-based services, to contextual representation and mapping, to geospatial Web techniques, to object tracking in Web and mobile environments. We wish to thank all authors that contributed to this symposium for the high quality of their papers and presentations. Our sincere thanks go to Springer’s LNCS team. We would also like to acknowledge and thank the Program C- mittee members for the quality and timeliness of their reviews. Finally, many thanks to the Steering Committee members for providing continuous support and advice.

8th International Symposium, W2GIS 2008, Shanghai, China, December 11-12, 2008. Proceedings

Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems

M. Jevnikar Anthony

With all the issues of acceptance or rejection of a transplanted organ, immunology is a core subject for all translantation clinicians. This introduction to immunology in transplantation, written by experts from the AST immunology group, includes an overview of the immune system, up to the minute chapters on emerging and new technologies and coverage of immunosupressive drugs and protocols. A companion website allows readers to download the images featured in the book.

Transplant Immunology

Yan Ma

Juan Li

Beidou Xi

Yang Wang

Chenning Deng

Yanna Xiong

This book introduces readers to environmental background investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk assessment approaches used at three main types of groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills, hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites. In addition, typical contaminated sites throughout China are examined to demonstrate how these approaches can be applied for their investigation, assessment and restoration. By reading this book, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the restoration and management of typical groundwater-contaminated sites.

Investigation and Assessment Technology for Typical Groundwater-contaminated Sites and Application Cases

Jigang Jin

The explosive economic development in China over the last three decades has created social challenges unprecedented in the country's history. In response, China has overhauled its existing tort laws and even created new tort laws. By exploring its principles, theories and history, this book provides international readers a fresh outlook on China's tort law system. Granted that some concepts or theories in China's modern tort laws were "borrowed" from the west, the principles behind them can nevertheless often find their roots in ancient Chinese philosophies, concepts or even laws. This book also uses real cases to explain the courts' application of China's tort laws and the meaning of the corresponding statutes.

Concise Chinese Tort Laws

Jianhua Li

"Quality-Based Content Delivery over the Internet" mainly discusses the methodology of doing quality-based content delivery in an Internet environment. Because the network is becoming intelligent and active, more and more researchers are talking about achieving personalization and customization in Internet content delivery. As researchers are aware, by introducing intelligence into a web intermediary server, they can make the content delivery more efficient and of higher quality. Still, the detailed methodology of doing so is never illustrated fully. The most critical part will be the active content transformation model. This book gives a detailed description of the active content transformation model, and provides experiments and data to show its feasibility. Some examples of how to do efficient content transformation in active web intermediary to achieve high quality are also presented to help understand the whole process. The book is an introduction and excellent reference for researchers in the Internet content delivery area. Dr. Xiang Li is an associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the vice director of “National Research Lab of Content Analysis”, China; Dr. Jianhua Li is a professor at the same university and the director of the same lab.

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