This book offers an introduction to various models and methods for green supplier evaluation and selection (GSES) within different information settings. As such, it provides valuable knowledge, use…
This handbook includes three parts, corresponding to the following three domains of OR/MS research related to sustainability: (i) Systems Design, Innovation, and Technology, (ii) Manufacturing, Log…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Frontiers in Algorithmics, FAW 2021, held in conjunction with second International Joint Conference on Theoretical Comput…
This volume brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars from diverse fields including computer science, engineering, archival science, law, business, psychology, economics, medicine and m…
Unlike other economies, family businesses in China are greatly affected by the derived Confucian culture, excessive marketization, as well as the seemingly endless institutional supervision by a tr…
The two-volume set LNAI 13725 and 13726 constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2022, which took place in Brisbane, Queenslan…
This two-volume set LNCS 13317 and 13318 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2022, held virtually as p…
Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context…
This book presents the most recent innovative studies in the field of water resources for arid areas to move towards more sustainable management of the resources. It gathers outstanding contributio…
This volume contains state of the engineering practice and recent research in the field of built infrastructure and natural hazards. It is expected that the book will help engineers and researchers…
This book considers the impact of global climate change, advocating to promote sustainable development from the perspective of low carbon and climate resilience, by reducing carbon emissions in dif…
This book introduces the components and principles of the common ballast management systems. The working principles of different filtration, cleaning and sterilizing equipment are also introduced. …
This book focuses on the geological characteristics and genesis of several base metal deposits in the northern margin of the North China Plate, namely the Bainaimiao Cu-Au-Mo, the Huogeqi Cu-Pb-Zn,…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Machine Learning for Medical Reconstruction, MLMIR 2022, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, in September 2022,…
Fisheries resources are an important component of natural resources. It is an important source of high-quality animal protein and food for humans, which provides employment, economic benefits and s…
The 3-volume set LNAI 13280, LNAI 13281 and LNAI 13282 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2022, which was held…
This book analyses climate change influences on rainfall erosivity and soil erosion across Central Asia, provides an overview (past and projections) on the Central Asian countries where projected c…
This open access book provides a comprehensive treatment of recent developments in kernel-based identification that are of interest to anyone engaged in learning dynamic systems from data. The read…
This book discusses various aspects of percolation mechanics. It starts with the driving forces and driving modes and then examines in detail the steady state percolation of single-phase incompress…
Opinion mining is a prevalent research issue in many domains. In the financial domain, however, it is still in the early stages. Most of the researches on this topic only focus on the coarse-graine…
This book explores the application of a significant discussion approach, Quality Talk, to English learning in Taiwanese college classrooms. Quality Talk has been found to successfully enhance stude…
This book explains the rationale of the changes and challenges of Taiwanese citizenship which emphasizes the various identities in the global and multicultural era. It explores the evolving relatio…
This book highlights reliable, valid and practical testing and assessment of interpreting, presenting important developments in China, where testing and assessment have long been a major concern fo…
This book includes the original, peer reviewed research papers from the conference, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems (ICITES2013),…
This volume provides the audience with an updated, in-depth and highly coherent material on the conceptually appealing and practically sound information technology of Computational Intelligence app…
Unifying Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering is based on the Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEE 2012). This book collect…