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Resource Management in Utility and Cloud Computing
by Han Zhao Xiaolin LiThis SpringerBrief reviews the existing market-oriented strategies for economically managing resource allocation in distributed systems. It describes three new schemes that address cost-efficiency, user incentives, and allocation fairness with regard to different scheduling contexts. The first scheme, taking the Amazon EC2(tm) market as a case of study, investigates the optimal resource rental planning models based on linear integer programming and stochastic optimization techniques. This model is useful to explore the interaction between the cloud infrastructure provider and the cloud resource customers. The second scheme targets a free-trade resource market, studying the interactions amongst multiple rational resource traders. Leveraging an optimization framework from AI, this scheme examines the spontaneous exchange of resources among multiple resource owners. Finally, the third scheme describes an experimental market-oriented resource sharing platform inspired by eBay's transaction model. The study presented in this book sheds light on economic models and their implication to the utility-oriented scheduling problems.
Wireless and Satellite Systems: 13th EAI International Conference, WiSATS 2022, Virtual Event, Singapore, March 12-13, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #509)
by Jun ZhaoThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Services, WiSATS 2022, held in March 12-13, 2023. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 9 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Security and Privacy in Healthcare, Transportation, and Satellite Networks, Advanced Technologies in Wireless Communication Systems, Network Efficiency and Reliability.
Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing. Knowledge Computing and Language Understanding: Third China Conference, CCKS 2018, Tianjin, China, August 14–17, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #957)
by Jun Zhao Frank Van Harmelen Jie Tang Xianpei Han Quan Wang Xianyong LiThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2018, held in Tianjin, China, in August 2018.The 27 revised full papers and 2 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 101 submissions. The papers cover wide research fields including the knowledge graph, information extraction, knowledge representation and reasoning, linked data.
Data-Driven Prediction for Industrial Processes and Their Applications (Information Fusion and Data Science)
by Jun Zhao Wei Wang Chunyang ShengThis book presents modeling methods and algorithms for data-driven prediction and forecasting of practical industrial process by employing machine learning and statistics methodologies. Related case studies, especially on energy systems in the steel industry are also addressed and analyzed. The case studies in this volume are entirely rooted in both classical data-driven prediction problems and industrial practice requirements. Detailed figures and tables demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization of the methods addressed, and the classifications of the addressed prediction problems come from practical industrial demands, rather than from academic categories. As such, readers will learn the corresponding approaches for resolving their industrial technical problems. Although the contents of this book and its case studies come from the steel industry, these techniques can be also used for other process industries. This book appeals to students, researchers, and professionals within the machine learning and data analysis and mining communities.
Cooperative Spectrum Sensing and Resource Allocation Strategies in Cognitive Radio Networks (SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering)
by Lian Zhao Sattar Hussain Ajmery Sultana Xavier FernandoCognitive radio networks (CRN) will be widely deployed in the near future, and this SpringerBrief covers some important aspects of it, as well as highlighting optimization strategies in Resource Allocation and Spectrum Sensing in CRNs. The cognitive approach in radio access is introduced in the first part of this SpringerBrief, and then next the benefits of cooperative spectrum sensing are highlighted and a framework for studying it under realistic channel conditions is described. New exact closed-form expressions for average false alarm probability and average detection probability are derived in this scenario. A novel approximation to alleviate the computational complexity of the proposed models are also discussed.Once the spectrum opportunities are identified, efficient and systematic resource allocation (RA) shall be performed. The second part of this SpringerBrief describes the taxonomy for the RA process in CRN. A comprehensive overview of the optimization strategies of the CRN RA is also provided. The device-to-device (D2D) communication scenario is discussed, then as a case study and various optimization strategies for the application of the CR technology in the D2D realm is studied. The application of advanced geometric water-filling (GWF) approach in CRN D2D environment for optimum resource allocation is presented in detail. Numerical results provide more insight quantitatively. Overall, this book is suitable for a wide audience that include students, faculty and researchers in wireless communication area and professionals in the wireless service industry.
Advances in Crowdfunding: Research and Practice
by Liang Zhao Rotem Shneor Bjørn-Tore FlåtenThis open access book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date collection of knowledge on the state of crowdfunding research and practice. It considers crowdfunding models and their different manifestations across a variety of geographies and sectors, and explores the perspectives of fundraisers, backers, platforms, and regulators. Gathering insights from a wide range of influential researchers in the field, the book balances concepts, theory, and case studies. Going beyond previous research on crowdfunding, the contributors also investigate issues of community, sustainability, education, and ethics. A vital resource for anyone researching crowdfunding, this book offers readers a deep understanding of the characteristics, business models, user-relations, and behavioural patterns of crowdfunding.
High Accuracy Surface Modeling Method: The Robustness
by Na Zhao TianXiang YueThis book focuses on the robustness analysis of high accuracy surface modeling method (HASM) to yield good performance of it. Understanding the sensitivity and uncertainty is important in model applications. The book aims to advance an integral framework for assessing model error that can demonstrate robustness across sets of possible controls, variable definitions, standard error, algorithm structure, and functional forms. It is an essential reference to the most promising numerical models. In areas where there is less certainty about models, but also high expectations of transparency, robustness analysis should aspire to be as broad as possible. This book also contains a chapter at the end featuring applications in climate simulation illustrating different implementations of HASM in surface modeling. The book is helpful for people involved in geographical information science, ecological informatics, geography, earth observation, and planetary surface modeling.
Digital Management of Container Terminal Operations
by Ning Zhao Yuan Liu Weijian Mi Yifan Shen Mengjue XiaThis book presents a comprehensive study on intelligent container terminals. Based on the development experience gained to date with container terminals, it analyzes information flows and their interactions with container terminals; illustrates the operation management process from information collection to resource planning and from equipment scheduling to field operation; highlights several dynamic decision-making problems concerning digital operation processes and container terminals; reveals the basis of the discrete logistics system; and discusses the future of intelligent container terminals.
Advances in Graphic Communication, Printing and Packaging: Proceedings of 2018 9th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #543)
by Pengfei Zhao Yun Ouyang Min Xu Li Yang Yuhui RenThis book includes a selection of reviewed papers presented at the 9th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging, which was held in November 2018 in Shandong, China. The conference was jointly organized by the China Academy of Printing Technology and Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences). With 8 keynote talks and over 200 presented papers on graphic communication and packaging technologies, the conference attracted more than 300 scientists.The proceedings cover the recent findings in color science and technology, image processing technology, digital media technology, mechanical engineering and numerical control, materials and detection, digital process management technology in printing and packaging, and other technologies. As such, the book is of interest to university researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in the field of graphic arts, packaging, color science, image science, material science, computer science, digital media, and network technology.
Interdisciplinary Research for Printing and Packaging (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #896)
by Pengfei Zhao Zhuangzhi Ye Min Xu Li Yang Linghao Zhang Shu YanThis book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 12th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging (CACPP 2021), held in Beijing, China on November 12-14, 2021. The proceedings cover the recent findings in color science and technology, image processing technology, digital media technology, mechanical and electronic engineering and numerical control, materials and detection, digital process management technology in printing and packaging, and other technologies. As such, the book is of interest to university researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in the field of graphic arts, packaging, color science, image science, material science, computer science, digital media, network technology, and smart manufacturing technology.
Advances in Graphic Communication, Printing and Packaging Technology and Materials: Proceedings of 2020 11th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #754)
by Pengfei Zhao Zhuangzhi Ye Min Xu Li Yang Linghao Zhang Rengao ZhuThis book includes a selection of reviewed papers presented at the 11th China Academic Conference on Printing and Packaging, held on November 26–29, 2020, Guangzhou, China. The conference is jointly organized by China Academy of Printing Technology and South China University of Technology. With 10 keynote talks and 200 presented papers on graphic communication and packaging technologies, the conference attracted more than 300 scientists.The proceedings cover the recent findings in color science and technology, image processing technology, digital media technology, mechanical and electronic engineering and numerical control, materials and detection, digital process management technology in printing and packaging, and other technologies. As such, the book is of interest to university researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in the field of graphic arts, packaging, color science, image science, material science, computer science, digital media, network technology and smart manufacturing technology.
Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools: 14th EAI International Conference, VALUETOOLS 2021, Virtual Event, October 30–31, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #404)
by Qianchuan Zhao Li XiaThis book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools, VALUETOOLS 2021, held in October 2021. Due to the safety concerns and travel restrictions caused by COVID-19, VALUETOOLS took place online in a live stream. VALUETOOLS 2021 aims to provide a world-leading and multidisciplinary venue for researchers and practitioners in diverse disciplines such as computer science, networks and telecommunications, operations research, optimization, control theory and manufacturing. The 16 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions and focus on methodologies and practices in modelling, performance evaluation and optimization of complex systems.
Point-of-Interest Recommendation in Location-Based Social Networks (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Shenglin Zhao Michael R. Lyu Irwin KingThis book systematically introduces Point-of-interest (POI) recommendations in Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs). Starting with a review of the advances in this area, the book then analyzes user mobility in LBSNs from geographical and temporal perspectives. Further, it demonstrates how to build a state-of-the-art POI recommendation system by incorporating the user behavior analysis. Lastly, the book discusses future research directions in this area. This book is intended for professionals involved in POI recommendation and graduate students working on problems related to location-based services. It is assumed that readers have a basic knowledge of mathematics, as well as some background in recommendation systems.
Principle of Criminal Imputation for Negligence Crime Involving Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence and the Rule of Law)
by Shuhong ZhaoThis book provides an in-depth discussion of the theoretical and practical issues of criminal imputation for negligence crime involving artificial intelligence. Accordingly, this study combines the imputation challenges brought about by AI with traditional criminal imputation theory and analyses imputation for negligence crime involving AI from three aspects: the basic principles, structure, and results of imputation for negligence crime involving AI. The traditional theory of imputation is discussed in detail. The readership is a group of people interested in this topic, including, in particular, interested laymen, undergraduate students and postgraduate researchers. The highlights of this book are it identifies the imputation challenges bought about by AI, reveals the theoretical and practical gap in the criminal imputation of negligent crimes involving AI, and provides an in-depth and creative ideas of criminal imputation for the negligent crimes involving AI.
Spintronics-based Computing
by Weisheng Zhao Guillaume PrenatThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to spintronics-based computing for the next generation of ultra-low power/highly reliable logic. It will cover aspects from device to system-level, including magnetic memory cells, device modeling, hybrid circuit structure, design methodology, CAD tools, and technological integration methods. This book is accessible to a variety of readers and little or no background in magnetism and spin electronics are required to understand its content. The multidisciplinary team of expert authors from circuits, devices, computer architecture, CAD and system design reveal to readers the potential of spintronics nanodevices to reduce power consumption, improve reliability and enable new functionality.
Building Dependable Distributed Systems
by Wenbing ZhaoThis book covers the most essential techniques for designing and building dependable distributed systems. Instead of covering a broad range of research works for each dependability strategy, the book focuses only a selected few (usually the most seminal works, the most practical approaches, or the first publication of each approach) are included and explained in depth, usually with a comprehensive set of examples. The goal is to dissect each technique thoroughly so that readers who are not familiar with dependable distributed computing can actually grasp the technique after studying the book.The book contains eight chapters. The first chapter introduces the basic concepts and terminologies of dependable distributed computing, and also provide an overview of the primary means for achieving dependability. The second chapter describes in detail the checkpointing and logging mechanisms, which are the most commonly used means to achieve limited degree of fault tolerance. Such mechanisms also serve as the foundation for more sophisticated dependability solutions. Chapter three covers the works on recovery-oriented computing, which focus on the practical techniques that reduce the fault detection and recovery times for Internet-based applications. Chapter four outlines the replication techniques for data and service fault tolerance. This chapter also pays particular attention to optimistic replication and the CAP theorem. Chapter five explains a few seminal works on group communication systems. Chapter six introduces the distributed consensus problem and covers a number of Paxos family algorithms in depth. Chapter seven introduces the Byzantine generals problem and its latest solutions, including the seminal Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT) algorithm and a number of its derivatives. The final chapter covers the latest research results on application-aware Byzantine fault tolerance, which is an important step forward towards practical use of Byzantine fault tolerance techniques.
From Traditional Fault Tolerance to Blockchain
by Wenbing ZhaoThis book covers the most essential techniques for designing and building dependable distributed systems, from traditional fault tolerance to the blockchain technology. Topics include checkpointing and logging, recovery-orientated computing, replication, distributed consensus, Byzantine fault tolerance, as well as blockchain. This book intentionally includes traditional fault tolerance techniques so that readers can appreciate better the huge benefits brought by the blockchain technology and why it has been touted as a disruptive technology, some even regard it at the same level of the Internet. This book also expresses a grave concern on using traditional consensus algorithms in blockchain because with the limited scalability of such algorithms, the primary benefits of using blockchain in the first place, such as decentralization and immutability, could be easily lost under cyberattacks.
Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Systems: 13th International Conference, Qshine 2017, Dalian, China, December 16-17, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #234)
by Wenbing Zhao Tie Qiu Lei WangThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness in Heterogeneous Networks, QShine 2017, held in Dalian, China, in December 2017. The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers are organized thematically in tracks, starting with mobile and wireless networks, quality and reliability, wireless networking algorithms and protocols, and smart applications.
Digital Forensics and Watermarking: 20th International Workshop, IWDW 2021, Beijing, China, November 20–22, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13180)
by Xianfeng Zhao Alessandro Piva Pedro Comesaña-AlfaroThis volume constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2021, held in Beijing, China, in November 2021. The 18 full papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The are categorized in the following topical headings: Forensics and Security Analysis; Watermarking and Steganology.
Digital Forensics and Watermarking: 19th International Workshop, IWDW 2020, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 25–27, 2020, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12617)
by Xianfeng Zhao Yun-Qing Shi Alessandro Piva Hyoung Joong KimThis volume constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2020, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in November 2020.The 20 full papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. They cover topics such as: novel research, development and application of digital watermarking and forensics techniques for multimedia security.
Digital Forensics and Watermarking: 21st International Workshop, IWDW 2022, Guilin, China, November 18-19, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13825)
by Xianfeng Zhao Zhenjun Tang Pedro Comesaña-Alfaro Alessandro PivaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Workshop, IWDW 2022, held in Guilin, China, during November 18-19, 2022. The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Steganology, Forensics and Security Analysis, Watermarking.
Entity Alignment: Concepts, Recent Advances and Novel Approaches (Big Data Management)
by Xiang Zhao Weixin Zeng Jiuyang TangThis open access book systematically investigates the topic of entity alignment, which aims to detect equivalent entities that are located in different knowledge graphs. Entity alignment represents an essential step in enhancing the quality of knowledge graphs, and hence is of significance to downstream applications, e.g., question answering and recommender systems. Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the number of entity alignment frameworks, while the relationships among them remain unclear. This book aims to fill that gap by elaborating the concept and categorization of entity alignment, reviewing recent advances in entity alignment approaches, and introducing novel scenarios and corresponding solutions.Specifically, the book includes comprehensive evaluations and detailed analyses of state-of-the-art entity alignment approaches and strives to provide a clear picture of the strengths and weaknesses of the currently available solutions, so as to inspire follow-up research. In addition, it identifies novel entity alignment scenarios and explores the issues of large-scale data, long-tail knowledge, scarce supervision signals, lack of labelled data, and multimodal knowledge, offering potential directions for future research. The book offers a valuable reference guide for junior researchers, covering the latest advances in entity alignment, and a valuable asset for senior researchers, sharing novel entity alignment scenarios and their solutions. Accordingly, it will appeal to a broad audience in the fields of knowledge bases, database management, artificial intelligence and big data.
Information Modeling for Interoperable Dimensional Metrology
by Y Zhao Robert Brown T Kramer Xun XuDimensional metrology is an essential part of modern manufacturing technologies, but the basic theories and measurement methods are no longer sufficient for today's digitized systems. The information exchange between the software components of a dimensional metrology system not only costs a great deal of money, but also causes the entire system to lose data integrity. Information Modeling for Interoperable Dimensional Metrology analyzes interoperability issues in dimensional metrology systems and describes information modeling techniques. It discusses new approaches and data models for solving interoperability problems, as well as introducing process activities, existing and emerging data models, and the key technologies of dimensional metrology systems. Written for researchers in industry and academia, as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, this book gives both an overview and an in-depth understanding of complete dimensional metrology systems. By covering in detail the theory and main content, techniques, and methods used in dimensional metrology systems, Information Modeling for Interoperable Dimensional Metrology enables readers to solve real-world dimensional measurement problems in modern dimensional metrology practices.
Distributed Multiple Description Coding
by Yao Zhao Huihui Bai Jeng-Shyang Pan Ajith Abraham Anhong WangThis book examines distributed video coding (DVC) and multiple description coding (MDC), two novel techniques designed to address the problems of conventional image and video compression coding. Covering all fundamental concepts and core technologies, the chapters can also be read as independent and self-sufficient, describing each methodology in sufficient detail to enable readers to repeat the corresponding experiments easily. Topics and features: provides a broad overview of DVC and MDC, from the basic principles to the latest research; covers sub-sampling based MDC, quantization based MDC, transform based MDC, and FEC based MDC; discusses Sleplian-Wolf coding based on Turbo and LDPC respectively, and comparing relative performance; includes original algorithms of MDC and DVC; presents the basic frameworks and experimental results, to help readers improve the efficiency of MDC and DVC; introduces the classical DVC system for mobile communications, providing the developmental environment in detail.
Image and Graphics: 10th International Conference, ICIG 2019, Beijing, China, August 23–25, 2019, Proceedings, Part III (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11903)
by Yao Zhao Nick Barnes Baoquan Chen Rüdiger Westermann Xiangwei Kong Chunyu LinThis three-volume set LNCS 11901, 11902, and 11903 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 10thth International Conference on Image and Graphics, ICIG 2019, held in Beijing, China, in August 2019. The 183 full papers presented were selected from 384 submissions and focus on advances of theory, techniques and algorithms as well as innovative technologies of image, video and graphics processing and fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and networking.