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Metaheuristics for Resource Deployment under Uncertainty in Complex
Systems analyzes how to set locations for the deployment of
resources to incur the best performance at the lowest cost.
Resources can be static nodes and moving nodes while services for a
specific area or for customers can be provided. Theories of
modeling and solution techniques are used with uncertainty taken
into account and real-world applications used. The authors present
modeling and metaheuristics for solving resource deployment
problems under uncertainty while the models deployed are related to
stochastic programming, robust optimization, fuzzy programming,
risk management, and single/multi-objective optimization. The
resources are heterogeneous and can be sensors and actuators
providing different tasks. Both separate and cooperative coverage
of the resources are analyzed. Previous research has generally
dealt with one type of resource and considers static and
deterministic problems, so the book breaks new ground in its
analysis of cooperative coverage with heterogeneous resources and
the uncertain and dynamic properties of these resources using
metaheuristics. This book will help researchers, professionals,
academics, and graduate students in related areas to better
understand the theory and application of resource deployment
problems and theories of uncertainty, including problem
formulations, assumptions, and solution methods.
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in
times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly
anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his exploration
of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and
what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era
of Trump, mass shootings and the COVID-19 pandemic. With unexpected
playfulness and irrepressible humour, these anarchic poems
celebrate life, despite all that would crush aliveness. Hybrid in
form and set in New England, West Texas and a landlocked province
of China, among other places, Your Emergency Contact Has
Experienced an Emergency refuses neat categorisations and pat
answers. Instead, the book offers an insatiable curiosity about how
it is we keep finding ways to hold one another. Chen Chen's debut
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities was
published in the UK by Bloodaxe in 2019.
Metaheuristics for Resource Deployment under Uncertainty in Complex
Systems analyzes how to set locations for the deployment of
resources to incur the best performance at the lowest cost.
Resources can be static nodes and moving nodes while services for a
specific area or for customers can be provided. Theories of
modeling and solution techniques are used with uncertainty taken
into account and real-world applications used. The authors present
modeling and metaheuristics for solving resource deployment
problems under uncertainty while the models deployed are related to
stochastic programming, robust optimization, fuzzy programming,
risk management, and single/multi-objective optimization. The
resources are heterogeneous and can be sensors and actuators
providing different tasks. Both separate and cooperative coverage
of the resources are analyzed. Previous research has generally
dealt with one type of resource and considers static and
deterministic problems, so the book breaks new ground in its
analysis of cooperative coverage with heterogeneous resources and
the uncertain and dynamic properties of these resources using
metaheuristics. This book will help researchers, professionals,
academics, and graduate students in related areas to better
understand the theory and application of resource deployment
problems and theories of uncertainty, including problem
formulations, assumptions, and solution methods.
Over the past two decades, the banking industry has expanded and
consolidated at a stunningly unprecedented speed. In this time
banks have also moved from focusing purely on commercial banking
activities to being heavily involved in market-based and
transaction-oriented wholesale and investment banking activities.
By carrying out an all-encompassing set of activities, banks have
become large, complex, interconnected, and inclined to levels of
risk-taking not previously seen. With the onset of the 2008 global
financial crisis it became apparent that there was an issue of
institutions being too big to fail. This book analyses the
too-big-to-fail problem of banks in the EU. It approaches the topic
from an interdisciplinary perspective using behavioural finance as
a tool to examine the occurrence of the global financial crisis and
the emergence of the structural problem in large banking
institutions. The book draws a comparison between the EU, the US
and the UK and the relevant rules to assess the effectiveness of
various approaches to regulation in a global context. Chen Chen Hu
goes on to use behavioural analyses to provide new insights in
evaluating the current structural reform rules in the EU Proposal
on Bank Structural Regulation and the newly adopted bank recovery
and resolution regime in the EU Bank Recovery and Resolution
Directive and the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) in the Single
Resolution Regulation.
This book explores the concept of a fourth industrial revolution as
an expression of the current technological, economic, and social
changes sparked by the growing interconnectivity and intelligent
automation that have emerged in the 21st century. It seeks to
identify and explain the legal challenges posed by this phenomenon
in four main areas: content, economy, security, and people.Part I,
Content, considers e.g. the problems posed by new uses of protected
works in the digital environment, and the new rules on liability
for intermediary services contained in the Digital Services
Act.Part II, Economy, is particularly concerned with the regulation
of Big Tech in the EU’s Digital Markets Act, ecommerce and EU
consumers’ rights, the taxation of online platforms, and digital
advertising.Part III, Security, addresses the European Union
Strategy for Cybersecurity, the use of biometric data systems and
facial recognition technologies for law enforcement purposes, and
the security implications of the Proposal for an EU Regulation on
Artificial Intelligence, as well as the challenges entailed by the
European Union’s positioning itself as a major cyber defence
actor.Part IV, People, discusses the Data Protection Litigation
System under the GDPR, the right to disconnect from work, the
proposed EU Catalogue of Fundamental Digital Rights, the countering
of terrorist propaganda online through the TERREG and the DSA, and
AI and Fundamental Rights.
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates
inherited forms of love and family - the strained relationship
between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes - all from
Asian American, immigrant and queer perspectives. Holding all
accountable, this refreshingly candid and entertainingly
provocative collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant
joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life and
love. Foreword by Jericho Brown.
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
students' reading comprehension and higher-level thinking in
American contexts. It offers an introduction to Quality Talk and
demonstrates how it can be implemented in college level English
classes. It addresses students' three levels of English
proficiency: elementary, intermediate, and advanced. The respective
chapters discuss a range of aspects: students' language proficiency
levels, students' own viewpoints on the discussion approach,
students' academic backgrounds, teaching materials, and
culture-based learning. Readers will gain valuable insights into
the Quality Talk approach and how it can be implemented in the
classroom.
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
students' reading comprehension and higher-level thinking in
American contexts. It offers an introduction to Quality Talk and
demonstrates how it can be implemented in college level English
classes. It addresses students' three levels of English
proficiency: elementary, intermediate, and advanced. The respective
chapters discuss a range of aspects: students' language proficiency
levels, students' own viewpoints on the discussion approach,
students' academic backgrounds, teaching materials, and
culture-based learning. Readers will gain valuable insights into
the Quality Talk approach and how it can be implemented in the
classroom.
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications
in the field of robotics and mechatronics, as presented by leading
international researchers and engineers at the 6th IFToMM
International Symposium on Robotics and Mechatronics (ISRM), held
in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 28-30, 2019. It covers highly diverse
topics, including mechanism synthesis, analysis, and design,
kinematics and dynamics of multibody systems, modelling and
simulation, sensors and actuators, novel robotic systems,
industrial- and service-related robotics and mechatronics, medical
robotics, and historical developments in robotics and mechatronics.
The contributions, which were selected through a rigorous
international peer-review process, share exciting ideas that spur
novel research directions and foster new, multidisciplinary
collaborations.
This book introduces the sources and historic collection campaigns
of resource allocation in wireless communication systems. The
unique characteristics of MIMO-OFDMA systems are thoroughly studied
and summarized. Remarks on resource allocation and spectrum sharing
are also presented, which demonstrate the great value of resource
allocation techniques, but also introduce distinct challenges of
resource allocation in MIMO-OFDMA systems. Novel resource
allocation techniques for OFDMA Systems are surveyed from various
applications (e.g., for unicast, or multicast with Guaranteed BER
and Rate, subcarrier and power allocation with various detectors,
low-complexity energyefficient resource allocation, etc.) in this
book. Due to the high mobility and low latency requirements of 5G
wireless communications, this book discusses how to deal with the
imperfect CSI. It also discusses how to deal with e.g., throughput
maximization, outage probabilities maximization and guarantee,
energy efficiency, physical-layer security issues with feedback
channel capacity constraints, in order to characterize and
understand the applications of practical scenes. This book will
target professionals & researchers working in the fields of
Wireless Communications and Networking, Resource Allocation and
Transmissions. Advanced-level students in electrical engineering
and computer science will also find this book useful as a secondary
textbook.
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications
in the field of robotics and mechatronics, as presented by leading
international researchers and engineers at the 6th IFToMM
International Symposium on Robotics and Mechatronics (ISRM), held
in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 28-30, 2019. It covers highly diverse
topics, including mechanism synthesis, analysis, and design,
kinematics and dynamics of multibody systems, modelling and
simulation, sensors and actuators, novel robotic systems,
industrial- and service-related robotics and mechatronics, medical
robotics, and historical developments in robotics and mechatronics.
The contributions, which were selected through a rigorous
international peer-review process, share exciting ideas that spur
novel research directions and foster new, multidisciplinary
collaborations.
This book introduces the sources and historic collection campaigns
of resource allocation in wireless communication systems. The
unique characteristics of MIMO-OFDMA systems are thoroughly studied
and summarized. Remarks on resource allocation and spectrum sharing
are also presented, which demonstrate the great value of resource
allocation techniques, but also introduce distinct challenges of
resource allocation in MIMO-OFDMA systems. Novel resource
allocation techniques for OFDMA Systems are surveyed from various
applications (e.g., for unicast, or multicast with Guaranteed BER
and Rate, subcarrier and power allocation with various detectors,
low-complexity energyefficient resource allocation, etc.) in this
book. Due to the high mobility and low latency requirements of 5G
wireless communications, this book discusses how to deal with the
imperfect CSI. It also discusses how to deal with e.g., throughput
maximization, outage probabilities maximization and guarantee,
energy efficiency, physical-layer security issues with feedback
channel capacity constraints, in order to characterize and
understand the applications of practical scenes. This book will
target professionals & researchers working in the fields of
Wireless Communications and Networking, Resource Allocation and
Transmissions. Advanced-level students in electrical engineering
and computer science will also find this book useful as a secondary
textbook.
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Nano Devices and Sensors (Hardcover)
Juin J Liou, Shien-Kuei Liaw, Yung-Hui Chung; Contributions by Billion Abraham, Kuan-Chang Chang, …
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The chapters in this edited book are written by some authors who
have presented very high quality papers at the 2015 International
Symposium of Next-Generation Electronics (ISNE 2015) held in
Taipei, Taiwan. The ISNE 2015 was intended to provide a common
forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, and practitioners
throughout the world to present their latest research findings,
ideas, developments, and applications in the general areas of
electron devices, integrated circuits, and microelectronic systems
and technologies. The scope of the conference includes the
following topics: A. Green Electronics B. Microelectronic Circuits
and Systems C. Integrated Circuits and Packaging Technologies D.
Computer and Communication Engineering E. Electron Devices F.
Optoelectronic and Semiconductor Technologies The technical program
consisted of 4 plenary talks, 23 invited talks, and more than 250
contributed oral and poster presentations. Plenary speakers were
recognized experts in their fields, and their talks focused on
leading-edge technologies including: "The Future Lithographic
Technology for Semiconductor Fabrication" by Dr. Alek C. Chen, Asia
ASML, Taiwan. "Detection of Single Traps and Characterization of
Individual Traps: Beginning of Atomistic Reliability Physics" by
Prof. Toshiaki Tsuchiya, Shimane University, Japan. "The Art and
Science of Packaging High-Coupling Photonics Devices and Modules",
by Prof. Wood-Hi Cheng, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan.
"Prospect and Outlook of Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection
in Emerging Technologies", by Prof. Juin J. Liou, University of
Central Florida, USA. After a rigorous review process, the ISNE
2015 technical program committee has selected 10 outstanding
presentations and invited the authors to prepare extended chapters
for inclusion in this edited book. Of the 10 chapters, five are
focused on the subject of electronic devices, and the other covers
the circuit designs for various applications. The authors are
working at the academia in Austria, United States, Korea, and
Taiwan. The guest editors would like to take this opportunity to
express our sincere gratitude to all the members of the ISNE 2015
technical program committees for reviewing the papers and selecting
the manuscripts for the edited book. We also thank all the authors
for their valuable and excellent contributions to the book.
This book focuses on information literacy in higher education from
Asian countries. It explores the changing concepts, philosophies,
learning environments, and technological environments of
information literacy and discusses how information literacy
education in universities should be carried out in the context of
the information literacy framework. It also analyses the research
focus and trends of information literacy education in universities
in the past ten years worldwide and Asia by using the bibliometric
method as well as the information literacy education models of
universities in Asian countries. In addition, this book also
explains the current status of information literacy education and
related issues in Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and
Vietnam. The target audience of this book is mainly university
librarians, school librarians, the faculty and students of library
and information sciences, information education and technology
education related departments worldwide.
Over the past two decades, the banking industry has expanded and
consolidated at a stunningly unprecedented speed. In this time
banks have also moved from focusing purely on commercial banking
activities to being heavily involved in market-based and
transaction-oriented wholesale and investment banking activities.
By carrying out an all-encompassing set of activities, banks have
become large, complex, interconnected, and inclined to levels of
risk-taking not previously seen. With the onset of the 2008 global
financial crisis it became apparent that there was an issue of
institutions being too big to fail. This book analyses the
too-big-to-fail problem of banks in the EU. It approaches the topic
from an interdisciplinary perspective using behavioural finance as
a tool to examine the occurrence of the global financial crisis and
the emergence of the structural problem in large banking
institutions. The book draws a comparison between the EU, the US
and the UK and the relevant rules to assess the effectiveness of
various approaches to regulation in a global context. Chen Chen Hu
goes on to use behavioural analyses to provide new insights in
evaluating the current structural reform rules in the EU Proposal
on Bank Structural Regulation and the newly adopted bank recovery
and resolution regime in the EU Bank Recovery and Resolution
Directive and the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM) in the Single
Resolution Regulation.
Networks naturally appear in many high-impact domains, ranging from
social network analysis to disease dissemination studies to
infrastructure system design. Within network studies, network
connectivity plays an important role in a myriad of applications.
The diversity of application areas has spurred numerous
connectivity measures, each designed for some specific tasks.
Depending on the complexity of connectivity measures, the
computational cost of calculating the connectivity score can vary
significantly. Moreover, the complexity of the connectivity would
predominantly affect the hardness of connectivity optimization,
which is a fundamental problem for network connectivity studies.
This book presents a thorough study in network connectivity,
including its concepts, computation, and optimization.
Specifically, a unified connectivity measure model will be
introduced to unveil the commonality among existing connectivity
measures. For the connectivity computation aspect, the authors
introduce the connectivity tracking problems and present several
effective connectivity inference frameworks under different network
settings. Taking the connectivity optimization perspective, the
book analyzes the problem theoretically and introduces an
approximation framework to effectively optimize the network
connectivity. Lastly, the book discusses the new research frontiers
and directions to explore for network connectivity studies. This
book is an accessible introduction to the study of connectivity in
complex networks. It is essential reading for advanced
undergraduates, Ph.D. students, as well as researchers and
practitioners who are interested in graph mining, data mining, and
machine learning.
This book offers an overview of traditional big visual data
analysis approaches and provides state-of-the-art solutions for
several scene comprehension problems, indoor/outdoor
classification, outdoor scene classification, and outdoor scene
layout estimation. It is illustrated with numerous natural and
synthetic color images, and extensive statistical analysis is
provided to help readers visualize big visual data distribution and
the associated problems. Although there has been some research on
big visual data analysis, little work has been published on big
image data distribution analysis using the modern statistical
approach described in this book. By presenting a complete
methodology on big visual data analysis with three illustrative
scene comprehension problems, it provides a generic framework that
can be applied to other big visual data analysis tasks.
Intelligent multimedia involves the computer processing and
understanding of perceptual input from speech, text, videos and
images. Reacting to these inputs is complex and involves research
from engineering, computer science and cognitive science.
Intelligent multimedia processing deals with the analysis of images
and videos to extract useful information for numerous applications
including medical imaging, robotics, remote sensing, autonomous
driving, AR/VR, law enforcement, biometrics, multimedia enhancement
and reconstruction, agriculture, and security. Intelligent
multimedia processing and computer vision have seen an upsurge over
the last few years. With the increasing use of intelligent
multimedia processing techniques in various sectors, the
requirement for fast and reliable techniques to analyse and process
multimedia content is increasing day by day. Intelligent Multimedia
Processing and Computer Vision: Techniques and applications reviews
cutting edge research in the areas of intelligent multimedia
processing and computer vision techniques and applications with a
particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches and novel
solutions. The book is aimed at practicing engineers, scientists,
technology professionals, researchers and advanced students in the
fields of multimedia processing and security, image processing,
computer vision, biometrics, intelligent and smart technologies,
machine learning and deep learning, and autonomous systems.
In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates
inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship
between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from
Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all
accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and
abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity,
life, and love. In the Hospital My mother was in the hospital &
everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good
dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My
mother was in the hospital & no one wanted to be her friend.
Everyone wanted to be soft cooing sympathies. Very reasonable
pigeons. No one had the time & our solution to it was to buy
shinier watches. We were enamored with what our wrists could
declare. My mother was in the hospital & I didn't want to be
her friend. Typical son. Tall latte, short tale, bad plot, great
wifi in the atypical cafe. My mother was in the hospital & she
didn't want to be her friend. She wanted to be the family grocery
list. Low-fat yogurt, firm tofu. She didn't trust my father to be
it. You always forget something, she said, even when I do the list
for you. Even then. Chen Chen was born in Xiamen, China, and grew
up in Massachusetts. His work has appeared in two chapbooks and in
such publications as Poetry, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Best of
the Net, and The Best American Poetry. The recipient of the 2016 A.
Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, he has been awarded fellowships from
Kundiman, the Saltonstall Foundation, Lambda Literary, and in 2015,
he was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg
Poetry Fellowships. He earned his BA at Hampshire College and his
MFA at Syracuse University. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in
English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. Chen lives
in Lubbock, Texas, with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug
dog, Rupert Giles.
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in
times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly
anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his
investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one
inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living
through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Always at work in the wrecked heart of this new collection is a
switchboard operator, picking up and connecting calls. Raucous 2
a.m. prank calls. Whispered-in-a-classroom emergency calls. And
sometimes, its pages record the dropping of a call, a failure or
refusal to pick up. With irrepressible humor and play, these
anarchic poems celebrate life, despite all that would crush
aliveness. Hybrid in form and set in New England, West Texas, and a
landlocked province of China, among other places, Your Emergency
Contact Has Experienced an Emergency refuses neat categorizations
and pat answers. Instead, the book offers an insatiable curiosity
about how it is we keep finding ways to hold onto one another.
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