Processes of flow and displacement of multiphase fluids through porous media occur in many subsurface systems and have found wide applications in many scientific, technical, and engineering fields. This book focuses on the fundamental theory of fluid flow in porous media, covering fluid flow theory in classical and complex porous media, such as fractured porous media and physicochemical fluid flow theory. Key concepts are introduced concisely and derivations of equations are presented logically. Solutions of some practical problems are given so that the reader can understand how to apply these abstract equations to real world situations. The content has been extended to cover fluid flow in unconventional reservoirs. This book is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students as a textbook in petroleum engineering, hydrogeology, groundwater hydrology, soil sciences, and other related engineering fields.

This book constitutes the proceedings of First International Workshop, TML4H 2023, held virtually, in May 2023.The 16 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts from academia, clinic, and industry with an insightful vision of promoting trustworthy machine learning in healthcare in terms of scalability, accountability, and explainability.

This book brings together scientific experts in different areas that contribute to the design, analysis, and performance of sustainable pavements. This book also contributes to transportation engineering challenges and solutions, evaluate the state of the art, identify the shortcomings and opportunities for research, and promote the interaction with the industry. In particular, scientific topics that are addressed in this book include the use of different waste and recycled materials to improve pavement performance, pavement maintenance and rehabilitation, urban heat island due to transportation infrastructure and its mitigation techniques, machine learning applications in the prediction of pavement distresses, and analysis of pavement overlay.

This proceedings contains the papers presented at the 2004 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2004), held at Wuhan, China, from October 18 to 20, 2004. The goal of the conference was to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their ideas and experiences in network and parallel computing. A total of 338 submissions were received in response to the call for papers. These papers werefrom Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, G- many, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxemburg, Malaysia, N- way, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, UK, and USA. Each submission was sent to at least three reviewers.Each paper was judged according to its originality, inno- tion, readability, and relevance to the expected audience. Based on the reviews received, a total of 69 papers were accepted to be included in the proceedings. Among the 69 papers, 46 were accepted as full papers and were presented at the conference.Wealso accepted23papersasshortpapers;eachofthesepaperswas given an opportunity to have a brief presentation at the conference, followed by discussions in a poster session. Thus, due to the limited scope and time of the conference and the high number of submissions received, only 20% of the total submissions were included in the ?nal progr

The book presents studies related to artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications to process and analyze data and big data to create machines or software that can better understand business behavior, industry activities, and human health. The studies were presented at “The 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Digital Era� (ICABDE 2021), which was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during December 18-19, 2021. The studies are pointing toward the famous slogan in technology “Make everything smarter,� i.e., creating machines that can understand and can communicate with humans, and they must act like humans in different aspects such as vision, communication, thinking, feeling, and acting. “A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human� —Alan Turing

The edited volume includes papers in the fields of fuzzy mathematical analysis and advances in computational mathematics. The fields of fuzzy mathematical analysis and advances in computational mathematics can provide valuable solutions to complex problems. They have been applied in multiple areas such as high dimensional data analysis, medical diagnosis, computer vision, hand-written character recognition, pattern recognition, machine intelligence, weather forecasting, network optimization, VLSI design, etc. The volume covers ongoing research in fuzzy and computational mathematical analysis and brings forward its recent applications to important real-world problems in various fields. The book includes selected high-quality papers from the International Conference on Fuzzy Mathematical Analysis and Advances in Computational Mathematics (FMAACM 2020).

The book presents studies related to artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications to process and analyze data and big data to create machines or software that can better understand business behavior, industry activities, and human health. The studies were presented at "The 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Digital Era" (ICABDE 2021), which was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during December 18-19, 2021. The studies are pointing toward the famous slogan in technology "Make everything smarter," i.e., creating machines that can understand and can communicate with humans, and they must act like humans in different aspects such as vision, communication, thinking, feeling, and acting. "A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human" -Alan Turing

The edited volume includes papers in the fields of fuzzy mathematical analysis and advances in computational mathematics. The fields of fuzzy mathematical analysis and advances in computational mathematics can provide valuable solutions to complex problems. They have been applied in multiple areas such as high dimensional data analysis, medical diagnosis, computer vision, hand-written character recognition, pattern recognition, machine intelligence, weather forecasting, network optimization, VLSI design, etc. The volume covers ongoing research in fuzzy and computational mathematical analysis and brings forward its recent applications to important real-world problems in various fields. The book includes selected high-quality papers from the International Conference on Fuzzy Mathematical Analysis and Advances in Computational Mathematics (FMAACM 2020).

In the current scenario of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation, experts are facing many challenges due to huge amounts of data, tiny pieces of evidence in the chaotic and complex environment, traditional laboratory structures and sometimes insufficient knowledge which may lead to failure of investigation or miscarriage of justice. Artificial Intelligence and imaging technologies are the promising solutions to address these challenges with case based reasoning for errorless, objective and reproducible results in various fields of forensics. This book will not only provide a platform for researchers to present state of the art technologies, but will be a reference for law enforcement to use for crime investigation along with researchers in the field .

Within modern forensic science and criminal investigation, experts face several challenges including managing huge amounts of data, handling miniscule pieces of evidence in a chaotic and complex environment, navigating traditional laboratory structures, and, sometimes, dealing with insufficient knowledge. These challenges must be overcome to avoid failure in investigation or miscarriage of justice. Technologies to Advance Automation in Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation provides a platform for researchers to present state-of-the-art technologies within forensic science and criminal investigation. Covering topics such as financial fraud, machine learning, and source camera identification, this book is an essential reference for criminal investigators, justice departments, law enforcement, legislators, computer scientists, automation professionals, researchers, academicians, and students and educators in higher education.

Selected papers from the proceedings of the Geo-Hubei 2014 International Conference on Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, held in Yichang, Hubei, China, July 20-22, 2014. Sponsored by the China Three Gorges University, the Committee on Sustainability of ASCE, and the Geo-Institute of ASCE. These 12 Geotechnical Special Publications contain 193 peer-reviewed papers on efficient and sustainable practices in geotechnical and transportation engineering. The collection contains the following GSPs: GSP 244, Application of Nanotechnology in Pavements, Geological Disasters, and Foundation Settlement Control Technology. Edited by Dharamveer Singh, Lubinda F. Walubita, Jeongho Oh, and Kun Li GSP 245, Innovative and Sustainable Use of Geomaterials and Geosystems. Edited by Jason Y. Wu, Sao-Jeng Chao, Kaoshan Dai, and Shu-Rong Yang GSP 246, Design, Analysis, and Asphalt Material Characterization for Road and Airfield Pavements. Edited by Jeffrey L. Lee, Zahid Hossain, and Xiaodi Hu GSP 247, Analysis, Design, and Construction of Tunnels and Underground Structure. Edited by Jinyuan Liu, Shong-Loong Chen, and Junsheng Yang GSP 248, Characterization, Modeling, and Evaluation of Geotechnical Engineering Systems. Edited by Louis Ge, James C. Ni, Antonio Gomes Correia, and Mingzhou Bai GSP 249, Recent Developments in Evaluation of Pavements and Paving Materials. Edited by Rafiqul A. Tarefder, Jiong Hu, Musharraf Zaman, and Dar-Hao Chen GSP 250, Advances in Transportation Geotechnics and Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure. Edited by Rifat Bulut and Sung-Chi Hsu GSP 251, Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Bridges. Edited by Sarah Skorpen and Albert Y. Chen GSP 252, Earthwork Project Management, Slope Stability Analysis, and Wave-Based Testing Techniques. Edited by Shen-En Chen, Dave Ta-The Chang GSP 253, Recent Advances in Material, Analysis, Monitoring, and Evaluation in Foundation and Bridge Engineering. Edited by Wen-Cheng Liao, Jia-Ruey Chang, and Guodong Zhang GSP 254, Pavement Performance, Monitoring, Modeling, and Management. Edited by Wynand JvdM Steyn, Xianhua Chen, and BooHyun ""Boo"" Nam GSP 255, Advanced Characterization of Asphalt and Concrete Materials. Edited by Yusuf Mehta, Rongbin Han, and Mansour Soliamanian. These papers will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners involved in geotechnical engineering for transportation infrastructure.

The objective of this project is to investigate the data quality measures and how they are applied to travel time prediction. This project showcases a short term travel time prediction method that takes into account the data needs of the real time

Selected proceedings papers from the 2011 GeoHunan International Conference, held in Hunan, China, June 9-11, 2011. Hosted by Changsha University of Science and Technology; Zhangjiajie-Huayuan Expressway. Cosponsored by Central South University, China; Colombian Geotechnical Society, Colombia; Guangxi Planning, Survey, and Design Institute, China; Guangxi Expressway, China; Hohai University, China; Hunan Highway Association, China; Hunan University, China; Deep Foundation Institute, USA; Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, USA; Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, USA; International Society for Asphalt Pavements, USA; International Grooving and Grinding Association, USA; Korea Institute of Construction Technology, Korea; North American Chinese Geotechnical Engineers Association, USA; Texas Transportation Institute, USA; Tongji University, China; Transportation Research Board, USA; College of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, USA; Western Transportation Construction of China, China. These 12 Geotechnical Special Publications contain 361 papers on geotechnical engineering for transportation infrastructure that strike a balance between fundamental theories and field applications.

The results of computational model simulations allow researchers and clinicians to make predictions about what will happen in the biological systems that are being studied in response to changing conditions for a disease or disorder. With a well-developed computational model, researchers and clinicians can better understand the cause of a disease or a disorder and predict treatment results. Computational Models for Biomedical Reasoning and Problem Solving is a critical scholarly publication that provides insightful strategies to developing computational models that allow for the better understanding and treatment of various diseases and disorders. Featuring topics such as biomedicine, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, this book is ideal for practitioners, clinicians, researchers, psychologists, and engineers.