This book explores the social and economic impact of the sharing economy- of taxis, apartments, and other goods and services- in China, and how the sharing economy can allow for supply-side economic reform. The sharing economy is in the ascendant in China, and significant achievements have been made in innovation in leasing, travel and other fields. This book predicts that this economic tide, which has affected hundreds of millions of people, will inject a powerful new momentum into China's economic growth, help China's economy achieve "power conversion" and turn the service industry into the "main engine" of economic growth. This book will interest China watchers, economists, and scholars of the technology sector.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2006, held in Beijing, China, in May 2006. The 75 revised full papers presented together with 7 plenary talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 319 submissions. All major areas in computer science, mathematics (especially logic) and the physical sciences particularly with regard to computation and computability theory are addressed.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second Annual International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON '96, held in June 1996 in Hong Kong.
The 44 papers presented in the book in revised version were carefully selected from a total of 82 submissions. They describe state-of-the-art research results from various areas of theoretical computer science, combinatorics related to computing, and experimental analysis of algorithms; computational graph theory, computational geometry, and networking issues are particularly well-presented.

This book explores the social and economic impact of the sharing economy- of taxis, apartments, and other goods and services- in China, and how the sharing economy can allow for supply-side economic reform. The sharing economy is in the ascendant in China, and significant achievements have been made in innovation in leasing, travel and other fields. This book predicts that this economic tide, which has affected hundreds of millions of people, will inject a powerful new momentum into China's economic growth, help China's economy achieve "power conversion" and turn the service industry into the "main engine" of economic growth. This book will interest China watchers, economists, and scholars of the technology sector.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings, presented on the 20th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2019 and on The International Workshop on Web Information Systems in the Era of AI, held in Hong Kong and Macau, China. Due to the problems in Hong Kong, WISE 2019 has been postponed until January 2020. The 7 workshop papers, 5 demo papers and 3 tutorial papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in the following sections: tutorials; demos; the International Workshop on Web Information Systems in the Era of AI.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation, TAMC 2007, held in Shanghai, China in May 2007.

The 67 revised full papers presented together with 2 plenary lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from over 500 submissions. All major areas in computer science, mathematics (especially logic) and the physical sciences particularly with regard to computation and computability theory are addressed. The papers - featuring this crossdisciplinary character - particularly focus on algorithms, complexity and computability theory, giving the conference a special flavor and distinction.

This two-volume set, LNCS 10987 and 10988, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2018, held in Macau, China in July 2018. The 40 full papers presented together with 30 short papers, 6 demonstration papers and 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: Text Analysis, Social Networks, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Knowledge Graphs, Database and Web Applications, Data Streams, Data Mining and Application, Query Processing, Big Data and Blockchain.

This two-volume set, LNCS 10987 and 10988, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2018, held in Macau, China in July 2018. The 40 full papers presented together with 30 short papers, 6 demonstration papers and 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. The papers are organized around the following topics: Text Analysis, Social Networks, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Knowledge Graphs, Database and Web Applications, Data Streams, Data Mining and Application, Query Processing, Big Data and Blockchain.

Complexity theory aims to understand and classify computational problems, especially decision problems, according to their inherent complexity. This book uses new techniques to expand the theory for use with counting problems. The authors present dichotomy classifications for broad classes of counting problems in the realm of P and NP. Classifications are proved for partition functions of spin systems, graph homomorphisms, constraint satisfaction problems, and Holant problems. The book assumes minimal prior knowledge of computational complexity theory, developing proof techniques as needed and gradually increasing the generality and abstraction of the theory. This volume presents the theory on the Boolean domain, and includes a thorough presentation of holographic algorithms, culminating in classifications of computational problems studied in exactly solvable models from statistical mechanics.