Yu Zheng – författare

An authoritative treatment of urban computing, offering an overview of the field, fundamental techniques, advanced models, and novel applications.

Urban computing brings powerful computational techniques to bear on such urban challenges as pollution, energy consumption, and traffic congestion. Using today''s large-scale computing infrastructure and data gathered from sensing technologies, urban computing combines computer science with urban planning, transportation, environmental science, sociology, and other areas of urban studies, tackling specific problems with concrete methodologies in a data-centric computing framework. This authoritative treatment of urban computing offers an overview of the field, fundamental techniques, advanced models, and novel applications.

Each chapter acts as a tutorial that introduces readers to an important aspect of urban computing, with references to relevant research. The book outlines key concepts, sources of data, and typical applications; describes four paradigms of urban sensing in sensor-centric and human-centric categories; introduces data management for spatial and spatio-temporal data, from basic indexing and retrieval algorithms to cloud computing platforms; and covers beginning and advanced topics in mining knowledge from urban big data, beginning with fundamental data mining algorithms and progressing to advanced machine learning techniques. Urban Computing provides students, researchers, and application developers with an essential handbook to an evolving interdisciplinary field.

Yu Zheng challenges the idea that democracy is the prerequisite for developing countries to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and promote economic growth. He examines the relationship between political institutions and FDI through the use of cross-national analysis and case studies of three rapidly growing Asian economies with a focus on the role of microinstitutional “special economic zones” (SEZ).

China’s authoritarian system allows for bold, radical economic reform, but China has attracted FDI largely because of its increasingly credible investment environment as well as its central and local governments’ efforts to overcome constraints on investment. India’s democratic institutions provide more political assurance to foreign investors, but its market became conducive to FDI only when the government adopted more flexible investment policies. Taiwan’s democratic transition shifted its balance of policy credibility and flexibility, which was essential for the nation’s economic takeoff and sustained growth.

Zheng concludes that a more accurate understanding of the relationship between political institutions and FDI comes from careful analysis of institutional arrangements that entail a trade-off between credibility and flexibility of governance.

Spatial trajectories have been bringing the unprecedented wealth to a variety of research communities. A spatial trajectory records the paths of a variety of moving objects, such as people who log their travel routes with GPS trajectories. The field of moving objects related research has become extremely active within the last few years, especially with all major database and data mining conferences and journals.

Computing with Spatial Trajectories introduces the algorithms, technologies, and systems used to process, manage and understand existing spatial trajectories for different applications. This book also presents an overview on both fundamentals and the state-of-the-art research inspired by spatial trajectory data, as well as a special focus on trajectory pattern mining, spatio-temporal data mining and location-based social networks. Each chapter provides readers with a tutorial-style introduction to one important aspect of location trajectory computing, case studies and many valuable references to other relevant research work.

Computing with Spatial Trajectories is designed as a reference or secondary text book for advanced-level students and researchers mainly focused on computer science and geography. Professionals working on spatial trajectory computing will also find this book very useful.

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 during May 2022 in Chengdu, China.

The 121 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 558 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:

Part I: Data Science and Big Data Technologies, Part II: Foundations; and Part III: Applications.

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 during May 2022 in Chengdu, China.

The 121 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 558 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:

Part I: Data Science and Big Data Technologies, Part II: Foundations; and Part III: Applications.

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 during May 2022 in Chengdu, China.

The 121 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 558 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:

Part I: Data Science and Big Data Technologies, Part II: Foundations; and Part III: Applications.

This book explains the AI algorithms, techniques, and application methods used in manufacturing, and how they contribute to the advancement of industrial intelligence.

Industrial artificial intelligence (IAI) is rapidly evolving alongside the development of smart manufacturing, which cannot be achieved without intelligence at its core. IAI enables intelligent and resilient manufacturing systems, making them fault-tolerant, on-demand, and self-organizing. It also provides on-demand manufacturing services to end users by optimally coordinating distributed manufacturing resources, augmented by AI methodologies.

This book will be of interest to researchers and professionals in the manufacturing industry.

In China werden zunehmend Kooperationsprojekte mit deutschen Hochschulen gefördert. Dies bringt die Notwendigkeit eines deutlichen Ausbaus der fachsprachlichen Hörkompetenzen der Studierenden im Deutschen mit sich - die Hörkompetenzen sind entscheidend für den Studienerfolg. Dieses Buch skizziert die Anlage, Durchführung und Ergebnisse einer entsprechenden empirischen Untersuchung: Es galt zu erforschen, wie sich die fachsprachliche Hörkompetenz im Deutschen bei chinesischen Studierenden entwickelt hat und welche Verstehensschwierigkeiten sie haben. Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse können als Basis für jene Studienbausteine dienen, die der Entwicklung des fachsprachlichen Hörverstehens zugrunde liegen. Ziel ist das Meistern der fachsprachlichen Hürde innerhalb der rezeptiven Fertigkeit und ein Steigern der Studierfähigkeit.