Authors:Shan Wang, Katsumi Tanaka, Shuigeng Zhou, Tok Wang Li
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: china, shanghai, ecomo, november, lecture, science, computer, notes, dgov, comoa, application, advanced, modeling, domains, workshops, ecdm, comwim, comogis, conceptual
Number of Pages: 692
Published: 2004-11-23
List price: $112.00
ISBN-10: 3540237224
ISBN-13: 9783540237228

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of six internationl workshops held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2004, in Shanghai, China in November 2004. The 56 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 163 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on geopraphical conceptual modeling; spatial storage, indexing, and data consistency; spatial representation and spatial services; spatial queries and retrieval, Web information integration; Web information mining; conceptual models for Web inform

Authors:Zhou Wang, Al Bovik,
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Keywords: image, amp, multimedia, processing, video, synthesis, quality, assessment, modern, lectures
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1598290223
ISBN-13: 9781598290226

This book is about objective image quality assessment—where the aim is to provide computational models that can automatically predict perceptual image quality. The early years of the 21st century have witnessed a tremendous growth in the use of digital images as a means for representing and communicating information. A considerable percentage of this literature is devoted to methods for improving the appearance of images, or for maintaining the appearance of images that are processed. Nevertheless, the quality of digital images, processed or otherwise, is rarely perfect. Images are subject t

Authors:Xin-Jiu Wang, Qi-Feng Zhou,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: polymers, crystalline, liquid
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2004-06
List price: $86.00
ISBN-10: 9812384103
ISBN-13: 9789812384102

This textbook consists of six chapters. The first chapter highlights the concept of liquid crystals, including chemical structure, phase classification, defect and texture, and continuum theory. It has been carefully written to meet the needs of readers who do not specialize in liquid crystals. The second chapter is related to the theoretical description of liquid crystalline polymers, networks, and gels, which deals with subjects such as the formation of liquid crystallinity in the polymer system, the phase transition and phase diagram, the molecular weight effect, chain conformation, physics

Authors:Liqiu Wang, Xuesheng Zhou, Xiaohao Wei,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: analytical, solutions, models, mathematical, conduction, heat
Number of Pages: 515
Published: 2008-02-13
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 3540740287
ISBN-13: 9783540740285

Many phenomena in social, natural and engineering fields are governed by wave, potential, parabolic heat-conduction, hyperbolic heat-conduction and dual-phase-lagging heat-conduction equations. This monograph examines these equations: their solution structures, methods of finding their solutions under various supplementary conditions, as well as the physical implication and applications of their solutions.

Authors:Lean Yu, Shouyang Wang, Kin Keung Lai, Ligang Zhou
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: intelligence, support, vector, machines, computational, analysis, inspired, credit, risk, bio
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2008-06-05
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3540778020
ISBN-13: 9783540778028

Credit risk analysis is one of the most important topics in the field of financial risk management. Due to recent financial crises and regulatory concern of Basel II, credit risk analysis has been the major focus of financial and banking industry. Especially for some credit-granting institutions such as commercial banks and credit companies, the ability to discriminate good customers from bad ones is crucial. The need for reliable quantitative models that predict defaults accurately is imperative so that the interested parties can take either preventive or corrective action. Hence credit risk

Authors:Qiming Zhou, Qiming Zhou, Brian Lees, Guo-an Tang,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: notes, geoinformation, cartography, lecture, analysis, digital, terrain, advances
Number of Pages: 462
Published: 2008-05-20
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 3540777997
ISBN-13: 9783540777991

Terrain analysis has been an active study field for years and attracted research studies from geographers, surveyors, engineers and computer scientists. With the rapid growth of Geographical Information System (GIS) technology, particularly the establishment of high resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEM) at national level, the challenge is now focused on delivering justifiable socio-economical and environmental benefits. The contributions in this book represent the state of the art of terrain analysis methods and techniques in areas of digital representation, morphological and hydrological

Authors:Irwin King, Jun Wang, Laiwan Chan, DeLiang Wang,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: lecture, iii, part, proceedings, notes, computer, issues, general, science, october, china, 13th, processing, information, international, conference, kong, hong, iconip, neural
Number of Pages: 1227
Published: 2006-11-13
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 3540464840
ISBN-13: 9783540464846

The three volume set LNCS 4232, LNCS 4233, and LNCS 4234 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2006, held in Hong Kong, China in October 2006. The 386 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1175 submissions. The 126 papers of the first volume are organized in topical sections on neurobiological modeling and analysis, cognitive processing, mathematical modeling and analysis, learning algorithms, support vector machines, self-organizing maps, as well as independent component analysis and