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This book presents the fundamentals of evolutionary game theory and applies them to the analysis of epidemics, which is of paramount importance in the aftermath of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. The primary objective of this monograph is to deliver a powerful tool to model and analyze the spread of an infectious disease during a pandemic as well as the human decision dynamics. The book employs a variant of the ¿vaccination game,¿ in which a mathematical epidemiological model dovetails with evolutionary game theory. From a social physics standpoint, this book introduces an extended concept of the vaccination game starting from the fundamental issues and touching on the newest practical applications.The book first outlines the fundamental basis of evolutionary game theory, in which a two-player and two-strategy game, the so-called 2 × 2 game, and a multi-player game are concisely introduced, and the important issue of how social dilemmas are quantified is highlighted.Subsequently, the book discusses various recent applications of the extended concept of the vaccination game so as to quantitatively evaluate provisions other than vaccination, including practical intermediate protective measures such as mask-wearing, efficiency of quarantine compared with that of isolation policies for suppressing epidemics, efficiency of preemptive versus late vaccination, and optimal subsidy policies for vaccination.

This book presents up-to-date concepts and design methods relating to space dynamics and control, including spacecraft attitude control, orbit control, and guidance, navigation, and control (GNC), summarizing the research advances in control theory and methods and engineering practice from Beijing Institute of Control Engineering over the years.

It includes several implementation paradigms such as design and path planning of wireless network, security mechanism and implementation for dynamic as well as static nodes, learning method of cloud computing, data exploration and management, data analysis and optimization, decision taking in conflicting environment, etc.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the First International Conference on Industrial IoT, Big Data and Supply Chain (IIoTBDSC), held as an online conference due to COVID-19 (initially to be held in Macao, Special Administration Region (SAR) of China), during September 15-17, 2020.

This book introduces readers to recent advancements in financial technologies.

This book explains the pharmacological relationships between the various systems in the human body.

This book extends the work from introduction of ubiquitous computing, to the Internet of things to security and to privacy aspects of ubiquitous computing. The uniqueness of this book is the combination of important fields like the Internet of things and ubiquitous computing. It assumes that the readers¿ goal is to achieve a complete understanding of IoT, smart computing, security issues, challenges and possible solutions. It is not oriented towards any specific use cases and security issues; privacy threats in ubiquitous computing problems are discussed across various domains. This book is motivating to address privacy threats in new inventions for a wide range of stakeholders like layman to educated users, villages to metros and national to global levels. This book contains numerous examples, case studies, technical descriptions, scenarios, procedures, algorithms and protocols. The main endeavour of this book is threat analysis and activity modelling of attacks in order to give anactual view of the ubiquitous computing applications. The unique approach will help readers for a better understanding.

This book covers advances in system, control and computing. This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Advances in Systems, Control and Computing (AISCC 2020), held at MNIT Jaipur during February 27¿28, 2020. The first part is advances in systems and it is dedicated to applications of the artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, fuzzy system, autonomous and multi-agent systems, machine learning, other intelligent systems and related areas. In the second part, machine learning and other intelligent algorithms for design of control/control analysis are covered. The last part covers advancements, modifications, improvements and applications of intelligent algorithms.

In this "Tropical Peatland Eco-management" book, eco-management is new terminology as an abbreviation of "ecology-based management for natural capital enhancement". Key concept on this eco-management is derived from previous book: "Tropical Peatland Ecosystem"(Springer, 2015, eds. by M. Osaki and N. Tsuji). Based on this new concept, this book thoroughly examines tropical peatland eco-management for scientists, political decision makers, governmental officials, land managers, students, and NGO/NPOs who are interested in 1) what the impact of peatland on climate change and ecosystem function, 2) how the management of disturbed peatland, and 3) drawing global scale restoration mechanisms of peatland and wetland. In tropical peatland, a large amount of GHGs (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) is emitted due to the unappropriate development and inadequate management of peatland. The peatland ecosystems consist of the carbon¿water complex, which is affected easily by the impact of human and climate change. Throughout much research of tropical peatland, the problems that result from development of tropical peatland are found to stem mainly from a lack of understanding of the complexities of this ecosystem and the fragility of the relationship between peat and forest and also between carbon and water. In past, almost all peatland development and management system have been generally designed on ¿water drainage system¿. On the contrast of old system, an innovated eco- management is, here, proposed as ¿water irrigation system¿, including water cycling and natural capital enhancement. Through this book readers will learn the advanced peatland eco-management, with more practical methods and procedure based on ecosystem knowledge.

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere.

This book addresses waste generation problems from various sectors, including industries, agriculture, and household.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the current evolutionary clustering techniques. It discusses the most highly regarded methods for data clustering. The book provides literature reviews about single objective and multi-objective evolutionary clustering algorithms. In addition, the book provides a comprehensive review of the fitness functions and evaluation measures that are used in most of evolutionary clustering algorithms. Furthermore, it provides a conceptual analysis including definition, validation and quality measures, applications, and implementations for data clustering using classical and modern nature-inspired techniques. It features a range of proven and recent nature-inspired algorithms used to data clustering, including particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, grey wolf optimizer, salp swarm algorithm, multi-verse optimizer, Harris hawks optimization, beta-hill climbing optimization. The book also covers applications of evolutionary data clustering indiverse fields such as image segmentation, medical applications, and pavement infrastructure asset management.

This book describes the present awful state of India's Public Health Care Delivery, its dismal planning and implementation.

This book provides essential insights into methods and practices of ¿Climate-smart Agriculture,¿ which is driven by the principles of climate resilience and smart resource use in agricultural production. Climate-smart agriculture is a key policy instrument for achieving poverty eradication and a hunger-free world, as well as mitigating the effects of climate change. This book discusses in detail climate-smart agricultural technologies and practices that can reduce the vulnerability of agricultural systems, improve the livelihoods of farmers and other stakeholders, and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from crop production and livestock husbandry. The agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector produces roughly 10¿12 gigatons of CO2-equivalent per year; therefore, sustainable practices for agriculture and related land use hold immense potential to mitigate climate change. The potential impacts of climate variability and climate change on agriculture areextensively documented and articulated, especially with regard to global and national environmental agendas that call for innovation, transformation and climate-resilient advances in agriculture. As the book demonstrates, climate-smart agriculture offers an excellent tool for boosting agricultural output to feed the growing global population; for reducing greenhouse gases emissions from agriculture and other land use; and for protecting agricultural production systems from the impending dangers of climate change.

This book focuses on understanding the shoreline dynamics, nearshore processes and sediment transport around Rameswaram Island and the cities of Dhanushkodi and Arichamunai.

This book provides significant information regarding the policies and provisions for early childhood teacher education programs in universities in fourteen different countries.

This book encompasses the macro-factors pertaining to the overall development in logistics technologies and facilities, region-specific policies and plans, industry-wide transformation in transport, manufacturing, commerce, and agriculture in China. Specifically, it describes policies and practices in China's high-quality development of logistics, China's business environment construction in logistics, and progress of port logistics in China. It also highlights the applications and prospects of blockchain technology in China's logistics industry in the year 2019. The expositions on and analyses of these subjects are based on the latest available sources and statistical data. As with the previous volumes, the ultimate aim of this book is to present a timely portrait of the rapid growth of Chinäs logistics market and the status quo of its logistics industry. In so doing, the book offers an in-depth analysis of critical issues involved in the ongoing dynamic and multi-faceted development and provides a valuable reference resource for interested readers in the academic and professional fields.

This book focuses on the photoelectric nanodevices based on carbon nanostructures, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and related heterojunctions.

Foreword 1, by First Minister of Scotland, UK.Foreword 2, by Vice-Chancellor, University of Glasgow, UK. Preface, by Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada 1.  Managing water resources under climate uncertainties, Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, University of Glasgow, UK. 2.  Water security in the face of climate change, by Peter Joo Hee Ng and Sharon Zheng, PUB: Singapore''s National Water Agency, Singapore. 3.  Water security and climate change: Hydropower reservoir greenhouse gas emissions, Mar├¡a Ubierna and Cristina D├¡ez, International Hydropower Association, London, UK. 4.  Water security under conditions of increased unpredictability: A case study, by Marius Classen, Pretoria, South Africa. 5.  What are the key enablers in pursuing both disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation? Practical lessons from Asian River Basins, by Megumi Muto, Deputy Director, JICA Ogata Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. 6.  Managing risks on Egypt water resources security: climate change and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as challenging aspects, by Mohamed Abdel Aty, Minister of Water Resources, Government of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt.  7.  Designing research to catalyse climate action, by Bruce Currie-Alder, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. 8. Water resilient places-Developing a policy framework for surface water management and Blue-Green Infrastructure, by Barry Greig and D. Faichney, Government of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. 9. Supporting evidence-based water and climate change policy in Scotland through innovation and expert knowledge: The Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW), by Robert C. Ferrier, Rachel C. Helliwell, Helen M. Jones, Nikki H. Dodd, M. Sophie Beier, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland. 10. Assessment of and adaptation measures to the impacts of climate change on water resources in China, by Aifeng Lv and Shaofeng Jia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 11. Using waternomics to develop & avoid systemic shocks to the economy, by Debra Tan, President, China Water Risk, Hong Kong. 12. Consequences of declining resources on water services: The risks if we do not react! by Diane D''Arras, President, International Water Association, London, UK. 13. Resilience Through Systems Thinking for Water Infrastructure, by Cindy Wallis-Lage and Zeynep Kisoglu Erdal, President, Water Business, Black & Veatch, Kansas, USA. ΓÇï