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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2015, held in Houston, TX, USA, in December 2015. The 59 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 submissions. Topics cover... More

[from inside flaps] "This first book in the trilogy, The Three-Body Problem, begins against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, when a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal an... More

From science fiction legend Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Three-Body Problem, comes a vision of the future that reads “like Ursula K Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age.” (NPR).In those days, Earth was a planet in space.In those day... More

In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that... More

Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that... More

From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu comes a short story collection of captivating visions of the future and incredible re-imaginings of the past. <P><P> In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use ... More

A science fiction adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of the Three-Body Trilogy, Cixin Liu's Ball Lightning is the story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences.Wh... More

El desenlace de la magistral trilogía de ciencia ficción con 4 millones de lectores en China, convertida en un best seller de The New York Times y de Spiegel. <P><P>Tras El problema de los tres cuerpos y El bosque oscuro, la tensa espera de la humanidad concluye ahora con un último episodio, ta... More

La esperada continuación de El problema de los tres cuerpos, el mejor libro de ciencia ficción y fantasía de 2016 según El Periódico, y uno de los diez mejores libros de ficción de 2016 según Playground. <P><P>Ahora la Tierra tiene cuatro siglos para defenderse de lo inevitable: la llegada de l... More

La nueva novela del autor chino que arrasa en todo el mundo con El problema de los tres cuerpos: 5.000.000 de lectores. El día en que cumple catorce años, Chen presencia cómo una esfera luminosa entra en su casa y calcina a sus padres. Con el propósito de encontrar algún sentido a esta extraña des... More

Primera antología de relatos del autor chino que ha deslumbrado a cinco millones de lectores con El problema de los tres cuerpos. El sol se está muriendo, y la Tierra, consumida por los últimos suspiros de esta estrella, también desaparecerá. Pero la humanidad, en lugar de abandonar el planeta, co... More

Primera antología de relatos del autor chino que ha deslumbrado a cinco millones de lectores con El problema de los tres cuerpos. El sol se está muriendo, y la Tierra, consumida por los últimos suspiros de esta estrella, también desaparecerá. Pero la humanidad, en lugar de abandonar el planeta, co... More

Llega la edición estuche de la «Trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos», el fenómeno editorial chino que ha conquistado al mundo tras vender cinco millones de ejemplares y lograr prescriptores de la talla de Barack Obama, George R.R. Martin o Mark Zuckeberg. El problema de los tres cuerpos El problema de lo... More

«Un fascinante experimento mental por el autor de El problema de los tres cuerpos.»The Guardian Hace ocho años y a ocho años luz de distancia, murió una estrella. Esta noche, una supernova de alta energía finalmente llegará a la Tierra. El cielo brillará cuando esa nueva estrella florezca y, dentr... More

La nueva novela del autor chino que arrasa en todo el mundo con El problema de los tres cuerpos: 5.000.000 de lectores. El día en que cumple catorce años, Chen presencia cómo una esfera luminosa entra en su casa y calcina a sus padres. Con el propósito de encontrar algún sentido a esta extraña des... More

El Sol está muriendo y la única opción de la humanidad es alejarse de él, sin abandonar la Tierra. «Nunca he visto la noche. Nunca he visto las estrellas. Tampoco he visto la primavera ni el otoño ni el invierno. Nací a finales de la Era de la Frenada, justo cuando la Tierra dejó de girar.» Así em... More

En un día normal y corriente del Cretácico superior, las semillas de la primera y mayor civilización de la Tierra se sembraron en los restos del almuerzo de un tiranosaurio. Por al autor de El problema de los tres cuerpos La inteligencia es un destello fugaz en la larga noche de la historia cósmi... More

Action recognition technology has many real-world applications in human-computer interaction, surveillance, video retrieval, retirement home monitoring, and robotics. The commoditization of depth sensors has also opened up further applications that were not feasible before. This text focuses on fe... More

This book will provide a comprehensive overview on human action analysis with randomized trees. It will cover both the supervised random trees and the unsupervised random trees. When there are sufficient amount of labeled data available, supervised random trees provides a fast method for space-tim... More

This book is a technical publication for students, scholars and engineers in electrical engineering, focusing on the pulse-width-modulation (PWM) technologies in power electronics area. Based on an introduction of basic PWM principles this book analyzes three major challenges for PWM on system perfo... More

As a country in transition, Chinese news discourse has quite distinctive characteristics, and more so given the power of state media in society. With China’s engagement in world affairs and its massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) now in place, Western media coverage of China has dramatically incr... More

With rapid urbanization in developing countries and the emergence of smart systems and integrated intelligent devices, the new generation of infrastructure will be smarter and more efficient. However, due to natural and anthropomorphic hazards, as well as the adverse impact of climate change, civil ... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th China Conference on Information Retrieval, CCIR 2020, held in Xi'an, China, in August 2020.*The 12 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 102 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: search and reco... More

This book provides energy efficiency quantitative analysis and optimal methods for discrete manufacturing systems from the perspective of global optimization. In order to analyze and optimize energy efficiency for discrete manufacturing systems, it uses real-time access to energy consumption informa... More

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2013, held in Singapore, in December 2013. The 27 full papers and 18 poster presentations included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. They are organized... More