This book introduces the latest advances in modular robotics, and presents a unified geometric framework for modeling, analysis, and design of modular robots, including kinematics, dynamics, calibration, and configuration optimization.

This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways.

This collection represents successful invited submissions from the papers presented at the 8th Annual Conference of Energy Economics and Management held in Beijing, China, 22-24 September 2017. With over 500…

This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous…

Transportation is one of the industrial sectors most impacted by global climate change. Electric vehicles are energy-efficient and often presented as a zero-emission transport mode to achieve longer-term de-carbonization visions…

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2010, held in Hue City, Vietnam, in March 2010.

Suitable for graduate-level researchers in statistics and biology, this book presents a snapshot of current trends in Bayesian phylogenetic research. It emphasizes model selection, reflecting recent interest in accurately estimating…

Bayesian statistics is one of the active research areas in statistics. This book provides the theoretical background behind the most important recent development, Markov chain Monte Carlos methods.