Yong Li

Opportunistic networks forms one of the two major categories of multi-hop ad hoc networks, which are widely used in many scenarios. Applications on opportunistic networks have been on mobile network, space networks, online social networks, and underwater networks, etc. This book introduces opportunistic networking by combining fundamental mathematical models, system architecture/protocols, and practical applications. The book summarizes the main outcomes and investigation of opportunistic networks and provides the overview picture and system training for newcomers to this promising area.

This book conducts a comparative study between Confucian political philosophy and contemporary political philosophy in the analytic tradition.The author demonstrates the relevance of Confucianism to contemporary discussions on important political ideals, such as equality, democracy, human rights, perfectionism, and global justice. He also introduces individual Confucian thinkers, including both historical figures like Kongzi, Mengzi, and Xunzi, and contemporary thinkers such as Kang Youwei and Mou Zongsan. By arguing whether certain Confucian ideals can broaden current debates in political philosophy, the book moves the discussion further.The book will appeal to graduate students and scholars studying ethics, political philosophy, and Chinese philosophy.

This book intends to report the new results of the microgrid in stability analysis, flexible control and optimal operation. The oscillatory stability issue of DC microgrid is explored and further solved. Flexible and stable voltage & frequency control of microgrid is put forward considering the distributed generations or distributed energy storages. The optimal operation of multi-energy is researched in view of economic efficiency and low-carbon development. The results of this book are original from authors who carry out the related research together for a long time, which is a comprehensive summary for authors’ latest research results. The book is likely to be of interest to university researchers, electrical engineers and graduate students in power systems, power electronics, renewable energy and microgrid.

Situated within the framework of Confucian family-oriented ethics, this book explores the issue of familial partiality and specifically discusses whether it is morally praiseworthy to love one’s family partially. In reviewing the tension between familial partiality and egalitarian impartiality from different perspectives while also drawing on binary metrics to understand the issue – that is, the weak and strong sense of familial partiality in Confucian moral theory – the author carefully discusses the efficacy of three major arguments to justify moral partiality. It is concluded that the tree argument fails to justify moral partiality in Confucianism, the evolutionary argument only justifies moral partiality in the weak sense that we should devote more resources to our family, and the care argument fails to justify moral partiality in the strong sense that family takes priority in any case even at the expense of the principle of justice. Seeking to address the quandary, the author advances an alternative argument based on Thomas Aquinas’ theory of love to interpret Confucian view of partial relationships, holding that partial treatment is assumed in partial relationships. The title will appeal to scholars and students interested in Confucianism, Chinese philosophy, moral philosophy, and comparative philosophy.

This book provides the systematic knowledge of a novel process of servo scanning 3D micro-electro-discharge machining (SS-3D micro-EDM), covering principles, methods, technologies, and optimization for machining 3D microstructures of conductive materials. The content emphasizes the systematic knowledge as well as the frontier research progress of SS-3D micro-EDM, allowing it to be used as a reference handbook for planning the whole machining process of 3D microstructures, for designing machining systems or machine tools, and even for understanding the ideas of innovative processes. The processes and the machine tools of SS-3D micro-EDM have promising applications in multi-fields for machining micro-devices or microstructures made of melt and metal alloy materials. The included methods and technologies are verified by testing and machining experiments. Thus, this book presents many machining examples, including the experimental parameters, conditions, and systems. These help the readers understand the concepts, theories, and methods easily and provide practical operation guidance for engineering applications in industrial machining processes and machine tools.

This book intends to report the new results of the microgrid in stability analysis, flexible control and optimal operation. The oscillatory stability issue of DC microgrid is explored and further solved. Flexible and stable voltage & frequency control of microgrid is put forward considering the distributed generations or distributed energy storages. The optimal operation of multi-energy is researched in view of economic efficiency and low-carbon development. The results of this book are original from authors who carry out the related research together for a long time, which is a comprehensive summary for authors’ latest research results. The book is likely to be of interest to university researchers, electrical engineers and graduate students in power systems, power electronics, renewable energy and microgrid.

Situated within the framework of Confucian family-oriented ethics, this book explores the issue of familial partiality and specifically discusses whether it is morally praiseworthy to love one’s family partially. In reviewing the tension between familial partiality and egalitarian impartiality from different perspectives while also drawing on binary metrics to understand the issue – that is, the weak and strong sense of familial partiality in Confucian moral theory – the author carefully discusses the efficacy of three major arguments to justify moral partiality. It is concluded that the tree argument fails to justify moral partiality in Confucianism, the evolutionary argument only justifies moral partiality in the weak sense that we should devote more resources to our family, and the care argument fails to justify moral partiality in the strong sense that family takes priority in any case even at the expense of the principle of justice. Seeking to address the quandary, the author advances an alternative argument based on Thomas Aquinas’ theory of love to interpret Confucian view of partial relationships, holding that partial treatment is assumed in partial relationships. The title will appeal to scholars and students interested in Confucianism, Chinese philosophy, moral philosophy, and comparative philosophy.

This book provides the systematic knowledge of a novel process of servo scanning 3D micro-electro-discharge machining (SS-3D micro-EDM), covering principles, methods, technologies, and optimization for machining 3D microstructures of conductive materials. The content emphasizes the systematic knowledge as well as the frontier research progress of SS-3D micro-EDM, allowing it to be used as a reference handbook for planning the whole machining process of 3D microstructures, for designing machining systems or machine tools, and even for understanding the ideas of innovative processes. The processes and the machine tools of SS-3D micro-EDM have promising applications in multi-fields for machining micro-devices or microstructures made of melt and metal alloy materials. The included methods and technologies are verified by testing and machining experiments. Thus, this book presents many machining examples, including the experimental parameters, conditions, and systems. These help the readers understand the concepts, theories, and methods easily and provide practical operation guidance for engineering applications in industrial machining processes and machine tools.

This book discusses recent advances in cyber-physical power systems (CPPS) in the modeling, analysis and applications of smart grid. It introduces a series of models, such as an analysis of interaction between the power grid and the communication network, differential protection in smart distribution systems, data flow for VLAN-based communication in substations, a co-simulation model for investigating the impacts of cyber-contingency and distributed control systems as well as the analytical techniques used in different parts of cyber physical energy systems. It also discusses methods of cyber-attack on power systems, particularly false data injection. The results presented are a comprehensive summary of the authors’ original research conducted over a period of 5 years. The book is of interest to university researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in power and energy systems.

This book discusses recent advances in cyber-physical power systems (CPPS) in the modeling, analysis and applications of smart grid. It introduces a series of models, such as an analysis of interaction between the power grid and the communication network, differential protection in smart distribution systems, data flow for VLAN-based communication in substations, a co-simulation model for investigating the impacts of cyber-contingency and distributed control systems as well as the analytical techniques used in different parts of cyber physical energy systems. It also discusses methods of cyber-attack on power systems, particularly false data injection. The results presented are a comprehensive summary of the authors’ original research conducted over a period of 5 years. The book is of interest to university researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in power and energy systems.

This book reports on the latest findings in the application of the wide area measurement systems (WAMS) in the analysis and control of power systems. The book collects new research ideas and achievements including a delay-dependent robust design method, a wide area robust coordination strategy, a hybrid assessment and choice method for wide area signals, a free-weighting matrices method and its application, as well as the online identification methods for low-frequency oscillations. The main original research results of this book are a comprehensive summary of the authors’ latest six-year study. The book will be of interest to academic researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in power systems who wish to learn the core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications of the WAMS.

This book reports on the latest findings in the application of the wide area measurement systems (WAMS) in the analysis and control of power systems. The book collects new research ideas and achievements including a delay-dependent robust design method, a wide area robust coordination strategy, a hybrid assessment and choice method for wide area signals, a free-weighting matrices method and its application, as well as the online identification methods for low-frequency oscillations. The main original research results of this book are a comprehensive summary of the authors’ latest six-year study. The book will be of interest to academic researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in power systems who wish to learn the core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications of the WAMS.