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Ocean covers 70.8% of the Earth’s surface, and it plays an important role in supporting all life on Earth. Nonetheless, more than 80% of the ocean’s volume remains unmapped, unobserved and unexplored. In this regard, Underwater Sensor Networks (USNs), which offer ubiquitous computation, efficient communication and reliable control, are emerging as a promising solution to understand and explore the ocean. In order to support the application of USNs, accurate position information from sensor nodes is required to correctly analyze and interpret the data sampled. However, the openness and...

Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of (often online) queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires as a reaction against the norms in discourses surrounding nation-states, linguistics, geopolitics, genders, and sexualities.

Moving beyond...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 4 international workshops held in conjunction with the 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2012, in Kunming, China, in April 2012 (see LNCS 7235). The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation at the following 4 workshops: the 1st workshop on sensor networks and data engineering (SenDe 2012), the 1st international workshop on intelligent data processing (IDP 2012), the 1st international workshop on information extraction and knowledge base building (IEKB 2012), and the 3rd international workshop...