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Social Memory and State Formation in Early China

By: Min Li

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Social Memory and State Formation in Early China

By: Min Li

In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic through the Zhou period. Using a wide range of historical and archaeological data, he explains the development of ritual authority and particular concepts of kingship over time in relation to social memory. His volume weaves together the major benchmarks in the emergence of the classical tradition, particularly how legacies of prehistoric interregional interactions, state formation, urban florescence and collapse during the late third and the second millenniums BCE laid the critical foundation for the Sandai notion of history among Zhou elite. Moreover, the literary-historical accounts of the legendary Xia Dynasty in early China reveal a cultural construction involving social memories of the past and subsequent political elaborations in various phases of history. This volume enables a new understanding on the long-term processes that enabled a classical civilization in China to take shape.

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Cambridge University Press

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110859154X

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Governing Death, Making Persons

The New Chinese Way of Death

By: Huwy-min Lucia Liu

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Governing Death, Making Persons

The New Chinese Way of Death

By: Huwy-min Lucia Liu

Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China have affected the governance of persons. The Chinese Communist Party has sought to channel the funeral industry and death rituals into vehicles for reshaping people into "modern" citizens and subjects. Since the Reform and Opening period and the marketization of state funeral parlors, the Party has promoted personalized funerals in the hope of promoting a market-oriented and individualistic ethos. However, things have not gone as planned. Huwy-min Lucia Liu writes about the funerals she witnessed and the life stories of two kinds of funeral workers: state workers who are quasi-government officials and semilegal private funeral brokers. She shows that end-of-life commemoration in urban China today is characterized by the resilience of social conventions and not a shift toward market economy individualization. Rather than seeing a rise of individualism and the decline of a socialist self, Liu sees the durability of socialist, religious, communal, and relational ideas of self, woven together through creative ritual framings in spite of their contradictions.

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Cornell University Press

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1501767232

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9781501767234

Control and Filtering of Fuzzy Systems Under Communication Channels

By: Xiao-Heng Chang,Jun Xiong,Zhi-Min Li,Bo Wu

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Control and Filtering of Fuzzy Systems Under Communication Channels

By: Xiao-Heng Chang,Jun Xiong,Zhi-Min Li,Bo Wu

This book systematically studies the feedback control and filtering problems for nonlinear plants with limited communication channels based on T-S fuzzy models. By fully considering different network-induced phenomena, such as signal quantizations, time-delays, data packet dropouts, communication protocols, cyber attacks, and so on, some significant strategies are provided for various performance analysis and different controller/filter synthesis of fuzzy systems. The event-triggered mechanism is also mentioned to save the communication resource. Moreover, some results are extended to the fault detection and fault-tolerant control. The book provides some new methodologies in analysis and synthesis of fuzzy systems under communication channels, and can serve as a valuable reference material for researchers wishing to explore the area of control and filtering of fuzzy systems and networked systems.

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Springer Nature

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9819943469

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9789819943463

The Spiral Road

Change In A Chinese Village Through The Eyes Of A Communist Party Leader

By: Huang Shu-min,Shu-Min Huang

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The Spiral Road

Change In A Chinese Village Through The Eyes Of A Communist Party Leader

By: Huang Shu-min,Shu-Min Huang

The leading Party cadre of Lin Village in Southeast China describes in this book forty years of turbulent events that affected individuals and families in the village: the downfall of the landlords during the Land Reform, the rise of poor peasants to political power, the political fanaticism of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, and recent efforts to restore rational, pragmatic policies in China's countryside.The magnitude of change in Lin Village since 1949 has been considerable. Most villagers have benefited from tangible improvements in agriculture, education, and medicine, and they have developed a sense of political participation and integration into the national political arena. Significantly, while these dynamic changes have been taking place, the observance of cultural tradition has persisted. Attempts made by the government to change "feudalistic" beliefs and practices have yet to make any lasting impression on village life.More than an account of one village, this book documents for readers the cataclysmic changes of China's entire post-liberation era, detailing their effects in a personalized style. An American anthropologist of Chinese descent, Huang Shu-min employs participant-observation and personal interviews to shape this unique view of rural China today and to delineate some of the misconceptions held by Western academics.

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Routledge

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1000305996

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9781000305999

Revolutionary Stagecraft

Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China

By: Tarryn Li-Min Chun

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Revolutionary Stagecraft

Theater, Technology, and Politics in Modern China

By: Tarryn Li-Min Chun

Revolutionary Stagecraft draws on a rich corpus of literary, historical, and technical materials to reveal a deep entanglement among technological modernization, political agendas, and the performing arts in modern China. This unique approach to Chinese theater history combines a close look at plays themselves, performance practices, technical theater details, and behind-the-scenes debates over “how to” make theater amid the political upheavals of China’s 20th century. The book begins at a pivotal moment in the 1920s—when Chinese theater artists began to import, use, and write about modern stage equipment—and ends in the 1980s when China's scientific and technological boom began. By examining iconic plays and performances from the perspective of the stage technologies involved, Tarryn Li-Min Chun provides a fresh perspective on their composition and staging. The chapters include stories on the challenges of creating imitation neon, rigging up a makeshift revolving stage, and representing a nuclear bomb detonating onstage. In thinking about theater through technicity, the author mines well-studied materials such as dramatic texts and performance reviews for hidden technical details and brings to light a number of previously untapped sources such as technical journals and manuals; set design renderings, lighting plots, and prop schematics; and stage technology how-to guides for amateur thespians. This approach focuses on material stage technologies, situating these objects equally in relation to their technical potential, their human use, and the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that influence them. In each of its case studies, Revolutionary Stagecraft reveals the complex and at times surprising ways in which Chinese theater artists and technicians of the 20th century envisioned and enacted their own revolutions through the materiality of the theater apparatus.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472903969

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9780472903962

MISTRESS FOR A WEEKEND

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Susan Napier,Min Kyuka

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MISTRESS FOR A WEEKEND

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Susan Napier,Min Kyuka

“Give back what you stole from me!” Nora is in trouble. She meets the rich and famous businessman Blake MacLeod at a charity fund-raiser. Living up to his reputation as a playboy, he invites her to his penthouse suite for the night, but Nora loses her nerve and runs away while he’s in the shower. The next morning, he comes to her apartment and accuses her of stealing something important from him. Before she finds out what she’s supposedly stolen, he whisks her away to his summehouse in the middle of nowhere to keep watch over her…

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Harlequin / SB Creative

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4596380198

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Interference and Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

By: Jiandong Li,Min Sheng,Xijun Wang

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Interference and Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

By: Jiandong Li,Min Sheng,Xijun Wang

This authoritative resource offers a comprehensive overview of heterogeneous wireless networks, small cells, and device-to-device (D2D) communications. The book provides insight into network modeling and performance analysis of heterogeneous wireless networks. Interference management framework and design issues are covered as well as details about resource mobility, channel models, and typical and statistical interference modeling. This resource explains leveraging resource heterogeneity in interference mitigation and presents the challenges and feasible solutions for concurrent transmission. Moreover, complete coverage of interference alignment in MIMO heterogeneous networks for both downlink and uplink is presented. This book provides performance results for an ideal partially connected interference network as well as a practical heterogeneous network. Readers find practical guidance for LTE and LTE-Advanced as well as 5G in this resource. New techniques and designs for heterogeneous wireless networks are included.

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Artech House

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1630815098

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9781630815097

Chinese Leadership Wisdom from the Book of Change

By: Mun Kin Chok,Jianshu Min

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Chinese Leadership Wisdom from the Book of Change

By: Mun Kin Chok,Jianshu Min

The sixty-four hexagrams and each of their six possible "changing lines" are analyzed in a clear systematic manner.

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Chinese University Press

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9629962934

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9789629962937

Tencent

The Political Economy of China’s Surging Internet Giant

By: Min Tang

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Tencent

The Political Economy of China’s Surging Internet Giant

By: Min Tang

In this book, author Min Tang examines the political economy of the China-based leading global Internet giant, Tencent. Tracing the historical context and shaping forces, the book illuminates Tencent’s emergence as a joint creation of the Chinese state and transnational financial capital. Tencent reveals interweaving axes of power on different levels, particularly interactions between the global digital industry and contemporary China. The expansion strategies Tencent has employed—horizontal and vertical integration, diversification and transnationalization—speak to the intrinsic trends of capitalist reproduction and the consistent features of the political economy of communications. The book also pinpoints two emerging and entangling trends— transnationalization and financialization—as unfolding trajectories of the global political economy. Understanding Tencent’s dynamics of growth helps to clarify the complex nature of China’s contemporary transformation and the multifaceted characteristics of its increasingly globalized Internet industry. This short and highly topical research volume is perfect for students and scholars of of global media, political economy, and Chinese business, media and communication, and society.

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Routledge

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0429514913

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9780429514913

Differential Privacy

From Theory to Practice

By: Ninghui Li,Min Lyu,Dong Su,Weining Yang

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Differential Privacy

From Theory to Practice

By: Ninghui Li,Min Lyu,Dong Su,Weining Yang

Over the last decade, differential privacy (DP) has emerged as the de facto standard privacy notion for research in privacy-preserving data analysis and publishing. The DP notion offers strong privacy guarantee and has been applied to many data analysis tasks. This Synthesis Lecture is the first of two volumes on differential privacy. This lecture differs from the existing books and surveys on differential privacy in that we take an approach balancing theory and practice. We focus on empirical accuracy performances of algorithms rather than asymptotic accuracy guarantees. At the same time, we try to explain why these algorithms have those empirical accuracy performances. We also take a balanced approach regarding the semantic meanings of differential privacy, explaining both its strong guarantees and its limitations. We start by inspecting the definition and basic properties of DP, and the main primitives for achieving DP. Then, we give a detailed discussion on the the semantic privacy guarantee provided by DP and the caveats when applying DP. Next, we review the state of the art mechanisms for publishing histograms for low-dimensional datasets, mechanisms for conducting machine learning tasks such as classification, regression, and clustering, and mechanisms for publishing information to answer marginal queries for high-dimensional datasets. Finally, we explain the sparse vector technique, including the many errors that have been made in the literature using it. The planned Volume 2 will cover usage of DP in other settings, including high-dimensional datasets, graph datasets, local setting, location privacy, and so on. We will also discuss various relaxations of DP.

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Springer Nature

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3031023501

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9783031023507

传承中文 Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners

Stories about Us

By: Yan Liu,Jingjing Ji,Grace Wu,Min-Min Liang

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传承中文 Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners

Stories about Us

By: Yan Liu,Jingjing Ji,Grace Wu,Min-Min Liang

Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners aims to serve as a stepping-stone for Chinese heritage language learners’ future Chinese learning, inspiring them to reflect on their identities, learn Chinese American history, and embrace their cultural heritage. The book starts with talking about individuals and families and then expands to the Chinese and Asian American communities in the U.S. and eventually to the entire American society, all from the unique perspective of Chinese American students. Taking a macro approach that builds learners’ literacy skills on their initial abilities in speaking and listening, each lesson starts with listening and speaking activities and then moves to reading and writing. The content complexity and language difficulty are balanced to present rich content that matches students’ critical thinking abilities in a language appropriate for their literacy level. Lively and humorous language makes the book a joy to read. Each lesson has a conversation and an essay to expose students to informal and formal registers. Moreover, authentic tasks are designed to facilitate students’ language output, following the three modes of communication promoted by the American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. This theme-based Chinese textbook is written for high school and college-level Chinese heritage language learners.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000860345

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9781000860344

The Chemistry of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction

By: Min Shi

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The Chemistry of the Morita-Baylis-Hillman Reaction

By: Min Shi

Aimed at graduate students and experienced chemists, in both academic and industrial laboratories, this book covers the Morita-Baylis-Hillman-type reactions.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1849731292

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Fixed Point Theory and Applications

By: Yeol Je Cho,Jong Kyu Kim,Shin Min Kang

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Fixed Point Theory and Applications

By: Yeol Je Cho,Jong Kyu Kim,Shin Min Kang

The aim of this volume is to introduce recent new topics in the areas of fixed point theory, variational inequality and complementarity problem theory, non-linear ergodic theory difference, differential and integral equations, control and optimisation theory, dynamic system theory, inequality theory, stochastic analysis and probability theory, and their applications.

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Nova Publishers

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1590332164

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9781590332160

Red Azalea

A Memoir

By: Anchee Min

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Red Azalea

A Memoir

By: Anchee Min

A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, Min was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman. Miraculously selected for the film version of one of Madame Mao’s political operas, Min’s life changed overnight. Then Chairman Mao suddenly died, taking with him an entire world. This national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is exceptional for its candor, its poignancy, its courage, and for its prose which Newsweek calls "as delicate and evocative as a traditional Chinese brush painting.

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Anchor

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030778102X

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9780307781024

From Sea to Sea

A Personal Journey

By: Min-Hwa Cheng Kennard

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From Sea to Sea

A Personal Journey

By: Min-Hwa Cheng Kennard

Min-Hwa Cheng Kennard has experienced a vibrant life while living and working in several countries. In a unique memoir, she shares insight into her journey that intersected with an extraordinary period of modern human history. Within twenty personal essays, she discloses how she and her family survived the upheavals of twentieth century China to later emigrate to Taiwan and the United States. Her reflections include a brief history of her family, her experiences losing a parent at a tender age, her professional triumphs in foreign lands, the unexpected losses of a child and two husbands, and much more. As Min-Hwa leads others through her poignant story about love and loss and resilience and hope, she offers intriguing insights into her cultural heritage and how she learned to navigate through conflicts between different values. From Sea to Sea is a collection of personal essays that reveal one woman’s account of the upheavals of twentieth century China, her emigration to Taiwan and the United States, and her life as she embraced new experiences.

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Archway Publishing

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1665714603

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9781665714600

Physical Activity Epidemiology

By: Rod K. Dishman,Gregory Heath,Michael D. Schmidt,I-Min Lee

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Physical Activity Epidemiology

By: Rod K. Dishman,Gregory Heath,Michael D. Schmidt,I-Min Lee

Physical Activity Epidemiology, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of population-level studies on the effects of physical activity on disease. The text summarizes the current knowledge, details the methods used to obtain the findings, and considers the implications for public health

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Human Kinetics

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149259301X

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The Poetics of Difference and Displacement

Twentieth-Century Chinese-Western Intercultural Theatre

By: Min Tian

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The Poetics of Difference and Displacement

Twentieth-Century Chinese-Western Intercultural Theatre

By: Min Tian

Intercultural theater is a prominent phenomena of twentieth-century international theater. This books views intercultural theatre as a process of displacement and re-placement of various cultural and theatrical forces, a process which the author describes as 'the poetics of displacement'.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622099076

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9789622099074

Scholar's Path, A: An Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poems And Prose Of Chen Qing Shan - A Pioneer Writer Of Malayan-singapore Literature

By: Peter Min-liang Chen,Michael Min-hwa Tan,Chiu Ming Chan

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Scholar's Path, A: An Anthology Of Classical Chinese Poems And Prose Of Chen Qing Shan - A Pioneer Writer Of Malayan-singapore Literature

By: Peter Min-liang Chen,Michael Min-hwa Tan,Chiu Ming Chan

English translation and appreciation by Peter Chen and Michael Tan Reviewed by Chan Chiu MingAn original English translation from the Chinese text:A companion edition of the book in Chinese is available — the original classical text translated into modern Chinese and profusely annotated by Associate Professor Dr Chan Chiu Ming of National Institute of Education, Singapore.

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World Scientific

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9814464392

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9789814464390

Bad Girl in Town

By: Min Kwon,Buzz Dixon

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Bad Girl in Town

By: Min Kwon,Buzz Dixon

Derek, Kimberly, and the rest of the Prayer Club try to break through the tough exterior of a new classmate, Serenity Harper.

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1593109415

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Large-Scale Group Decision-Making

State-to-the-Art Clustering and Consensus Paths

By: Su-Min Yu,Zhi-Jiao Du

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Large-Scale Group Decision-Making

State-to-the-Art Clustering and Consensus Paths

By: Su-Min Yu,Zhi-Jiao Du

This book explores clustering operations in the context of social networks and consensus-reaching paths that take into account non-cooperative behaviors. This book focuses on the two key issues in large-scale group decision-making: clustering and consensus building. Clustering aims to reduce the dimension of a large group. Consensus reaching requires that the divergent individual opinions of the decision makers converge to the group opinion. This book emphasizes the similarity of opinions and social relationships as important measurement attributes of clustering, which makes it different from traditional clustering methods with single attribute to divide the original large group without requiring a combination of the above two attributes. The proposed consensus models focus on the treatment of non-cooperative behaviors in the consensus-reaching process and explores the influence of trust loss on the consensus-reaching process.The logic behind is as follows: firstly, a clustering algorithm is adopted to reduce the dimension of decision-makers, and then, based on the clusters’ opinions obtained, a consensus-reaching process is carried out to obtain a decision result acceptable to the majority of decision-makers. Graduates and researchers in the fields of management science, computer science, information management, engineering technology, etc., who are interested in large-scale group decision-making and consensus building are potential audience of this book. It helps readers to have a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of clustering analysis and consensus building in large-scale group decision-making.

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Springer Nature

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9811678898

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9789811678899

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