Hong Gao Boeken

Focusing on urbanization in China, the book explores the effects of economic agglomeration on the labor market and industrial growth. It highlights how increased agglomeration can enhance employment opportunities and elevate incomes, while also fostering the expansion of manufacturing and service sectors. The study underscores the significance of facilitating the movement of production factors across regions for balanced development. Additionally, it offers valuable policy insights applicable to other developing nations, promoting a broader understanding of urban development strategies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2012, held in Harbin, China in August 2012. The 32 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers and three keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 178 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on wireless sensor networks; data warehousing and data mining; query processing; spatial databases; similarity search and queries; XML and Web data; graph and uncertain data; distributed computing; data security and management; information extraction and integration; and social networks and modern Web services.