Cybernetics and systems theory

New finite elements are needed as well in research as in industry environments for thedevelopment of virtual prediction techniques.

Beginning with a concise introduction to the theory of mean-field games (MFGs), this book presents the key elements of the regularity theory for MFGs.

This book presents an internationally comprehensive perspective into the field of complex systems.

This book describes a promising approach to problems in the foundations of quantum mechanics, including the measurement problem.

The unconventional computing is a niche for interdisciplinary science, cross-bred of computer science, physics, mathematics, chemistry, electronic engineering, biology, material science and nanotechnology.

The unconventional computing is a niche for interdisciplinary science, cross-bred of computer science, physics, mathematics, chemistry, electronic engineering, biology, material science and nanotechnology.

This textbook aims to briefly outline the main directions in which thegeometrization of thermodynamics has been developed in the last decades.

This contributed volume contains the conference proceedings of the Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) conference 2015, Berlin.

In this short monograph Newton-likeand other similar numerical methods with applications to solving multivariateequations are developed, which involve Caputotype fractional mixed partial derivatives and multivariate fractional Riemann-Liouvilleintegral operators.

Based on lectures given at an advanced course on integrable systems at the Centre de Recerca Matematica in Barcelona, these lecture notes address three major aspects of integrable systems: obstructions to integrability from differential Galois theory; the description of singularities of integrable systems on the basis of their relation to bi-Hamiltonian systems; and the generalization of integrable systems to the non-Hamiltonian settings.

The objective of this textbook is to introduce students and professionals to fundamental principles and techniques and emerging technologies in energy informatics and the digitalization of power markets and systems.

This volumeis a comprehensive collection of extended contributions from the fourthinternational symposium on Modeling and Implementing Complex Systems(MICS 2106) organized into four main topics: Networking and Cloud Computing,Software Engineering and Formal Methods, Intelligent and Information Systems,and Algorithms and Complexity.

This book is a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wider range of topics, including unsupervised text mining, anomaly and Intrusion Detection, Self-reconfiguring Robotics, application of Fuzzy Logic to development aid, Design and Optimization, Context-Aware Reasoning, DNA Sequence Assembly and Multilayer Perceptron Networks.

This bookintroduces numerous algorithmic hybridizations between both worlds that showhow machine learning can improve and support evolution strategies.

This book elaborates on the asymptotic behaviour, when N is large, of certain N-dimensional integrals which typically occur in random matrices, or in 1+1 dimensional quantum integrable models solvable by the quantum separation of variables.

In this volume a theory for models of transport in the presence of a free boundary is developed.

This book presents recent results on positivity and optimization of polynomials in non-commuting variables.

The book presents the lectures delivered during a short course held at Urbino University in summer 2015 on qualitative theory of dynamical systems, included in the activities of the COST Action IS1104 "e;The EU in the new economic complex geography: models, tools and policy evaluation"e;.

This bookconstitutes the revised selected papers of the 10th Italian Workshop onAdvances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and Systems Chemistry,WIVACE 2015, held at Bari, Italy, in September 2015.

This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines - complexity theorists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as well as a zoologist and a physiologist - addresses various issues regarding cities.

This book provides a synthesis of recent developments in Axiomatic Design theory and its application in large complex systems.

This edited monograph includes state-of-the-art contributions on continuous time dynamical networks with delays.

This work discusses the problem of physical meaning of the three main dynamical properties of matter motion, namely gravitation, inertia and weightlessness.

This book provides a quantitative framework for the analysis of conflict dynamics and for estimating the economic costs associated with civil wars.

The key attribute of a Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) system is its ability to maintain overall system stability and acceptable performance in the face of faults and failures within the feedback system.

This volume is a research expository article on the applied mathematics of turbulent dynamical systems through the paradigm of modern applied mathematics.

This book presents an Introduction and 11 independent chapters, whichare devoted to various new approaches of intelligent image processing andanalysis.

This volume introduces new approaches in intelligent control area fromboth the viewpoints of theory and application.

This monograph explores the modeling of conservation and balance laws of one-dimensional hyperbolic systems using partial differential equations.

This book investigates the mathematical analysis of biological invasions.

This book presents recent research work on stochastic jump hybrid systems.

This book explores how to design and implement planning & control (P&C) systems that can help organizations to manage their growth and restructuring processes in a sustainability perspective.

This book is designed as a practical and intuitive introduction to probability, statistics and random quantities for physicists.

This volume collects a selected number of papers presented at the International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications (IWOTA) held in July 2014 at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

This volume, dedicated to the eminent mathematician Vladimir Arnold, presents a collection of research and survey papers written on a large spectrum of theories and problems that have been studied or introduced by Arnold himself.

The contributions in this volume aim to deepenunderstanding of some of the current research problems and theories inmodern topics such as calculus of variations, optimization theory, complexanalysis, real analysis, differential equations, andgeometry.

This proceedings book presents edited results of the eighth International Conference on Fuzzy Information and Engineering (ICFIE'2015) and on Oriental Thinking and Fuzzy Logic, in August 17-20, 2015, in Dalian, China.

This book focuses primarily on the role of interfacial forces in understanding biological phenomena at the molecular scale.

The lastdecades have seen the emergence of Complex Networks as the language with whicha wide range of complex phenomena in fields as diverse as Physics, ComputerScience, and Medicine (to name just a few) can be properly described andunderstood.

This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "e;progress.

A unified methodology for categorizing various complexobjects is presented in this book.

This book offers a rigorous and self-contained presentation of stochastic integration and stochastic calculus within the general framework of continuous semimartingales.

The book reports on the latest advances and applications of nonlinearcontrol systems.

This book is devoted to the modeling and understandingof complex urban systems.

This volume provides visionary approaches within the multi-disciplines engaged with informal settlements covering three main themes; 'Innovative Policies and Strategies to Informal Urbanism'; 'Production, Operation and the Life-World of Urban Space' and finally 'The Dynamics of Informal Settlements'.

This book addresses a major problem for today's large-scale networked systems: certification of the required stability and performance properties using analytical and computational models.

The chapters in this book originate from the research work and contributions presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Recurrence Plots held in Grenoble, France in June 2015.

This book reports on the latest advances andapplications of chaotic systems.

This book covers the results of research that has been obtained during the last decades by scholars representing several scientific schools working in the field of theory of systems and system analysis.

This monograph investigates violations of statistical stability of physical events, variables, and processes and develops a new physical-mathematical theory taking into consideration such violations - the theory of hyper-random phenomena.