Cybernetics and systems theory

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.

Philosophy in Reality offers a new vision of the relation between science and philosophy in the framework of a non-propositional logic of real processes, grounded in the physics of the real world.

The book reportson the latest advances in and applications of chaos theory and intelligentcontrol.

This treatment of modern topics relatedto the control of nonlinear systems is a collection of contributionscelebrating the work of Professor Henk Nijmeijer and honoring his 60thbirthday.

This volume serves to provide an international overview of personal injury compensation in different geographical areas (15 countries already included), with a special focus on the methods used to ascertain the injury and the related damages.

This new edition provides both theoretical and practical background of security and forensics for mobile phones.

This book begins with an introduction to PBXs (Private Branch Exchanges) and the scene, statistics and involved actors.

This monograph presents some theoretical and computational aspects of the parameterization method for invariant manifolds, focusing on the following contexts: invariant manifolds associated with fixed points, invariant tori in quasi-periodically forced systems, invariant tori in Hamiltonian systems and normally hyperbolic invariant manifolds.

This book not only explores the ways in which theeconomic crisis and associated austerity policies have adversely impacted thephysical and human infrastructure and conduct of scientific research, but alsoconsiders how science can help us to understand the crisis and provide originalsolutions.

This contributed volume explores the achievements gained and the remaining puzzling questions by applying dynamical systems theory to the linguistic inquiry.

This book examines technical aspects of industrial espionage and its impact in modern companies, organizations, and individuals while emphasizing the importance of intellectual property in the information era.

Now in its third edition, this standard reference is a comprehensive treatment of nonsmooth mechanical systems refocused to give more prominence to issues connected with control and modelling.

This authoritative text/reference presents acomprehensive review of algorithms and techniques for face recognition (FR),with an emphasis on systems that can be reliably used in operationalenvironments.

This book investigates tropospheric delays, one of the main error sources in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), and its impact plays a crucial role in near real-time weather forecasting.

This book springs from a multidisciplinary, multi-organizational, and multi-sector conversation about the privacy and ethical implications of research in human affairs using big data.