Cybernetics and systems theory

This book provides a stocktake and comparative socio-legal analysis of law enforcement cooperation strategies in four different regions of the world: the European Union (EU), North America, Greater China and Australasia.

This book presents the most important findings from the 9th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC'17), held in Kunming, China on July 10-12, 2017.

Increasingly, crimes and fraud are digital in nature, occurring at breakneck speed and encompassing large volumes of data.

In an age where real-time processing and interaction with the physical world through digital lenses are paramount, visual SLAM technology has become the backbone of mobile AR/VR applications, robotics, and autonomous systems.

This book introduces 6G enabled healthcare systems and helps readers understand state-of-the-art techniques and applications for future healthcare systems.

This book introduces recent results on output synchronization of complex dynamical networks with single and multiple weights.

This work provides comprehensive, practice-oriented coverage of ballistics.

This book addresses the processes of stochastic structure formation in two-dimensional geophysical fluid dynamics based on statistical analysis of Gaussian random fields, as well as stochastic structure formation in dynamic systems with parametric excitation of positive random fields f(r,t) described by partial differential equations.

Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events - such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Ninth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held in London, on February 19-22, 2024.

This book presents design guidelines and implementation approaches for enterprise safety management system as integrated within enterprise integrated systems.

Conversation Management is an ethical, effective, and long-standing approach to investigative interviewing that is applicable to any investigative context, whether criminal or civil, based on a commitment to respect for the individual and the principles of successful communication.

A self-contained examination of all aspects of statistical evidence evaluation in forensic science, from theory to concrete applications.

Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Volumes 1-4, Second Edition is a pioneering four volume encyclopedia compiled by an international team of forensic specialists who explore the relationship between law, medicine, and science in the study of forensics.

With the ever-increasing threat of cyber-attacks, especially as the COVID-19 pandemic helped to ramp up the use of digital communications technology, there is a continued need to find new ways to maintain and improve cybersecurity.

Radar Array Processing presents modern techniques andmethods for processingradar signals received by an array ofantenna elements.

The importance of thermodynamics, particularly its Second Principle, to all branches of science in which systems with very large numbers of particles are involved cannot be overstated.

This is the first book on the Which-Is-Better (WIB) Problem.

Thurston maps are topological generalizations of postcritically-finite rational maps.

Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook is aimed at meeting the reference needs of officers who investigate serious, major, and organised crime.

The association of a suspect with the victim or crime scene through DNA evidence is one of the most powerful statements of complicity in a crime imaginable.

This is the first book to systematically present control theory for stochastic distributed parameter systems, a comparatively new branch of mathematical control theory.

Regulation of the Power Sector is a unified, consistent and comprehensive treatment of the theories and practicalities of regulation in modern power-supply systems.

This standard text gives a unified treatment of passivity and L2-gain theory for nonlinear state space systems, preceded by a compact treatment of classical passivity and small-gain theorems for nonlinear input-output maps.

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A Casebook of Mental Capacity in US Legislation: Assessment and Legal Commentary employs an applied and accessible approach to the assessment of mental capacity.

This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art.

Behavioral Forensics: Using Applied Behavior Analysis in Psychological Court Evaluations presents the first compendia on the application of behavioral principles for the assessment and analysis of criminal behavior in court-ordered psychological evaluations.

During the academic year 2002-2003, the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering of Ia~i (Romania), and its Departments of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics and of Computer Engineering respectively, celebrated 25 years from the establishment of the specialization named Automatic Control and Computer Engineering within the framework of the former Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Ia~i, and, at the same time, 40 years since the first courses on Automatic Control and Computers respectively, were introduced in the curricula of the former specializations of Electromechanical Engineering and Electrical Power Engineering at the already mentioned Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

Modern developments of Random Matrix Theory as well as pedagogical approaches to the standard core of the discipline are surprisingly hard to find in a well-organized, readable and user-friendly fashion.

This volume provides a comprehensive review of multiple-scale dynamical systems.

The Cyber-Physical System (CPS) relates to many other popularized technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT, IIoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M), Industry 4.

Now in its second edition, Forensic DNA Evidence Interpretation is the most comprehensive resource for DNA casework available today.

Recently, there have been significant developments in robust control of time-delay systems.

The association of a suspect with the victim or crime scene through DNA evidence is one of the most powerful statements of complicity in a crime imaginable.

This book is an introduction to the mathematical theory of design for articulated mechanical systems known as linkages.

Psychology's formal interaction with law began early in the twentieth century, though little in the way of substantive scholarly and professional development occurred until several decades later.

Die Finite Elemente Methode (FEM) ist heute ein gängiges Werkzeug der Ingenieurspraxis.

This book describes the practical application of artificial intelligence (AI) methods using time series data in system control.

This book discusses methods and algorithms for the near-optimal adaptive control of nonlinear systems, including the corresponding theoretical analysis and simulative examples, and presents two innovative methods for the redundancy resolution of redundant manipulators with consideration of parameter uncertainty and periodic disturbances.

This book presents cybersecurity aspects of ubiquitous and growing IoT and Cyber Physical Systems.

When a bone of unknown origin is found at a location, forensic implications arise immediately.

This book is a collection of research papers from the “7th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Applied Analysis and Computation” organized by Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon from April 18–20, 2024.

In this revised and enlarged second edition of an established text Tony Guenault provides a clear and refreshingly readable introduction to statistical physics, an essential component of any first degree in physics.

This book is targeted towards cybersecurity professionals (especially those dealing with cloud security) or any stakeholders dealing with cybersecurity who want to understand the next level of security infrastructure using blockchain.

This book explores challenges posed by the use of DNA evidence to the traditional features, procedures and principles of the criminal trial.

This contributed volume explores innovative research in the modeling, simulation, and control of crowd dynamics.

This thesis discusses the random Euclidean bipartite matching problem, i.

The global nature of crime often requires expert witnesses to work and present their conclusions in courts outside their home jurisdiction with the corresponding need for them to have an understanding of the different structures and systems operating in other jurisdictions.