Cybernetics and systems theory

This book provides readers with a valuable reference on cyber weapons and, in particular,  viruses, software and hardware Trojans.

Understanding the latest capabilities in the cyber threat landscape as well as the cyber forensic challenges and approaches is the best way users and organizations can prepare for potential negative events.

The main goal of this book is to systematically address the mathematical methods that are applied in the study of synchronization of infinite-dimensional evolutionary dissipative or partially dissipative systems.

This volume fills a research gap between the rapid development of High Performance Computing (HPC) approaches and their geospatial applications.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the first volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book provides engineers and scientists in academia and industry with a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of nonlinear system identification.

This book explores the latest research trends in intelligent systems and smart applications.

This book presents selected papers from the Fifteenth International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems (DepCoS-RELCOMEX), which illustrate the diversity of theoretical problems in analysis of performability, reliability and security of contemporary computer systems.

This book gathers the most essential results, including recent ones, on linear-quadratic optimal control problems, which represent an important aspect of stochastic control.

This book provides a general introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods, also known as particle filters.

This book examines key concepts and analytical approaches in complexity theory as it applies to landscape ecology, including complex networks, connectivity, criticality, feedback, and self-organisation.

This book explores the role of exaptation in diverse areas of life, with examples ranging from biology to economics, social sciences and architecture.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of security issues in Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs), by analyzing the issues and vulnerabilities in CPSs and examining state of the art security measures.

This book focuses on operations management methods for analysing complex systems from a system engineering perspective.

This book provides a comprehensive and consistent introduction to the Internet of Things.

This book is intended for specialists in systems engineering interested in new, general techniques and for students and practitioners interested in using these techniques for solving specific practical problems.

This book originated at a workshop by the same name held in May 2018 at the University of Pavia.

In the face of growing challenges, we need modes of thinking that allow us to not only grasp complexity but also perform it.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Industry 4.

This book provides and assesses the techniques required for the realization of practical wireless-powered backscatter systems for large-scale and intelligent IoT networks.

This book provides an analysis of the role of fog computing, cloud computing, and Internet of Things in providing uninterrupted context-aware services as they relate to Healthcare 4.

This volume presents selected papers from the International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications (ICUIA), which took place on May 10-12, 2019 in Wuhan, China.

This book explores the impact of nonlinearity on a broad range of areas, including time-honored fields such as biology, geometry, and topology, but also modern ones such as quantum mechanics, networks, metamaterials and artificial intelligence.

The book gives a broad overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) concept from various angles.

This book introduces a new branch of evaluation theory, where evaluation and score calculation is embedded into general measure theory, as is typical in geometry, probability theory and reliability theory.

This textbook presents, in a mathematically precise manner, a unified introduction to deterministic control theory.

This book investigates various aspects of the phenomenon of atmospheric oxygen depletion, and summarizes our current knowledge of atmospheric oxygen.

This book discusses Internet of Things (IoT) as it relates to enterprise applications, systems, and infrastructures.

This book contains a derivation of the subset of stabilizing controllers for analog and digital linear time-invariant multivariable feedback control systems that insure stable system errors and stable controller outputs for persistent deterministic reference inputs that are trackable and for persistent deterministic disturbance inputs that are rejectable.

Written in the 1980s by one of the fathers of chaos theory, Otto E.

This book describes a set of SystemC-based virtual prototype analysis methodologies, including design understanding, verification, security validation, and design space exploration.

This book offers a concise introduction to ergodic methods in group homology, with a particular focus on the computation of L2-Betti numbers.

This book presents an authoritative collection of contributions by researchers from 16 different countries (Austria, Chile, Georgia, Germany, Mexico, Norway, P.

This volume chronicles the 16th Annual Conference on System Engineering Research (CSER) held on May 8-9, 2018 at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

Control of Wave and Beam PDEs is a concise, self-contained introduction to Riesz bases in Hilbert space and their applications to control systems described by partial differential equations (PDEs).

This text provides one of the first book-length studies on the innovative and sustainable development of complex systems in the era of digital transformations, combining quantitative data from several countries with detailed qualitative accounts at the national level.

This book highlights research and survey articles dedicated to big data techniques for cyber-physical system (CPS), which addresses the close interactions and feedback controls between cyber components and physical components.

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Computing Networks, Big Data and IoT [ICCBI 2019], held on December 19-20, 2019 at the Vaigai College of Engineering, Madurai, India.

This book addresses the challenges and opportunities of information/data processing and management.

This collection of peer-reviewed workshop papers provides comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge research into topological approaches to data analysis and visualization.

This book introduces researchers and practitioners to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and its applications in the built environment.

This book presents a new methodology with reduced time impact to address the problem of analog integrated circuit (IC) yield estimation by means of Monte Carlo (MC) analysis, inside an optimization loop of a population-based algorithm.

Basic laws of nature are rather simple, but observed biological structures and their dynamic behaviors are unbelievably complicated.

This comprehensive overview of IoT systems architecture includes in-depth treatment of all key components: edge, communications, cloud, data processing, security, management, and uses.

This volume comprises high-quality works in pure and applied mathematics from the mathematical communities in Spain and Brazil.

This book is devoted to unstable solutions of stochastic differential equations (SDEs).

The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe.

This book shows how open source intelligence can be a powerful tool for combating crime by linking local and global patterns to help understand how criminal activities are connected.

This book proposes a synergistic framework to help IP vendors to protect hardware IP privacy and integrity from design, optimization, and evaluation perspectives.

Motivated by recent increased activity of research on time scales, the book  provides a systematic approach to the study of the qualitative theory of boundedness, periodicity and stability of Volterra integro-dynamic equations on time scales.