Cybernetics and systems theory

Linearization models for discrete and continuous time dynamical systems are the driving forces for modern geometric function theory and composition operator theory on function spaces.

This twelfth volume in the Poincare Seminar Series presents a complete and interdisciplinary perspective on the concept of Chaos, both in classical mechanics in its deterministic version, and in quantum mechanics.

This tenth volume in the Poincare Seminar Series describes recent developments at one of the most challenging frontiers in statistical physics - the deeply related fields of glassy dynamics, especially near the glass transition, and of the statics and dynamics of granular systems.

This eleventh volume in the Poincare Seminar Series presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the concept of Time, which poses some of the most challenging questions in science.

In this monograph, we combine operator techniques with state space methods to solve factorization, spectral estimation, and interpolation problems arising in control and signal processing.

The asymptotic behaviour, in particular "e;stability"e; in some sense, is studied systematically for discrete and for continuous linear dynamical systems on Banach spaces.

This book concerns peer-to-peer applications and mechanisms operating on the Internet, particularly those that are not fully automated and involve significant human interaction.

This text presents a modern theory of analysis, control, and optimization for dynamic networks.

In this book, we consider the problem of achieving the maximum throughput and utility in a class of networks with resource-sharing constraints.

This book is an introduction to Markov chain modeling with applications to communication networks.

A detailed introduction to the design, implementation, and use of network simulation tools is presented.

The algebraic path problem is a generalization of the shortest path problem in graphs.

This book introduces some basic mathematical tools in reaction-diffusion models, with applications to spatial ecology and evolutionary biology.

This book describes the 5G mobile network from a systems perspective, focusing on the fundamental design principles that are easily obscured by an overwhelming number of acronyms and standards definitions that dominate this space.

This book discusses an efficient random linear network coding scheme, called BATched Sparse code, or BATS code, which is proposed for communication through multi-hop networks with packet loss.

The congestion control mechanism has been responsible for maintaining stability as the Internet scaled up by many orders of magnitude in size, speed, traffic volume, coverage, and complexity over the last three decades.

The last decade has seen an unprecedented growth in the demand for wireless services.

The concept of physical-layer network coding (PNC) was proposed in 2006 for application in wireless networks.

Resource Allocation lies at the heart of network control.

Today's wireless communications and networking practices are tightly coupled with economic considerations, to the extent that it is almost impossible to make a sound technology choice without understanding the corresponding economic implications.

This monograph presents a concise mathematical approach for modeling and analyzing the performance of communication networks with the aim of introducing an appropriate mathematical framework for modeling and analysis as well as understanding the phenomenon of statistical multiplexing.

With the explosive increase in the number of mobile devices and applications, it is anticipated that wireless traffic will increase exponentially in the coming years.

Packet delay and energy consumption are important considerations in wireless and sensor networks as these metrics directly affect the quality of service of the application and the resource consumption of the network; especially, for a rapidly growing class of real-time applications that impose strict restrictions on packet delays.

NS-2 is an open-source discrete event network simulator which is widely used by both the research community as well as by the people involved in the standardization protocols of IETF.

Traditional network optimization focuses on a single control objective in a network populated by obedient users and limited dispersion of information.

Information usually has the highest value when it is fresh.

Multi-armed bandit problems pertain to optimal sequential decision making and learning in unknown environments.

Diffusion processes in large networks have been used to model many real-world phenomena, including how rumors spread on the Internet, epidemics among human beings, emotional contagion through social networks, and even gene regulatory processes.

This book results from many years of teaching an upper division course on communication networks in the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley.

This book explores interesting possibilities of extracting information about quantum states from data readily obtained from experiments, such as tomograms and expectation values of appropriate observables.

Over the course of his distinguished career, Claude Viterbo has made a number of groundbreaking contributions in the development of symplectic geometry/topology and Hamiltonian dynamics.

The breakthrough of AI in the design of complex systems in our daily lives has prompted researchers around the world to integrate this paradigm into their work.

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This textbook, now in its second edition, results from lectures, practical problems, and workshops on Optimal Control, given by the authors at Irkutsk State University, Far Eastern Federal University (both in Vladivostok, Russia), and Kwangwoon University (Seoul, South Korea).

This monograph explores the analysis and design of model-free optimal control systems based on reinforcement learning (RL) theory, presenting new methods that overcome recent challenges faced by RL.

Nowadays, online technologies are the core of most fields of engineering and the whole society and are inseparable connected for example with Internet of Things & Industrial Internet of Things (Industry 4.

This book explores cloud robotics by casting a light on key issues and proposing a novel approach towards implementation and practical aspects to allow for the widespread adoption of cloud-based functionality.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and developments focusing on  integrating intelligent functionalities into materials, components, systems and products.

Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1 of the Proceedings of the 2021 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the first volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents advances in security assurance for cyber-physical systems (CPS) and report on new machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches and technologies developed by the research community and the industry to address the challenges faced by this emerging field.

This book gathers the latest research findings on emerging trends in 5G and beyond wireless systems.

This monograph represents the outcome of research effort of the authors on scalable synchronization of large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS).

This SpringerBrief presents a brief introduction to probabilistic risk assessment (PRA), followed by a discussion of abnormal event detection techniques in industrial control systems (ICS).

This monograph examines the stability of various coupled systems with local Kelvin-Voigt damping.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Conference on Intelligence of Things (ICIT 2022), held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in August 2022.

This book offers up-to-date information and guidance on the application of metrology in legal proceedings, clarifying the limits of validity of scientific evidence and presenting an illuminating series of case studies in which measurement uncertainty has played an important role.

This volume presents an accessible overview of mathematical control theory and analysis of PDEs, providing young researchers a snapshot of these active and rapidly developing areas.

This book presents a comprehensive study covering the design and application of models and algorithms for assessing the joint device failures of telecommunication backbone networks caused by large-scale regional disasters.

This book, Proceedings of the ICR'22 International Conference on Innovations in Computing Research, provides an essential compilation of relevant and cutting-edge academic and industry work on key computer and network security, smart cities, smart energy, IoT, health informatics, biomedical imaging, data science and computer science and engineering education topics.

This volume examines current research in mechanics and its applications to various disciplines, with a particular focus on fluid-structure interaction (FSI).