Cybernetics and systems theory

Networks naturally appear in many high-impact domains, ranging from social network analysis to disease dissemination studies to infrastructure system design.

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This monograph uses braids to explore dynamics on surfaces, with an eye towards applications to mixing in fluids.

This book provides an introduction to classical celestial mechanics.

Notifications provide a unique mechanism for increasing the effectiveness of real-time information delivery systems.

This book will give you a practical overview of several methods and approaches for designing mobile technologies and conducting mobile user research, including how to understand behavior and evaluate how such technologies are being (or may be) used out in the world.

Fueled by falling display hardware costs and rising demand, digital signage and pervasive displays are becoming ever more ubiquitous.

Mobile platform development has lately become a technological war zone with extremely dynamic and fluid movement, especially in the smart phone and tablet market space.

This Synthesis Lecture presents a discussion of Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless networks over unlicensed spectrum.

Advances in electronic location technology and the coming of age of mobile computing have opened the door for location-aware applications to permeate all aspects of everyday life.

This book is a compilation of scientific articles written by recognized researchers, and select students, participating in the Second Conference on the Study of Complex Systems and their Applications (EDIESCA 2021).

It is easy to imagine that a future populated with an ever-increasing number of mobile and pervasive devices that record our minute goings and doings will significantly expand the amount of information that will be collected, stored, processed, and shared about us by both corporations and governments.

This lecture provides an introduction to cyber foraging, a topic that lies at the intersection of mobile and cloud computing.

This lecture presents a first compendium of established and emerging standards in pervasive computing systems.

Testing applications for mobile phones is difficult, time-consuming, and hard to do effectively.

Managing data in a mobile computing environment invariably involves caching or replication.

The confluence of decades of computer science and computer engineering research in multimodal interaction (e.

This lecture provides an introduction to the problem of managing the energy demand of mobile devices.

This lecture provides an introduction to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), a technology enabling automatic identification of objects at a distance without requiring line-of-sight.

This book provides a quick reference and insights into modeling and optimization of software-defined networks (SDNs).

This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of cyber insurance.

With the explosive growth of mobile computing and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, as exemplified by AR/VR, smart city, and video/audio surveillance, billions of mobile and IoT devices are being connected to the Internet, generating zillions of bytes of data at the network edge.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the Poisson line Cox process (PLCP) and its applications to vehicular networks.

This book examines recent developments in Operations Management, and focuses on four major application areas: dynamic pricing, assortment optimization, supply chain and inventory management, and healthcare operations.

This book gathers contributions on analytical, numerical, and application aspects of time-delay systems, under the paradigm of control theory, and discusses recent advances in these different contexts, also highlighting the interdisciplinary connections.

This book, dedicated to Professor Georgi M.

This book reports on innovative strategies for quality control, risk assessment and sustainable development in production processes, in the era of industry 4.

This book covers recent trends and applications of nonlinear dynamics in various branches of society, science, and engineering.

This book, dedicated to Professor Georgi M.

This book aims to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share their experience and knowledge.

This book focuses on the use of The Internet of Things (IoT) and big data in business intelligence, data management, Hadoop, machine learning, cloud, smart cities, etc.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and technology aimed at increasing the efficiency of production processes and to foster the implementation of Industry 4.

This book propagates a new way of thinking about managing our resources by integrating the perspectives of complex systems theory and social psychology.

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 fifth edition of "e;Product Lifecycle Management"e; updates and adds to the successful fourth edition, the most frequently cited PLM publication.

This book starts with an introduction to the basic concepts of multistability, then illustrates how multistability arises in different systems and explains the main mechanisms of multistability emergence.

The main focus of this book is a pair of cooperative control problems: consensus and cooperative output regulation.

This book aims to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to meet and share their experience and knowledge.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of the Sharkovsky ordering, its different aspects and its role in dynamical systems theory and applications.

This book describes the impact of Era 4.

This book explores the physical and electronic integration of innovative urban public transport systems in seven metropolitan cities in South Africa and Zimbabwe in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.

This textbook is designed for an introductory, one-semester course in Control Systems for undergraduates and graduates in various engineering departments, such as electrical, mechanical, aerospace, and civil.

This book takes the notions of adaptivity and learning from the realm of engineering into the realm of biology and natural processes.

With rise of smart medical sensors, cloud computing and the health care technologies, "e;connected health"e; is getting remarkable consideration everywhere.

This book presents the outcomes of the 2022 4th International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics (CSIA 2022), an international conference dedicated to promoting novel theoretical and applied research advances in the interdisciplinary field of cyber-security, particularly focusing on threat intelligence, analytics, and countering cyber-crime.

This book presents recent improvements in peridynamic modeling of structures.

This book provides insights on skills required to achieve success in smart cities from a variety of industry and human factors perspectives.

This book introduces machine learning and its applications in smart environments/cities.

Communication-Protocol-Based Filtering and Control of Networked Systems is a self-contained treatment of the state of the art in communication-protocol-based filtering and control; recent advances in networked systems; and the potential for application in sensor networks.

This book presents the outcomes of the 2022 4th International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics (CSIA 2022), an international conference dedicated to promoting novel theoretical and applied research advances in the interdisciplinary field of cyber-security, particularly focusing on threat intelligence, analytics, and countering cyber-crime.