Cybernetics and systems theory

The aim of this book is to give a unified and critical account of the fundamental aspects of liquid crystals.

Nonextensive statistical mechanics is now a rapidly growing field and a new stream in the research of the foundations of statistical mechanics.

This book has evolved from our combined experience of working in computing services at the University of London (for the last nine years at King's College, and before that eight years at Imperial College and seven at Chelsea College) in the teaching, advice and technical support of Fortran and related areas.

The book discusses subjective ratings of quality and preference of unknown voices and dialog partners - their likability, for example.

This book provides the foundations for a rigorous theory of functional analysis with bicomplex scalars.

This book presents the works and research findings of physicists, economists, mathematicians, statisticians, and financial engineers who have undertaken data-driven modelling of market dynamics and other empirical studies in the field of Econophysics.

This monograph deals with theoretical fundamentals and numerical methods of optimizing nondetermined models of systems.

This book presents solutions to control problems in a number of robotic systems and provides a wealth of worked-out examples with full analytical and numerical details, graphically illustrated to aid in reader comprehension.

This book provides an overview of software security analysis in a DevOps cycle including requirements formalisation, verification and continuous monitoring.

Regularity and Complexity in Dynamical Systems describes periodic and chaotic behaviors in dynamical systems, including continuous, discrete, impulsive, discontinuous, and switching systems.

The book discusses the evolution of future generation technologies through Internet of Things (IoT) in the scope of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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 book provides, at a high level and in a tractable fashion, a description of how wireless communications are achieved in the latest smartphones.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022.

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The development of high-order accurate numerical discretization techniques for irregular domains and meshes is often cited as one of the remaining chal- lenges facing the field of computational fluid dynamics.

This book includes research papers presented at the International Conference on Data Science and Network Engineering (ICDSNE 2024) organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Tripura, India, during July 12-13, 2024.

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.

@EOI: AEI rEOMETPEI Epigram of the Academy of Plato in Athens Electromagnetism, the science of forces arising from Amber (HAEKTPON) and the stone of Magnesia (MArNHLIA), has been the fOWldation of major scientific breakthroughs, such as Quantum Mechanics and Theory of Relativity, as well as most leading edge technologies of the twentieth century.

WAVE TURBULENCE is a state of a system of many simultaneously excited and interacting waves characterized by an energy distribution which is not in any sense close to thermodynamic equilibrium.

This book reports on recent theories and methods for diagnostics and condition monitoring of machines, materials and industrial processes, with a special emphasis on the application of artificial intelligence and intelligent control systems.

The dynamics of transition from laminar to turbulent flow remains to this day a major challenge in theoretical and applied mechanics.

This book gathers extended versions of the best papers presented at the Global Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Its Application Areas (GJCIE), organized virtually on August 14-15, 2020, by Istanbul Technical University.

This book presents scientific metrics and its applications for approaching scientific findings in the field of Physics, Economics and Scientometrics.

Hybrid and Networked Dynamical Systems treats a class of systems that is ubiquitous in everyday life.

This book presents a selection of papers about problems which arise in dependability studies of contemporary computer systems and networks.

In the fall of 1994, Edward Witten proposed a set of equations which give the main results of Donaldson theory in a far simpler way than had been thought possible.

This book considers a class of ergodic finite controllable Markov's chains.

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The central theme of this book is the extent to which the structure of the free dynamical boundaries of a system controls the evolution of the system as a whole.

This book draws inspiration from natural shepherding, whereby a farmer utilizes sheepdogs to herd sheep, to inspire a scalable and inherently human friendly approach to swarm control.

In today's competitive environments enterprises face diminishing market life spans, increasing pressure on profit margins and increasingly complex c- tomer requirements.

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) consist of software-controlled computing devices communicating with each other and interacting with the physical world through sensors and actuators.

Adaptivity and learning have in recent decades become a common concern of scientific disciplines.

This book analyzes the updated principles and applications of nonlinear approaches to solve engineering and physics problems.

Stochastic switching systems represent an interesting class of systems that can be used to model a variety of systems having abrupt random changes in their dynamics.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on emergent bursty patterns in the dynamics of human behaviour.

The purpose of this book is to provide an accessible introduction to a new set of methods for the analysis of Lagrangian motion in geophysical ?

This book is a revision and extension of my 1995 Sourcebook of Control Systems Engineering.

Since the 1950s control theory has established itself as a major mathematical discipline, particularly suitable for application in a number of research fields, including advanced engineering design, economics and the medical sciences.

This book provides an introduction to Swarm Robotics, which is the application of methods from swarm intelligence to robotics.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Conference on High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, HPCSE 2015, held in Solan, Czech Republic, in May 2015.

This book, the third of 15 related monographs, presents systematically a theory of self-independent cubic nonlinear systems.

H-infinity engineering continues to establish itself as a discipline of applied mathematics.

This book is meant to be a practical introduction into the use of probability and statistics in experimental physics for advanced undergraduate students and for graduate students.

This text is an introduction to the spectral theory of the Laplacian on compact or finite area hyperbolic surfaces.

This book is useful to engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and students in different branches of production, engineering, and systems sciences.