Cybernetics and systems theory

A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world.

A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world.

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The rapid growth and reliance on cyber systems have permeated our society, government, and military which is demonstrated in this book.

This book explores current research and development in the area of digital healthcare using recent technologies such as data science and artificial intelligence.

The book presents recent applications and developments in the field of control of industrial systems, covering a wide range of modeling and feedback control using various robust approaches such as fuzzy systems, sliding mode control, and H-infinity.

The problems of interrelation between human economics and natural environment include scientific, technical, economic, demographic, social, political and other aspects that are studied by scientists of many specialities.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Summer Program on Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Applications held at the IMA on July 13--31, 2009.

This monograph provides a complete and comprehensive introduction to the theory of long-tailed and subexponential distributions in one dimension.

"e;The Limits to Growth"e; (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies.

For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers.

Nothing happens in the world without energy conversion and entropy production.

One criterion for classifying books is whether they are written for a single pur- pose or for multiple purposes.

Simulation and molding are efficient techniques that can aid the city and regional planners and engineers in optimizing the operation of urban systems such as traffic light control, highway toll automation, consensus building, public safety, and environmental protection.

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.

The subject of the book is the "e;know-how"e; of applied mathematical modelling: how to construct specific models and adjust them to a new engineering environment or more precise realistic assumptions; how to analyze models for the purpose of investigating real life phenomena; and how the models can extend our knowledge about a specific engineering process.

When analyzing systems with a large number of parameters, the dimen- sion of the original system may present insurmountable difficulties for the analysis.

This book is an expanded third edition of the book Performance Analysis of Digital Transmission Systems, originally published in 1990.

Networks of Learning Automata: Techniques for Online Stochastic Optimization is a comprehensive account of learning automata models with emphasis on multiautomata systems.

Many complex systems found in nature can be viewed as function optimizers.

A Polynomial Approach to Linear Algebra is a text which is heavily biased towards functional methods.

Adaptive Resonance Theory Microchips describes circuit strategies resulting in efficient and functional adaptive resonance theory (ART) hardware systems.

A First Course in Information Theory is an up-to-date introduction to information theory.

The area of adaptive systems, which encompasses recursive identification, adaptive control, filtering, and signal processing, has been one of the most active areas of the past decade.

The idea for this book was conceived by the authors some time in 1988, and a first outline of the manuscript was drawn up during a summer school on mathematical physics held in Ravello in September 1988, where all three of us were present as lecturers or organizers.

The roots of this book, and of the new research field that it defines, lie in the scaling of VLSI technology.

The aim of the book is to lay out the foundations and provide a detailed treatment of the subject.

Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics - Thermodynamics develops basic and advanced concepts of plasma thermodynamics from both classical and statistical points of view.

Fundamental Aspects of Plasma Chemical Physics: Transport develops basic and advanced concepts of plasma transport to the modern treatment of the Chapman-Enskog method for the solution of the Boltzmann transport equation.

This book is a comprehensive treatment of engineering undergraduate differential equations as well as linear vibrations and feedback control.

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

For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many.

This book reflects on recent advances in the understanding of percolation systems to present a wide range of transport phenomena in inhomogeneous disordered systems.

"e;Fault Detection and Isolation: Multi-Vehicle Unmanned System"e; deals with the design and development of fault detection and isolation algorithms for unmanned vehicles such as spacecraft, aerial drones and other related vehicles.

This book describes a complete revolution in software engineering based on complexity science through the establishment of NSE - Nonlinear Software Engineering paradigm which complies with the essential principles of complexity science, including the Nonlinearity principle, the Holism principle, the Complexity Arises From Simple Rules principle, the Initial Condition Sensitivity principle, the Sensitivity to Change principle, the Dynamics principle, the Openness principle, the Self-organization principle, and the Self-adaptation principle.

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Robot and Multibody Dynamics: Analysis and Algorithms provides a comprehensive and detailed exposition of a new mathematical approach, referred to as the Spatial Operator Algebra (SOA), for studying the dynamics of articulated multibody systems.

Cooperative and relay communications have recently become the most widely explored topics in communications, whereby users cooperate in transmitting their messages to the destination, instead of conventional networks which operate independently and compete among each other for channel resources.

The aim of this Book is to give an overview, based on the results of nearly three decades of intensive research, of transient chaos.

Over the last four decades there has been extensive development in the theory of dynamical systems.

Discontinuous dynamical systems have played an important role in both theory and applications during the last several decades.

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The aim of the School on Rheology of Complex fluids is to bring together young researchers and teachers from educational and R&D institutions, and expose them to the basic concepts and research techniques used in the study of rheological behavior of complex fluids.

Descriptor linear systems theory is an important part in the general field of control systems theory, and has attracted much attention in the last two decades.

MEMS Linear and Nonlinear Statics and Dynamics presents the necessary analytical and computational tools for MEMS designers to model and simulate most known MEMS devices, structures, and phenomena.

A large-scale system is composed of several interconnected subsystems.

For over 300 years, differential equations have served as an essential tool for describing and analyzing problems in many scientific disciplines.

Complexity and dynamic order of controlled engineering systems is constantly increasing.

Dynamical Systems: Discontinuous, Stochasticity and Time-Delay provides an overview of the most recent developments in nonlinear dynamics, vibration and control.

Our understanding of information and information dynamics has outgrown classical information theory.