Cybernetics and systems theory

This book provides a unique insight into the research and recent developments undertaken among the African Remote Sensing community in regard to the environment.

This book highlights advances in Cyber Security, Cyber Situational Awareness (CyberSA), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Media.

Death Investigation: A Field Guide, Second Edition is updated and expanded to include a chronological analysis of the death scene investigative process from the first notification to the autopsy and final report.

The ability to thoroughly and accurately photograph a crime scene is a mandate for all investigators, regardless of the time of day, weather conditions, or confines within which a piece of evidence is concealed.

The ability to thoroughly and accurately photograph a crime scene is a mandate for all investigators, regardless of the time of day, weather conditions, or confines within which a piece of evidence is concealed.

 This is a book on nonlinear dynamical systems and their bifurcations under parameter variation.

This book presents a novel design framework for the development of Digital Twin (DT) models for process- and motion-control applications.

This book describes different methods that are relevant to the development and testing of control algorithms for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving functions (ADF).

Wiring diagrams form a kind of graphical language that describes operations or processes with multiple inputs and outputs, and shows how such operations are wired together to form a larger and more complex operation.

This book gives a comprehensive overview of the relationship between admissibility and hyperbolicity.

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 edited book considers social systems as self-organizing structures that reproduce new structural elements endowed with certain functional connections.

This highly interdisciplinary book, covering more than six fields, from philosophy and sciences all the way up to the humanities and with contributions from eminent authors, addresses the interplay between content and context, reductionism and holism and their meeting point: the notion of emergence.

This book discusses recent advances in the estimation and control of networked systems with unacknowledged packet losses: systems usually known as user-datagram-protocol-like.

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate computing and communication capabilities by monitoring and controlling the physical systems via embedded hardware and computers.

This highly interdisciplinary volume brings together a carefully curated set of case studies examining complex systems with multiple time scales (MTS) across a variety of fields: materials science, epidemiology, cell physiology, mathematics, climatology, energy transition planning, ecology, economics, sociology, history, and cultural studies.

This highly interdisciplinary volume brings together a carefully curated set of case studies examining complex systems with multiple time scales (MTS) across a variety of fields: materials science, epidemiology, cell physiology, mathematics, climatology, energy transition planning, ecology, economics, sociology, history, and cultural studies.

This monograph provides a state-of-the-art treatment of learning and robust control in quantum technology.

This book focuses on new and emerging data mining solutions that offer a greater level of transparency than existing solutions.

This book is dedicated to the consolidation and to the expansion of theoretic systems thinking as a necessary integration of the general reductionist and analytical attitude dominant in our culture.

This book centres on a broadened view of complexity that will enrich engagement with complexity in the social sciences.

This book extrapolates many of the concepts that are well defined for discrete-time deterministic sliding-mode control for use with discrete-time stochastic systems.

This textbook provides comprehensive information on general and statistical thermodynamics.

This book explores the interdisciplinary field of complex systems theory.

This text provides training on the fundamental tools and methodologies used in active forensic laboratories for the complicated analysis of fire debris and explosives evidence.

Social machines are a type of network connected by interactive digital devices made possible by the ubiquitous adoption of technologies such as the Internet, the smartphone, social media and the read/write World Wide Web, connecting people at scale to document situations, cooperate on tasks, exchange information, or even simply to play.

Optimal Impulsive Control explores the class of impulsive dynamic optimization problems-problems that stem from the fact that many conventional optimal control problems do not have a solution in the classical setting-which is highly relevant with regard to engineering applications.

This book focuses on a central question in the field of complex systems: Given a fluctuating (in time or space), uni- or multi-variant sequentially measured set of experimental data (even noisy data), how should one analyse non-parametrically the data, assess underlying trends, uncover characteristics of the fluctuations (including diffusion and jump contributions), and construct a stochastic evolution equation?

This book presents a systematic study of an emerging field in the development of multi-agent systems.

This volume contains extended abstracts outlining selected presentations given by participants of the joint international multidisciplinary workshop MURPHYS-HSFS-2016 (MUltiRate Processes and HYSteresis; Hysteresis and Slow-Fast Systems), which was dedicated to the mathematical theory and applications of multiple scale systems and systems with hysteresis, and held at the Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM) in Barcelona from June 13th to 17th, 2016.

This book provides a series of systematic theoretical results and numerical solution algorithms for dynamic optimization problems of switched systems within infinite-dimensional inequality path constraints.

This monograph explores the design of controllers that suppress oscillations and instabilities in congested traffic flow using PDE backstepping methods.

This book is devoted to the problem of sampled-data control of finite-dimensional linear continuous periodic (FDLCP) objects.

This book offers a thought-provoking exploration of dynamic geometry and its connections to self-reference and theoretical biology.

This book explores how to manage complexity in a highly interconnected world.

The history of computer-aided face recognition dates to the 1960s, yet the problem of automatic face recognition - a task that humans perform routinely and effortlessly in our daily lives - still poses great challenges, especially in unconstrained conditions.

This book focuses in detail on data science and data analysis and emphasizes the importance of data engineering and data management in the design of big data applications.

This book examines how map-based collaboration software can facilitate negotiations in areas undergoing contentious pressures for significant change.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of cyber security in Industry 5.

This book gathers peer-reviewed, selected contributions from participants of the 6th International Workshop on Nonlinear and Modern Mathematical Physics (NMMP-2022), hosted virtually from June 17-19, 2022.

This book includes high-quality research papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication (ICICC 2024), which is held at the Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, on 16-17 February 2024.

Cybersecurity and Data Science Innovations for Sustainable Development of HEICC: Healthcare, Education, Industry, Cities, and Communities brings together a collection of chapters that explore the intersection of cybersecurity, data science, and sustainable development across key sectors: healthcare, education, industry, cities, and communities.

This book, authored by some of the pioneers in the security certification domain, provides a foundational knowledge base for designing and deploying effective security certification schemes for cloud-edge distributed systems.

The book focuses on a very important area of Smart Grids - cyber security.

This book offers a thorough introduction to the basics and scientific and technological innovations involved in the modern study of reinforcement-learning-based feedback control.

This book is devoted to the study of engineering and control technologies for the cyber-physical systems development.

This book is devoted to the study of engineering and control technologies for the cyber-physical systems development.

This book discusses the potential of the Internet of Unmanned Things (IoUT), which is considered a promising paradigm resulting in numerous applications including shipment of goods, home package delivery, crop monitoring, agricultural surveillance, and rescue operations.

This book is an enhanced and expanded English edition of the treatise "e;Fondamenti matematici e analisi numerica della dinamica di un Universo isotropo,"e; published by the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino in volume no.

This book addresses the problem of accurate state estimation in nonlinear continuous-time stochastic models with additive noise and discrete measurements.