Cybernetics and systems theory

Considering integral transformations of Volterra type, F.

Simulation may be defined as the discipline whose objective is to imitate one or more aspects of reality in a way that is as close to that reality as possible; indeed, an apt synonym that is gaining some currency is artificial reality.

Statistische Mechanik ist eine deduktive Darstellung des Gleichgewichts basierend auf einer einzigen Hypothese - der Form der mikrokanonischen Dichtematrix.

By incorporating biologically-inspired functions into ICT, various types of new-generation information and communication systems can be created.

Robust and Adaptive Control (second edition) shows readers how to produce consistent and accurate controllers that operate in the presence of uncertainties and unforeseen events.

This book offers teaching/training professionals an evidence-based pedagogic guide to teaching effectively, efficiently and creatively - also known as Creative Teaching Competence.

This book includes recent research on Data Science, IoT, Smart Cities and Smart Energy, Health Informatics, and Network Security.

Fractal geometry is used to model complicated natural and technical phenomena in various disciplines like physics, biology, finance, and medicine.

This book aims to rethink systemic intervention to enhance its relevance for supporting social change in the 21st Century.

This book is primarily created for the objective of knowledge sharing and knowledge-enabling on the conceptual ideologies of cybersecurity.

This book systematically presents a fundamental theory for the local analysis of bifurcation and stability of equilibriums in nonlinear dynamical systems.

This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex tasks.

The 1990 CIME course on Mathematical Modelling of IndustrialProcesses set out to illustrate some advances in questionsof industrial mathematics, i.

In earlier forewords to the books in this series on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (DEDS), we have dwelt on the pervasive nature of DEDS in our human-made world.

The revised second edition of this textbook provides the reader with a solid foundation in probability theory and statistics as applied to the physical sciences, engineering and related fields.

Based on the recent NATO Advanced Study Institute "e;Chaotic Worlds: From Order to Disorder in Gravitational N-Body Dynamical Systems"e;, this state of the art textbook, written by internationally renowned experts, provides an invaluable reference volume for all students and researchers in gravitational n-body systems.

This book introduces the concepts of identifiability and observability in mathematical epidemiology, as well as those of observers' constructions.

Selected papers submitted by participants of the international Conference "e;Stochastic Analysis and Applied Probability 2010"e; ( www.

Uncertainties and changes are pervasive characteristics of modern systems involving interactions between humans, economics, nature and technology.

Using a wealth of anecdotes, data from academic literature, and original research, this very accessible little book highlights how we all struggle to cope with the maelstrom of choices, influences and experiences that come our way.

Das Buch behandelt die heutige roboterorientierte Programmierung mit Roboterprogrammiersprachen und stellt wichtige Konzepte der zukünftigen aufgabenorientierten Programmierung intelligenter Roboter dar, z.

- "e;Find it hard to extract and utilise valuable knowledge from the ever-increasing data deluge?

This book proposes neural networks algorithms and advanced machine learning techniques for processing nonlinear dynamic signals such as audio, speech, financial signals, feedback loops, waveform generation, filtering, equalization, signals from arrays of sensors, and perturbations in the automatic control of industrial production processes.

Understanding Complex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure the insight that the challenges of global urbanization and the complexity of urban systems cannot be understood - let alone 'managed' - by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone.

The main new feature of the fifth edition is the addition of a new chapter, Chapter 12, on applications to mathematical finance.

This work presents a study of methods useful for modeling and understanding dynamical systems in the Galaxy.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the variational formulation of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, with a novel emphasis on global descriptions of the dynamics, which is a significant conceptual departure from more traditional approaches based on the use of local coordinates on the configuration manifold.

This book is devoted to the modeling and understandingof complex urban systems.

The purpose of this book is to illustrate the fundamental concepts of complexity and complex behavior and the best methods to characterize this behavior by means of their applications to some current research topics from within the fields of fusion, earth and solar plasmas.

The Handbook of Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems establishes an authoritative reference of DDDAS, pioneered by Dr.

In 1995, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the largest public research funding organization in Germany, decided to launch a priority program (Schw- punktprogramm in German) calledKondisk- Dynamics and Control of Systems with Mixed Continuous and Discrete Dynamics.

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a general framework that allows the macroscopic description of irreversible processes.

The book discusses the potential of higher-order interactions to model real-world relational systems.

Functional analysis owes much of its early impetus to problems that arise in the calculus of variations.

A good deal of the material presented in this book has been prepared by top experts in the field lecturing in January 1987 at the Winter School on Solitons in Tiruchirapalli,India.

This book discusses the intelligent optimization and control of complex metallurgical processes, including intelligent optimization and control of raw-material proportioning processes, coking process, and reheating furnaces; intelligent control of thermal state parameters in sintering processes; and intelligent decoupling control of gas collection and mixing-and-pressurization processes.

This book introduces the intelligent control technology of heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) water system in detail, studying its thermal distribution characteristics and optimal control methods combining the nonlinearity, strong coupling and delay characteristics to improve the overall operation and maintenance level as well as the energy efficiency of HVAC water system.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME) 2020.

This book presents a comprehensive and detailed study on iterative learning control (ILC) for systems with iteration-varying trial lengths.

This book highlights advanced applications of geospatial data analytics to address real-world issues in urban society.

According to Putnam to talk of "e;facts"e; without specifying the language to be used is to talk of nothing; "e;object"e; itself has many uses and as we creatively invent new uses of words "e;we find that we can speak of 'objects'that were not 'values of any variable'in 1 any language we previously spoke"e; .

The second edition of "e;Thinking in Complexity"e;, like the first edition, was also sold out in less than one year.

This book is devoted to an investigation of some important problems of mod- ern filtering theory concerned with systems of 'any nature being able to per- ceive, store and process an information and apply it for control and regulation'.

This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex, dynamic tasks.

Synchronization, consensus and flocking are ubiquitous requirements in networked systems.

Distributed Coordination Theory for Robot Teams develops control algorithms to coordinate the motion of autonomous teams of robots in order to achieve some desired collective goal.