Cybernetics and systems theory

This book presents the implementation of novel concepts and solutions, which allows to enhance the cyber security of administrative and industrial systems and the resilience of economies and societies to cyber and hybrid threats.

This monograph provides a comprehensive analysis of the control of singularly perturbed time delay systems.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 11th Italian Workshop on Advances in Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation and Systems Chemistry, WIVACE 2016, held at Fisciano, Italy, in October 2016.

This book presents cutting-edge research on innovative system interfaces, highlighting both lifecycle development and human-technology interaction, especially in virtual, augmented and mixed reality systems.

This monograph investigates the stability and performance of control systems subject to actuator saturation.

This book targets the critical issue of decision making in uncertain conditions and situations.

This book presents a concise study of controllability theory of partial differential equations when they are equipped with actuators and/or sensors that are finite dimensional at every moment of time.

This book addresses the impacts of various types of services such as infrastructure, platforms, software, and business processes that cloud computing and Big Data have introduced into business.

This volume contains extended abstracts outlining selected talks and other selected presentations given by participants throughout the "e;Intensive Research Program on Advances in Nonsmooth Dynamics 2016"e;, held at the Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM) in Barcelona from February 1st to April 29th, 2016.

This book discusses advances in smart and sustainable development of smart environments.

This book is based on EU-funded project PLANTFOODSEC, covering intentional and unintentional threats to plant biosecurity and to food safety areas.

This book presents the outcomes of the 2021 International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics (CSIA 2021), 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 cybercrime.

This brief describes the basics of Riemannian optimization-optimization on Riemannian manifolds-introduces algorithms for Riemannian optimization problems, discusses the theoretical properties of these algorithms, and suggests possible applications of Riemannian optimization to problems in other fields.

This book provides readers with an insight into information and knowledge in the Internet of Things, in particular an investigation of data management and processing, information extraction, technology, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, knowledge co-creation, knowledge integration, and the development of new intelligent services available anytime, anywhere, by anyone.

This book discusses the trust models for next-generation Blockchain ecosystems.

This book covers a variety of smart IoT applications for industry and research.

This textbook gradually introduces students to the statistical mechanical study of the different phases of matter and to the phase transitions between them.

This book presents a new understanding on how control systems truly operate, and explains how to recognize, simulate, and improve control systems in all fields of activity.

This book includes constructive approximation theory; it presents ordinary and fractional approximations by positive sublinear operators, and high order approximation by multivariate generalized Picard, Gauss-Weierstrass, Poisson-Cauchy and trigonometric singular integrals.

Changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and global climate conditions have altered photosynthesis and plant respiration across both geologic and contemporary time scales.

This book presents a differential geometric method for designing nonlinear observers for multiple types of nonlinear systems, including single and multiple outputs, fully and partially observable systems, and regular and singular dynamical systems.

Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Feedback Control develops model-based and data-driven reinforcement learning methods for solving optimal control problems in nonlinear deterministic dynamical systems.

This book presents the latest achievements of Russian scientists in the field of theory and practice of decision-making in SEMS, taking into account the information received from the sensors of its central nervous system (CNS).

The proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Chaos, Complexity and Leadership illuminate current research results and academic work from the fields of physics, mathematics, education, economics, as well as management and social sciences.

This book collects chapters dealing with some of the theoretical aspects needed to properly discuss the dynamics of complex engineering systems.

This book provides a thorough overview of cutting-edge research on electronics applications relevant to industry, the environment, and society at large.

This book provides readers with an introduction to m-polar fuzzy graphs and m-polar fuzzy hypergraphs, covering both theories and applications.

This book gives a detailed analysis of switched-capacitor DC-DC converters that are entirely integrated on a single chip and establishes that these converters are mainly limited by the large parasitic coupling, the low capacitor energy density, and the fact that switched-capacitor converter topologies only have a fixed voltage conversion ratio.

This book introduces recent results on output synchronization of complex dynamical networks with single and multiple weights.

This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating and ubiquitous occurrence of spirals and vortices in human culture and in nature.

This book focuses on novel and state-of-the-art scientific work in the area of detection and prediction techniques using information found generally in graphs and particularly in social networks.

This book contains advances on the theory and applications of time-delay systems with particular focus on interconnected systems.

This monograph introduces the authors' work on model predictive control system design using extended state space and extended non-minimal state space approaches.

This book highlights relevant studies and applications in the area of robotics, which reflect the latest research, from interdisciplinary theoretical studies and computational algorithm development, to representative applications.

This book presents selected topics in implementing a risk-based approach for complex engineering systems in general, and nuclear plants in particular.

This book presents basic research on delta operator systems (DOS) with actuator saturation.

This book provides a detailed "e;how-to"e; guide, addressing aspects ranging from analysis and design to the implementation of applications, which need to be integrated within legacy applications and databases.

This book is focused on the importance of detecting people's motivation, how they make decisions and the way the actions they take is rapidly increasing with the progress of IoT and the Connected Society.

This Brief revisits and extends Epstein's classical agent-based model of civil violence by considering important mechanisms suggested by social conflict theories.

This volume examines all aspects of using agent or individual-based simulation.

All of us are confronted with complex phenomena occurring in daily life and in the living and inanimate nature surrounding us.

This textbook covers the fundamental theories of signals and systems analysis, while incorporating recent developments from integrated circuits technology into its examples.

The aim of this book is the pedagogical exploration of the basic principles of quantum-statistical thermodynamics as applied to various states of matter - ranging from rare gases to astrophysical matter with high-energy density.

This book describes the state of the art and future prospects of the most important bio-medicolegal subdisciplines in the post-genomic framework of personalized medicine.

This volume comprises high-quality works in pure and applied mathematics from the mathematical communities in Spain and Brazil.

This book presents a time-delay approach to the analysis and synthesis of networked control systems (NCSs) under communication constraints.

This book explains the foundations of holomorphic curve theory in contact geometry.

This book introduces readers to the topical area of CSI: critical space infrastructure, which is defined as an emerging domain of systems-of-systems encompassing hardware, workforce, environment, facilities, business and organizational entities.

This book covers the methodological, epistemological and practical issues of integrating qualitative and socio-anthropological factors into archaeological modeling.

The book includes the best extended papers which were selected from the 3rd International Conference of Electrical and Information Technologies (ICEIT 2017, Morocco).