Cybernetics and systems theory

This book focuses on most recent theoretical findings on control issues for active suspension systems.

This book addresses a key technology for digital information processing: Kalman filtering, which is generally considered to be one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century.

This book features recent research in mathematical modeling of indirectly and directly transmitted infectious diseases in humans, animals, and plants.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Measurement and Quality Control - Cyber Physical Issues (IMEKO TC 14 2019), held in Belgrade, Serbia, on 4-7 June 2019.

This book, now in its third edition, offers a practical guide to the use of probability and statistics in experimental physics that is of value for both advanced undergraduates and graduate students.

This monograph is the first of its kind to present innovative research results on truncated predictor feedback (TPF) designs for general linear systems with input delay.

This book contains contributions from the participants of the research group hosted by the ZiF - Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld during the period 2013-2017 as well as from the conclusive conference organized at Bielefeld in December 2017.

This book offers a systematic and rigorous treatment of continuous-time Markov decision processes, covering both theory and possible applications to queueing systems, epidemiology, finance, and other fields.

This book develops a dynamical model of the orbital motion of Lorentz spacecraft in both unperturbed and J2-perturbed environments.

The book presents nonlinear, chaotic and fractional dynamics, complex systems and networks, together with cutting-edge research on related topics.

This book focuses on theoretical aspects of dynamical systems in the broadest sense.

This book is a course-tested primer on the thermodynamics of strongly interacting matter - a profound and challenging area of both theoretical and experimental modern physics.

This volume presents the proceedings of the meeting New Trends in One-Dimensional Dynamics, which celebrated the 70th birthday of Welington de Melo and was held at the IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, in November 2016.

This book is an introduction to maximum-entropy models of random graphs with given topological properties and their applications.

Modern developments of Random Matrix Theory as well as pedagogical approaches to the standard core of the discipline are surprisingly hard to find in a well-organized, readable and user-friendly fashion.

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.

Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory Manual, Second Edition, is written by a former crime scene investigator and forensic scientist who provides practical, straightforward, and immediately applicable best practices.

Forensic Biology provides coordinated expert content from world-renowned leading authorities in forensic biology.

Hacking Wireless Access Points: Cracking, Tracking, and Signal Jacking provides readers with a deeper understanding of the hacking threats that exist with mobile phones, laptops, routers, and navigation systems.

Forensic Examination of Signatures explains the neuroscience and kinematics of signature production, giving specific details of research carried out on the topic.

In our attempts to understand crime, researchers typically focus on proximate factors such as the psychology of offenders, their developmental history, and the social structure in which they are embedded.

Forensic Handwriting Identification: Fundamental Concepts and Principles teaches the law enforcement and legal communities the major principles involved in handwriting and hand-printing analysis as applied to many types of investigations, including fraud, homicide, suicide, drug trafficking/clandestine labs, sexual offenses, threats and extortion, blackmail, arson, bombings, and theft.

From the Files of a Security Expert Witness guides the reader through the experience of testifying in court on security issues in civil litigation.

Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook contributes an anthropological perspective to quantitative methods.

This monograph provides an accessible introduction to the regional analysis of fractional diffusion processes.

This textbook offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to statistical physics, one of the core components of advanced undergraduate physics courses.

This book aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working across domains and research disciplines to measure, model, and visualize complex networks.

This book discusses mathematical models for various applications in economics, with a focus on non-linear dynamics.

This book focuses on the latest applications of nonlinear approaches in engineering and addresses a range of scientific problems.

Topological surgery is a mathematical technique used for creating new manifolds out of known ones.

This book briefly summarizes the current state of the art technologies and solutions for location and tracking (L&T) in wireless sensor networks (WSN), focusing on RSS-based schemes.

This book introduces the space community to the novel SpaceFibre protocol, developed under the guidance of the European Space Agency (ESA) as the forthcoming, high speed (Gbps) communication protocol for satellite on-board communication.

This book contains several contemporary topics in the areas of mathematical modelling and computation for complex systems.

This book represents the experience of successful researchers from four continents on a broad range of intelligent systems, and it hints how to avoid anticipated conflicts and problems during multidisciplinary innovative research from Industry 4.

This book provides a modern static imperfect bifurcation theory applicable to bifurcation phenomena of physical and engineering problems and fills the gap between the mathematical theory and engineering practice.

This monograph presents a technique, developed by the author, to design asymptotically exponentially stabilizing finite-dimensional boundary proportional-type feedback controllers for nonlinear parabolic-type equations.

This book presents several aspects of research on mathematics that have significant applications in engineering, modelling and social matters, discussing a number of current and future social issues and problems in which mathematical tools can be beneficial.

  This book gathers the most essential results, including recent ones, on linear-quadratic optimal control problems, which represent an important aspect of stochastic control.

This book is aimed to make careful analysis to various mathematical problems derived from shock reflection by using the theory of partial differential equations.

This book systematically presents the most recent progress in stability and control of impulsive systems with delays.

This book presents the dynamic modeling and attitude control of flexible spacecraft with time-varying parameters.

This book introduces the application of nonlinear dynamics theory for driving system of electric vehicle and hybrid electric vehicle respectively.

This book intends to introduce some recent results on passivity of complex dynamical networks with single weight and multiple weights.

This book is targeted towards cybersecurity professionals (especially those dealing with cloud security) or any stakeholders dealing with cybersecurity who want to understand the next level of security infrastructure using blockchain.

This is the first book devoted to chimera states - peculiar partial synchronization patterns in networks.

This book highlights current research into virtual tutoring software and presents a case study of the design and application of a social tutor for children with autism.

This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards.

The second edition of the book includes a new chapter on the study of composition operators on the Hardy space and their complete characterization by Gordon and Hedenmalm.

This book explores recent advances in the Internet of things (IoT) via advanced technologies and provides an overview of most aspects which are relevant for advance secure, distributed, decentralized blockchain technology in the Internet of things, their applications, and industry IoT.

This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches used in the field of urban analysis.