Cybernetics and systems theory

Cell Phone Location Evidence for Legal Professionals: Understanding Cell Phone Location Evidence from the Warrant to the Courtroom is a guide, in plain language, for digital forensics professionals, attorneys, law enforcement professionals and students interested in the sources, methods and evidence used to perform forensic data analysis of cell phones, call detail records, real time ping records and geo-location data obtained from cellular carriers and cell phones.

Wrongful convictions are the result of faulty or false scientific evidence in 50% of the cases.

Unlike other books, courses and training that expect an analyst to piece together individual instructions into a cohesive investigation, Investigating Windows Systems provides a walk-through of the analysis process, with descriptions of the thought process and analysis decisions along the way.

Forensic Odontology: Principles and Practice details the aspects necessary to become an accomplished forensic odontologist, including an illustration of the skills necessary to become an expert witness.

Hiding Behind the Keyboard: Uncovering Covert Communication Methods with Forensic Analysis exposes the latest electronic covert communication techniques used by cybercriminals, along with the needed investigative methods for identifying them.

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

Police Psychology: New Trends in Forensic Psychological Science is a relatively new specialty that can be broadly defined as the application of psychological principles and methods to assist law enforcement.

Mass Identifications: Statistical Methods in Forensic Genetics summarizes the state-of-the-art in the field, including methods and recent development in genetics (sequencing).

Threat and Violence Interventions: The Effective Application of Influence evaluates threat and violence risk for various levels of mental health practitioners, law enforcement officers, security professionals, human resource professionals, attorneys, and academics in forensic psychology, sociology, criminology and law.

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.

This book covers the range of methodological approaches, methods and tools currently used in various areas of building science and technology research and addresses the current lack of research-method literature in this field.

The book presents the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity (5GU 2018), which took place on December 4-5, 2018 in Nanjing, People's Republic of China.

This book is useful to engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and students in different branches of production, engineering, and systems sciences.

This book presents the latest research into CSS methods, uses, and results, as presented at the 2019 annual conference of the CSSSA.

This book includes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, which took place in Asan, Korea, on July 1-3, 2021.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 5:  Proceedings of the 39th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2021, the fourth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This text addresses systems with persistent memory that are common mathematical models used in the study of viscoelasticity and thermodynamics with memory.

This book outlines the recent advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and addresses how useful it is in achieving truly sustainable solutions.

This book is intended to be a little different from other books in its coverage.

This book presents recent theoretical advances in the analysis and synthesis of discrete-time switched systems under the time-dependent switching scheme, including stability and disturbance attenuation performance analysis, control and filtering, asynchronous switching, finite-time analysis and synthesis, and reachable set estimation.

The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

This book describes for readers the entire, interconnected complex of theoretical and practical aspects of designing and organizing the production of various electronic devices, the general and main distinguishing feature of which is the high speed of processing and transmitting of digital signals.

This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to complexity, combining ideas from areas like complex networks, cellular automata, multi-agent systems, self-organization and game theory.

This book reports on the latest knowledge concerning critical phenomena arising in fluid-structure interaction due to movement and/or deformation of bodies.