Cybernetics and systems theory

This book provides readers with a valuable reference on cyber weapons and, in particular,  viruses, software and hardware Trojans.

This book is a short primer in engineering mathematics with a view on applications in nonlinear control theory.

Neural Approximations for Optimal Control and Decision provides a comprehensive methodology for the approximate solution of functional optimization problems using neural networks and other nonlinear approximators where the use of traditional optimal control tools is prohibited by complicating factors like non-Gaussian noise, strong nonlinearities, large dimension of state and control vectors, etc.

This book presents cutting-edge research on innovative human systems integration and human-machine interaction, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and automation, as well as computational modeling and simulation.

This book provides step-by-step explanations of successful implementations and practical applications of machine learning.

This monograph is a comprehensive and cohesive exposition of power-law statistics.

This book contains all refereed papers accepted during the tenth edition of the conference that took place at the Cite Internationale Universitaire de Paris on December 12-13, 2019.

This book introduces researchers and practitioners to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and its applications in the built environment.

This book describes new circuits and systems for implantable wireless neural monitoring systems and explains the design of a batteryless, remotely-powered implantable micro-system, designed for continuous neural monitoring.

The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe.

Modern computer power and high-precision observational data have greatly improved the reliability of meteoroid stream models.

The chapters in this volume, and the volume itself, celebrate the life and research of Roberto Tempo, a leader in the study of complex networked systems, their analysis and control under uncertainty, and robust designs.

This book details the simulation and optimization of integer and fractional-order chaotic systems, and how they can be implemented in the analog and digital domains using FPAAs and FPGAs.

This book discusses a broad range of cyber security issues, addressing global concerns regarding cyber security in the modern era.

This book examines serial homicidal poisonings in the modern era, to improve our contemporary understanding of poisons, poisoners, and investigation.

This brief explores wildlife crime and its international and culture-specific combat in South Africa from a green psychology perspective, focusing on a specific method of forensic trace recovery by analysing and evaluating the use of gelatine lifters.

This book focuses on the latest approaches and methods in fundamental mathematics and mechanics, and discusses the practical application of abstract mathematical approaches, such as differential geometry, and differential and difference equations in solid mechanics, hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, optimization, decision-making theory and control theory.

This easy-to-understand book discusses applications of current technologies and the foundations for their extension into emerging areas in the future.

The main purpose of the book is to give a rigorous introduction to the most important and useful solution methods of various types of stochastic control problems for jump diffusions and their applications.

Observer Design for Nonlinear Systems deals with the design of observers for the large class of nonlinear continuous-time models.

This book addresses the challenging topic of modeling adaptive networks, which often manifest inherently complex behavior.

This book highlights cutting-edge research in the field of network science, offering scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners a unique update on the latest advances in theory and a multitude of applications.

In the face of growing challenges, we need modes of thinking that allow us to not only grasp complexity but also perform it.

This textbook for courses in Embedded Systems introduces students to necessary concepts, through a hands-on approach.

This book presents the proceedings of the fifth International Symposium on Modelling and Implementation of Complex Systems (MISC 2018).

The book faces the interplay among dynamical properties of semigroups, analytical properties of infinitesimal generators and geometrical properties of Koenigs functions.

Integrable models have a fascinating history with many important discoveries that dates back to the famous Kepler problem of planetary motion.

This book shows how open source intelligence can be a powerful tool for combating crime by linking local and global patterns to help understand how criminal activities are connected.

This monograph discusses the issues of stability and the control of impulsive systems on hybrid time domains, with systems presented on discrete-time domains, continuous-time domains, and hybrid-time domains (time scales).

This book discusses fundamental and high-level concepts relating to intelligent computing and communications in the context of distributed computing, big data, high performance computing and the Internet of Things.

This book covers how Internet of Things (IoT) has a role in shaping the future of our communities.

This book features papers presented during a special session on dynamical systems, mathematical physics, and partial differential equations.

Fractional equations and models play an essential part in the description of anomalous dynamics in complex systems.

The dream of mathematical modeling is of systems evolving in a continuous, deterministic, predictable way.

This book offers the first comprehensive coverage of digital design techniques to expand the power-performance tradeoff well beyond that allowed by conventional wide voltage scaling.

This book describes the recent innovation of deep in-memory architectures for realizing AI systems that operate at the edge of energy-latency-accuracy trade-offs.

This is a textbook on chaos and nonlinear dynamics, written by applied mathematicians for applied mathematicians.

The book covers the latest theoretical results and sophisticated applications in the field of variable-structure systems and sliding-mode control.

This book presents a compilation of state-of-the-art work on biomedical and cyber-physical systems in connection with the Internet of Things, and successfully blends theory and practice.

This book is based on the 18 tutorials presented during the 28th workshop on Advances in Analog Circuit Design.

This book focuses on the emerging advances in distributed communication systems, big data, intelligent computing and Internet of Things, presenting state-of-the-art research in frameworks, algorithms, methodologies, techniques and applications associated with data engineering and wireless distributed communication technologies.

This collection of peer-reviewed workshop papers provides comprehensive coverage of cutting-edge research into topological approaches to data analysis and visualization.

This book is devoted to control of finite and infinite dimensional processes with continuous-time and discrete time control, focusing on suppression problems and new methods of adaptation applicable for systems with sliding motions only.

This work presents recent mathematical methods in the area of optimal control with a particular emphasis on the computational aspects and applications.

This book proposes a synergistic framework to help IP vendors to protect hardware IP privacy and integrity from design, optimization, and evaluation perspectives.

This comprehensive book is primarily intended for researchers, engineers, mathematicians and computer security specialists who are interested in multimedia security, steganography, encryption, and related research fields.

This book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the concept of "e;smart villages"e; Written by an authoritative group of scholars, it discusses various aspects that are essential to fostering the development of successful smart villages.

This book reports on the development and assessment of a novel framework for studying neural interactions (the connectome) and their dynamics (the chronnectome).

The fifth edition of the best-selling Principles in Forensic Toxicology continues in the tradition of excellence in academic publishing.

This book describes and analyzes in detail the encoding effort and the encoding tool usage applied to 3D-HEVC depth map coding.