Cybernetics and systems theory

The third edition of Introduction to Environmental Forensics is a state-of-the-art reference for the practicing environmental forensics consultant, regulator, student, academic, and scientist, with topics including compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA), advanced multivariate statistical techniques, surrogate approaches for contaminant source identification and age dating, dendroecology, hydrofracking, releases from underground storage tanks and piping, and contaminant-transport modeling for forensic applications.

This book presents scientific metrics and its applications for approaching scientific findings in the field of Physics, Economics and Scientometrics.

Public Corruption in the United States provides a comprehensive view of public corruption, including discussion on its types, methods, trends, challenges, and overall impact.

FRAUD AUDITING AND FORENSIC ACCOUNTING With the responsibility of detecting and preventing fraud falling heavily on the accounting profession, every accountant needs to recognize fraud and learn the tools and strategies necessary to catch it in time.

This book aims at providing a view of the current trends in the development of research on Synthesis and Control of Discrete Event Systems.

This book offers a detailed investigation of breakdowns in traffic and transportation networks.

This updated book presents research on how Internet of Things plays a part in shaping the future of our communities.

This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations.

Professor Chadwick Dearing Oliver has made major intellectual contributions to forest science and natural resources management.

This book presents a concise introduction to piecewise deterministic Markov processes (PDMPs), with particular emphasis on their applications to biological models.

This book explores the topological properties of connected and path-connected solution sets for nonlinear equations in Banach spaces, focusing on the distinction between these concepts.

For as long as we have been researching human memory, psychologists have been investigating how people remember and forget.

This monograph is an up-to-date presentation of the analysis and design of singular Markovian jump systems (SMJSs) in which the transition rate matrix of the underlying systems is generally uncertain, partially unknown and designed.

In recent years MATLAB(R), together with SIMULINK(R) and the many associated toolboxes, has became a standard in the fields of engineering, simulation and numerical calculation.

This book stems from lectures that were delivered at the three-week Advanced Instructional School on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems held at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, from 4-23 December 2017, with the support of the National Centre for Mathematics, National Board for Higher Mathematics, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.

Resilience Engineering (RE) studies have successfully identified and described many instances of resilient performance in high hazard sectors as well as in the far more frequent cases where people and organisations cope with the uncertainties of daily operations.

This book provides a stocktake and comparative socio-legal analysis of law enforcement cooperation strategies in four different regions of the world: the European Union (EU), North America, Greater China and Australasia.

This book covers the latest advances in applying agent-based modelling in social sciences.

All you need to know about deploying VoIP protocols in one comprehensive and highly practical reference - Now updated with coverage on SIP and the IMS infrastructure This book provides a comprehensive and practical overview of the technology behind Internet Telephony (IP), providing essential information to Network Engineers, Designers, and Managers who need to understand the protocols.

This book uses digital technologies for the sustainable development and productivity of the agricultural sector.

This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities.

Dynamical models on graphs or random graphs are increasingly used in applied sciences as mathematical tools to study complex systems whose exact structure is too complicated to be known in detail.

This book, the 14th of 15 related monographs on Cubic Dynamical Systems, discusses crossing and product cubic systems with a self-linear and crossing-quadratic product vector field.

In The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future, Theodore John Rivers explores the changing relationship between technology and religion.

This book focuses on the stability analysis of Markovian jump systems (MJSs) with various settings and discusses its applications in several different areas.

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 book highlights the potential research areas of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), such as the research in the field of modern computing and communication technologies that deal with different aspects of data analysis and network connectivity to develop solution for the emerging real-time information system challenges; contains a brief discussion about the progression from information systems to intelligent information systems, development of autonomous systems, real-time implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), fundamentals of intelligent information systems and analytical activities; helps to gain a significant research knowledge on modern communication technologies from the novel research contributions dealing with different aspects of communication systems, which showcase effective technological solutions that can be used for the implementation of novel distributed wireless communication systems.

The Cyber-Physical System (CPS) relates to many other popularized technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT, IIoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M), Industry 4.

This book focusses on recommendation, behavior, and anomaly, among of social media analysis.

This book addresses emerging issues concerning the integration of artificial intelligence systems in our daily lives.

Throughout history, there has been an intrinsic need for humans to detect deception in other humans.

Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem.

This book presents methods for advancing green IoT sensor networks and IoT devices.

This book disseminates the latest results and envisages new challenges in the application of mathematics to various practical situations in biology, epidemiology, and ecology.

The digital revolution over the past several decades has advanced every facet of evidence detection, photography, optimization, and interpretation.

It is unlikely that any frontier of economics/econometrics is being pushed faster, further than that of computational techniques.

Something is missing in contemporary health and social care.

In 1967 the University of Toronto School of Library Science held a two-day colloquium on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, the first public discussion of the new cataloguing code.

Effective Police Supervision, 9th ed.

Currently, reliability issues are not addressed effectively in new product development.

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

Applications are the parts of computer systems which directly satisfy users' requirements for infor- mation processing.

There's no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjectsForensics Demystified explains forensic science in a logical progression from evidence collection through analysis and finally to the scientist actually testifying in court.

This book highlights the latest advancements, innovation, technology, and real-world challenges and solutions related to smart critical infrastructure.

WAVE TURBULENCE is a state of a system of many simultaneously excited and interacting waves characterized by an energy distribution which is not in any sense close to thermodynamic equilibrium.