Cybernetics and systems theory

This book provides comprehensive discussion on key topics related to the usage and deployment of AI in urban transportation systems including drones.

Theoretical advances in dynamical-systems theory and their applications to pattern-forming processes in the sciences and engineering are discussed in this volume that resulted from the conference Patterns in Dynamics held in honor of Bernold Fiedler, in Berlin, July 25-29, 2016.

This book presents up-to-date research developments and novel methodologies on semi-Markovian jump systems (S-MJS).

This book discusses the main features, fundamental principles, and application areas of blockchain technology.

The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on finance, with a special focus on stock markets.

This book collects recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems.

This book introduces to blockchain and deep learning and explores and illustrates the current and new trends that integrate them.

This edited book covers ongoing research in both theory and practical applications of using deep learning for social media data.

This book presents state-of-the-art solution methods and applications of stochastic optimal control.

The book provides an examination of how fog security is changing the information technology industry and will continue to in the next decade.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 10th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (EWSHM), held in Palermo, Italy on July 4-7, 2022.

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 aims to present a survey of a large class of nonlinear dynamical systems exhibiting mixed-mode oscillations (MMOs).

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.

This book focuses on the fundamentals of blockchain technology along with the means and methods of its integration with Internet of Things (IoT).

This richly illustrated two-volume book offers a comprehensive and essential reference guide for veterinary pathologists and clinical veterinarians interested in performing animal necropsies for forensic casework.

This monograph bridges the gap between the nonlinear predictor as a concept and as a practical tool, presenting a complete theory of the application of predictor feedback to time-invariant, uncertain systems with constant input delays and/or measurement delays.

This book reports on cutting-edge research and technology aimed at increasing the efficiency of production processes and to foster the implementation of Industry 4.

This book is intended for readers who are interested in the design of robust and reliable electronic digital systems.

This book acquaints readers with recent developments in dynamical systems theory and its applications, with a strong focus on the control and estimation of nonlinear systems.

This book, published in two volumes, embodies the proceedings of the 15th European Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis (ACD 2019) held in Bologna, Italy, in November 2019.

In recent years, new applications on computer-aided technologies for telemedicine have emerged.

This book presents a collection of research findings and proposals on computer science and computer engineering, introducing readers to essential concepts, theories, and applications.

This authored monograph presents a study on fundamental limits and robustness of stability and stabilization of time-delay systems, with an emphasis on time-varying delay, robust stabilization, and newly emerged areas such as networked control and multi-agent systems.

This book covers a variety of topics in the field of industrial engineering, with a special focus on research and industrial applications aimed at both improving quality of processes and products and contributing to a sustainable economy.

This brief examines mathematical models in nonsmooth mechanics and nonregular electrical circuits, including evolution variational inequalities, complementarity systems, differential inclusions, second-order dynamics, Lur'e systems and Moreau's sweeping process.

This book delivers stimulating input for a broad range of researchers, from geographers and ecologists to psychologists interested in spatial perception and physicists researching in complex systems.

This volume presents an accessible overview of mathematical control theory and analysis of PDEs, providing young researchers a snapshot of these active and rapidly developing areas.

This book presents theories of deformable elastic strings and rods and their application to broad classes of problems.

This book analyzes the updated principles and applications of nonlinear approaches to solve engineering and physics problems.

This book provides an introduction to Swarm Robotics, which is the application of methods from swarm intelligence to robotics.

As the title of the book suggests, the topics of this book are organized into two parts.

This book highlights the latest design and development of security issues and various defences to construct safe, secure and trusted Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).

This book introduces characteristic features of the protein structure prediction (PSP) problem.

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.

Here is an accurate and readable translation of a seminal article by Henri Poincare that is a classic in the study of dynamical systems popularly called chaos theory.

This third edition of the highly successful textbook, acclaimed for its comprehensiveness, accuracy, and excellent illustrations and photographs now comes with updated coverage plus numerous didactical improvements:The number of figures has notably increased, with about one third of them now presented in color.

The book provides a comprehensive introduction and a novel mathematical foundation of the field of information geometry with complete proofs and detailed background material on measure theory, Riemannian geometry and Banach space theory.

This book collects contributions to the XXIII international conference "e;Nonlinear dynamics of electronic systems"e;.

This book deals with critical infrastructure safety analysis based on reliability modelling of multistate ageing system.

This volume presents a collection of essays from experienced crime analysts from around the world.

This book creates the emergence of disruptive technologies that have led to a significant change in the role of mathematics and statistics for problem solving, with the use of sophisticated software and hardware in solving complex systems and process.

This book presents the proceedings of the 2020 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics for IoT Security and Privacy (SPIoT-2021), online conference, on 30 October 2021.

Distributed Coordination Theory for Robot Teams develops control algorithms to coordinate the motion of autonomous teams of robots in order to achieve some desired collective goal.

The research presented in this book shows how combining deep neural networks with a special class of fuzzy logical rules and multi-criteria decision tools can make deep neural networks more interpretable - and even, in many cases, more efficient.

This book unifies a large part of the vast body of Husserlian phenomenology using a relatively simple set of dynamical laws.

This volume arose from a semester at CIRM-Luminy on "e;Thermodynamic Formalism: Applications to Probability, Geometry and Fractals"e; which brought together leading experts in the area to discuss topical problems and recent progress.

This book reflects the latest developments in variable structure systems (VSS) and sliding mode control (SMC), highlighting advances in various branches of the VSS/SMC field, e.

This volume collects the edited and reviewed contribution presented in the 7th iTi Conference in Bertinoro, covering fundamental and applied aspects in turbulence.

This book provides a range of application areas of data and knowledge management and their solutions for the fields related to the convergence of information and communication technology (ICT), healthcare, and telecommunication services.