Cybernetics and systems theory

Maximizing reader insights into the roles of intelligent agents in networks, air traffic and emergency departments, this volume focuses on congestion in systems where safety and security are at stake, devoting special attention to applying game theoretic analysis of congestion to: protocols in wired and wireless networks; power generation, air transportation and emergency department overcrowding.

Increased scrutiny on the part of the general public, media, and government has warranted a reexamination of corporate responsibilities, standards of accountability, the company's role in its local and extended community, and its ethical position in our society and culture.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the XV Multidisciplinary International Congress on Science and Technology (CIT 2020), held in Quito, Ecuador, on 26-30 October 2020, proudly organized by Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE in collaboration with GDEON.

Current developments in air pollution modeling are explored as a series of contributions from researchers at the forefront of their field.

In today's ever evolving digital landscape, cybersecurity professionals are in high demand.

Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice, Sixteenth Edition, offers criminal justice professionals the training they need to recognize the constitutional principles that apply to their daily work.

An unprecedented look at the evolution of American police, from filling their intended role as peacekeepers and guardians of citizen rights to calling themselves-and acting primarily as-"e;law enforcement officers.

This book presents recent advances towards the goal of enabling efficient implementation of machine learning models on resource-constrained systems, covering different application domains.

Based on extensive analysis of real-time, authentic crisis encounters collected in the UK and US, Crisis Talk: Negotiating with Individuals in Crisis sheds light on the relatively hidden world of communication between people in crisis and the professionals whose job it is to help them.

This book provides a guide for those looking to understand the potential of blockchain technology and its impact on various industries.

Digital Ultraviolet and Infrared Photography discusses the growing number of applications of ultraviolet and infrared photography.

This volume spans a wide range of technical disciplines and technologies, including complex systems, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, energy, telecommunications, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, and computer science.

Medical Illustration in the Courtroom: Proving Injury, Causation, and Damages educates the reader on how to communicate science visually-in personal injury, medical malpractice, criminal, and forensic cases-by creating art that utilizes medical records, radiographs, and computer software.

This fascinating new title offers an ethnographical investigation of contemporary police culture based on extensive field work across a range of ranks and units in the UK's police force.

This book gathers outstanding papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Data Science and Applications (ICDSA 2024), organized by Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS) and Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India, from 17 to 19 July 2024.

This fascinating book written by Ali Sanayei and Otto E.

The theory of nonlinear oscillations and stability of motion is a fundamental part of the study of numerous real world phenomena.

This book describes the state of the art and future prospects of the most important bio-medicolegal subdisciplines in the post-genomic framework of personalized medicine.

3D bioprinting is an emerging innovative technology that involves the fabrication of essential 3D functional biomedical constructs by combining cells and biomaterials with vital growth and differentiation factors.

Those tasked with investigating crime scenes come from a variety of backgrounds and varying levels of experience.

Microextraction Techniques in Analytical Toxicology provides the information readers need to include about cutting-edge sample preparation techniques into their everyday analytical practice, including comprehensive information about principles and state-of-the-art microextraction sample preparation techniques for the analysis of drugs and poisons in biological specimens, especially in forensic and clinical settings.

This book discusses several exciting research topics and applications in the intelligent Heterogenous Networks (Het-Net) and Internet of Things (IoT) era.

Wind energy systems are central contributors to renewable energy generation, and their technology is continuously improved and updated.

This conference discussed the application of communication and IoT engineering in the era of smart technologies from the perspective of disciplinary integration, combining the theory and relevant algorithms of IoT and smart technologies.

These proceedings from the Seventh International Conference of Systems Engineering (CIIS 2024) present scientific and technological innovations by leading academicians, researchers, and experts, establishing a regional forum for discussions on cutting-edge research.

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) has enabled rapid enhancements for applications, not only in home and environment scenarios, but also in factory automation.

Neural Network Parallel Computing is the first book available to the professional market on neural network computing for optimization problems.

The study of nonlinear localized excitations is a long-standing challenge for research in basic and applied science, as well as engineering, due to their importance in understanding and predicting phenomena arising in nonlinear and complex systems, but also due to their potential for the development and design of novel applications.

The book presents recent applications and developments in the field of control of industrial systems, covering a wide range of modeling and feedback control using various robust approaches such as fuzzy systems, sliding mode control, and H-infinity.

This book is an in-depth, evidence-based guide to interviewing suspects with specific vulnerabilities.

Globalization of the integrated circuit (IC) supply chains led to many potential vulnerabilities.

Robert Rosen was not only a biologist, he was also a brilliant mathematician whose extraordinary contributions to theoretical biology were tremendous.

"Die Autorin hat eine sehr hilfreiche Einführung geschrieben, der es gelingt, einen weiten Bogen um das Fach Supervision zu schlagen und eine solide Orientierung zu geben.

This book discusses the generalized Duffing equation and its periodic perturbations, with special emphasis on the existence and multiplicity of periodic solutions, subharmonic solutions and different approaches to prove rigorously the presence of chaotic dynamics.

The history of computer-aided face recognition dates to the 1960s, yet the problem of automatic face recognition - a task that humans perform routinely and effortlessly in our daily lives - still poses great challenges, especially in unconstrained conditions.

Knowledge about policing has been produced and disseminated unevenly so that our understanding comes from a skewed emphasis on the Anglo-American experience.

This book is devoted to Prof.

This unique book discusses and explains the practical aspects of crime reduction partnerships from a police officer's perspective.

This book considers a problem of block-oriented nonlinear dynamic system identification in the presence of random disturbances.

This book presents innovative and interdisciplinary applications of advanced technologies.

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

This book presents a collection of new articles written by world-leading experts and active researchers to present their recent finding and progress in the new area of chaotic systems and dynamics, regarding emerging subjects of unconventional chaotic systems and their complex dynamics.

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.

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This book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at the International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing (ICRTC 2024), organized by SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ghaziabad, held in Delhi, India, from July 5-6, 2024.