Cybernetics and systems theory

This book is a short, but complete, introduction to the Loewner equation and the SLEs, which are a family of random fractal curves, as well as the relevant background in probability and complex analysis.

Written by experts with a combined 50 years of experience teaching and researching in the field of domestic abuse, Intimate Partner Violence: Effective Procedure, Response, and Policy provides practical instruction for practitioners and lay people responding to domestic violence, as well as ideas for policymakers working to create solutions to the violence.

This book highlights technology trends and challenges that trace the evolution of antenna design, starting from 3rd generation phones and moving towards the latest release of LTE-A.

Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing.

Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual impact of police work on police officers, administrators, emergency communicators, and their families.

This book offers an introduction to a classical problem in ergodic theory and smooth dynamics, namely, the Kolmogorov-Bernoulli (non)equivalence problem, and presents recent results in this field.

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of thermodynamics.

This book addresses the multidisciplinary challenges in biodiversity conservation with a focus on wildlife crime and how forensic tools can be applied to protect species and preserve ecosystems.

Recent developments in analytical instrumentation have had an enormous influence on forensic analysis.

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The examination of human hairs in the forensic science setting is a highly specialist forensic discipline.

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.

This book comprises selected peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Industrial Automation and Smart Manufacturing (ICAIASM) 2019.

This textbook provides a concise, clear, and rigorous presentation of the dynamics of linear systems that delivers the necessary tools for the analysis and design of mechanical/ structural systems, regardless of their complexity.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview on the dynamics and coevolution in multi-level strategic interaction games.

This book presents the outcome of the European project "e;SERENA"e;, involving fourteen partners as international academics, technological companies, and industrial factories, addressing the design and development of a plug-n-play end-to-end cloud architecture, and enabling predictive maintenance of industrial equipment to be easily exploitable by small and medium manufacturing companies with a very limited data analytics experience.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of various aspects of the development of smart cities from a secure, trusted, and reliable data transmission perspective.

This book provides a comprehensive guideline on dynamic analysis and vibration control of axially moving systems.

This book presents a comprehensive and detailed study on iterative learning control (ILC) for systems with iteration-varying trial lengths.

This book includes new findings on socio-economic cyber systems control and development approaches based on AI and data-driven techniques.

The classical and quantum dynamics of conservative systems governs the behavior of much of the world around us - from the dynamics of galaxies to the vibration and electronic behavior of molecules and the dynamics of systems formed from or driven by laser radiation.

Dieses Lehrbuch soll Studierenden den Einstieg in die Gebiete der Forensik und Bioinformatik gleichermaßen erleichtern.

This book reports on the latest research and developments in the field of cybersecurity, particularly focusing on personal security and new methods for reducing human error and increasing cyber awareness, as well as innovative solutions for increasing the security of advanced Information Technology (IT) infrastructures.

This book focuses on the human aspects of wearable technologies and game design, which are often neglected.

This book focuses on distributed and economic Model Predictive Control (MPC) with applications in different fields.

This book deals with computational anatomy, an emerging discipline recognized in medical science as a derivative of conventional anatomy.

Complex Systems lie at the heart of a variety of large-scale phenomena of great significance - global warming, ice ages, water, poverty, pandemics - and this text uses these case studies as motivations and contexts to explore complex systems and related topics of nonlinear dynamics and power-law statistics.

This volume compiles eight recent surveys that present state-of-the-art results in the field of active matter at different scales, modeled by agent-based, kinetic, and hydrodynamic descriptions.

This monograph presents new theories and methods for fixed-time cooperative control of multi-agent systems.

This book discusses the latest advances in digital modeling systems (DMSs) and additive manufacturing (AM) technologies.

This book focuses on recent progress in complexity research based on the fundamental nonlinear dynamical and statistical theory of oscillations, waves, chaos, and structures far from equilibrium.

This book shows how Bohmian mechanics overcomes the need for a measurement postulate involving wave function collapse.

This handbook presents state-of-the-art research in reinforcement learning, focusing on its applications in the control and game theory of dynamic systems and future directions for related research and technology.

This study guide is designed for students taking courses in electrical circuit analysis.

This book reports on research and developments in human-technology interaction.

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This book presents the design and development of an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled, smart sensor to detect nitrate contamination in natural water.

This book presents state-of-the-art research on security and privacy- preserving for IoT and 5G networks and applications.

This book offers practical as well as conceptual knowledge of the latest trends, tools, techniques and methodologies of data analytics in smart cities.

The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "e;Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid"e;.

The 2nd edition of this book provides novel topics and studyies in boundaries of networks and Big Data Systems.

This book provides a synthesis for using IoT for indoor air quality assessment.

The mathematical models considered in this book can help to understand the swelling of mitochondria.

This book reports on cutting-edge research into innovative system interfaces, highlighting both lifecycle development and human-technology interaction, especially in virtual, augmented and mixed-reality systems.

This book reflects the outcome of contribution by the plural community and of the interactions between disciplines.

This book is devoted to the development of optimal control theory for finite dimensional systems governed by deterministic and stochastic differential equations driven by vector measures.

The book presents the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications, ICDEA 2017, held at the West University of Timisoara, Romania, under the auspices of the International Society of Difference Equations (ISDE), July 24 - 28, 2017.

This book offers an overview of current and recent methods for the analysis of the nonstationary processes, focusing on cyclostationary systems that are ubiquitous in various application fields.