Cybernetics and systems theory

This book focuses on the development of Melnikov-type methods applied to high dimensional dynamical systems governed by ordinary differential equations.

Complexity is emerging as a post-Newtonian paradigm for approaching a large body of phenomena of concern at the crossroads of physical, engineering, environmental, life and human sciences from a unifying point of view.

The dynamics of complex systems can clarify the creation of structures in Nature.

This unique book presents a different point of view on the fundamental theory of global transversality, resonance and chaotic dynamics in n-dimensional nonlinear dynamic systems.

This book contains the Proceedings of the 2007 Conference of the Italian Systems Society.

This is a sequel to the author's book entitled "e;Entropy Demystified"e; (Published by World Scientific, 2007).

A System of Systems (SoS), as distinct from a system of parts, is a system comprised of pre-existing autonomous and interdependent systems.

This book provides a self-contained presentation of the physical and mathematical laws governing complex systems.

The book contains the Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Italian Systems Society.

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 includes the original, peer reviewed research articles from the 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics, Cognition and Machine Learning Applications (ICCCMLA 2020), held in August, 2020 at Goa, India.

This book introduces the technological innovations of robotic vehicles.

This book introduces readers to recent advancements in financial technologies.

This book intends to introduce some recent results on passivity of complex dynamical networks with single weight and multiple weights.

This book explores recent advances in the Internet of things (IoT) via advanced technologies and provides an overview of most aspects which are relevant for advance secure, distributed, decentralized blockchain technology in the Internet of things, their applications, and industry IoT.

This book captures recent research on managing mobile technologies.

This book on complexity science comprises a collection of chapters on methods and principles from a wide variety of disciplinary fields - from physics and chemistry to biology and the social sciences.

While the possible depletion of energy sources has been emphasized in most literatures, this book aims to show that the increase of entropy in the biosphere, resulting since the dawn of industrial era, is a cause for urgent concern.

In almost 60 articles this book reviews the current state of second-order cybernetics and investigates which new research methods second-order cybernetics can offer to tackle wicked problems in science and in society.

The main goal is to offer to readers a panorama of recent progress in nonlinear physics, complexity and transport with attractive chapters readable by a broad audience.

This book provides a clear, understandable, and motivated account on the subject that spans both conventional and modern materials about discrete event systems, material that, up to now, has been presented in the literature in different fields, such as the graph theory, the probability theory, the automata's theory, and the queueing theory.

This book contains an evidence-based pedagogic guide to enable any motivated teaching/training professional to be able to teach effectively and creatively.

This book covers a wide spectrum of systems such as linear and nonlinear multivariable systems as well as control problems such as disturbance, uncertainty and time-delays.

Prepared by Patrick J.

This book deals with several types of multi-dimensional control problems in the face of data uncertainty for vector cases-multi-dimensional multi-objective control problem with uncertain objective functionals, uncertain constraint functionals, and uncertain objective as well as constraint functionals, uncertain multi-dimensional multi-objective control problem with semi-infinite constraints, uncertain dual multi-dimensional multi-objective variational control problem, and second-order PDE&PDI constrained robust optimization problem.

The book is a collection of peer-reviewed best selected research papers presented at the International Conference on Data Intelligence and Cognitive Informatics (ICDICI 2021), organized by SCAD College of Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli, India, during July 6-7, 2022.

This book focuses on the design, informatics, and energy sustainability of automated and electric vehicles.

This book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2022), held in Goa, India, on July 29-30, 2022.

The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacities such as Shanghai.

This book investigates the disagreement behavior analysis problems for signed networks in the presence of both cooperative and antagonistic interactions among agents.

The book focuses on analysis and design for positive stochastic jump systems.

This book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2022), held in Goa, India, on 29-30 July 2022.

This book contains papers presented at the 2021 International Conference on Smart Technologies and Systems for Internet of Things, held on November 26-27, 2021, in Shanghai, China.

This book highlights the solution algorithms and characteristic analysis methods of fractional-order chaotic systems.

The book features original papers from International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Social Networking (ICPCSN 2022), organized by NSIT, Salem, India during 3 - 4 March 2022.

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for "e;Smart Master Planning"e; for all metropolises, megacities and metacities as well as at subcity zonal and community and neighborhood level.

The book features original papers from International Conference on Expert Clouds and Applications (ICOECA 2022), organized by GITAM School of Technology, Bangalore, India, during 3-4 February 2022.

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for "e;Smart Master Planning"e; for all metropolises, megacities and meta cities as well as at sub-city zonal and community and neighborhood level.

This book covers two broad domains: state-of-the-art research in GaN HEMT and Ga2O3 HEMT.

This first book focuses on uncertain graph and network optimization.

This book highlights various solutions for the required transition of coastal cities due to +1m sea level rise.

This book highlights a research-based design proposal which has the purpose of relieving from lack of global food supply.

This book presents an overview of the science of superconducting materials.

This book aims to systematically review and design different intelligent control algorithms for the small-signal stability assessment of HPS.

The book covers a variety of feasible technology options, both wired and wireless, to enable 6G connectivity in rural and remote regions.

This handbook covers tested and proven DNA forensic testing methodologies, forensic bioinformatics techniques, case studies and current forensic legal framework for investigation of variety of crimes and provides a clinching evidence for speedy justice.

This book is in honor of Yasuhiko Takahara, a first-class researcher who has been active for some 50 years at the global level in systems research.

This book is in honor of Yasuhiko Takahara, a first-class researcher who has been active for some 50 years at the global level in systems research.

This book presents high-quality research papers presented at the Second International Conference on Smart Computing and Cyber Security: Strategic Foresight, Security Challenges and Innovation (SMARTCYBER 2021) held during June 16-17, 2021, in the Department of Smart Computing, Kyungdong University, Global Campus, South Korea.

This book highlights recent advancements and innovations in trenchless technology via the adoption of combined micro-tunnelling and pipe-jacking techniques.