Information theory

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 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2024, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, on August 26, 2024.

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 is the first book on secure quantum network coding, which integrates quantum cryptography into quantum communication.

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

This volume constitutes refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2021, held as a virtual event in June 2021.

The ideal code review process differs from organization to organization, but the needs all boil down to the same foundational factors.

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.

Das Buch gibt eine umfassende Einführung in moderne angewandte Kryptografie.

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 book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2024, held in Umea, Sweden, during August 27-30, 2024.

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 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing, ANTIC 2024, held in Varanasi, India, during December 19-21, 2024.

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.

A coherent and comprehensive theory of visual pattern classification with quantitative models, verifiable predictions and extensive empirical evidence.

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 constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Communication Technologies for Vehicles, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains/Nets4Aircraft 2018, held in Madrid, Spain, in May 2018.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2019.

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 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th China Conference on Machine Translation, CCMT 2024, which took place in Xiamen, China, during November 8-10, 2024.

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.

Big Data Application Architecture Pattern Recipes provides an insight into heterogeneous infrastructures, databases, and visualization and analytics tools used for realizing the architectures of big data solutions.

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 constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks, SCN 2018, held in Amalfi, Italy, in September 2018.

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.

Attacks take place everyday with computers connected to the internet, because of worms, viruses or due to vulnerable software.

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.