While gun design has undergone only minimal change over the centuries, investigative tools surrounding firearm use have grown significantly in sophistication.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding, IMACC 2015, held at Oxford, UK, in December 2015.
This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.
The revised tenth edition of this core textbook provides an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and comparing the systems of six of the world's countries - each representative of a different type of legal system.
The main goal of this book is to systematically address the mathematical methods that are applied in the study of synchronization of infinite-dimensional evolutionary dissipative or partially dissipative systems.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2023, which took place in October 2023 in Athens, Greece.
This book provides an innovative approach to learning dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, emphasizing a consistent problem-solving framework designed to help students understand the subject while building and reinforcing the mathematical tools needed to bridge the gap between physical intuition and quantitative results.
This book focuses on picturing B-IoT techniques from a few perspectives, which are architecture, key technologies, security and privacy, service models and framework, practical use cases and more.
The volume includes papers presented at the International KES Conference on Human Centred Intelligent Systems 2023 (KES HCIS 2023), held in Rome, Italy on June 14-16, 2023.
In recent years, tremendous research has been devoted to the design of database systems for real-time applications, called real-time database systems (RTDBS), where transactions are associated with deadlines on their completion times, and some of the data objects in the database are associated with temporal constraints on their validity.
The two-volume proceedings CCIS 1613 + 1614 constitute revised selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2022, which was held in Kurnool, India in April 2022.
This book contains original, peer-reviewed research articles from the 5th International Conference on Recent Trends in Machine Learning, IoT, Smart Cities, and Applications, held in Hyderabad, India on 28-29 March 2024.
A unifying system-theoretic view of adaptation in dynamical systems for researchers and graduates in cybernetics, mathematical modelling and neuroscience.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Modelling and Mining Networks, WAW 2024, held in Warsaw, Poland, during June 3-6, 2024.
Linear stochastic systems are successfully used to provide mathematical models for real processes in fields such as aerospace engineering, communications, manufacturing, finance and economy.
The three-volume set LNCS 15338, 15339 and 15340 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 41st Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2024, held during July 1-5, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland.
The purpose of this book is to illustrate the fundamental concepts of complexity and complex behavior and the best methods to characterize this behavior by means of their applications to some current research topics from within the fields of fusion, earth and solar plasmas.
The second edition of Private Policing details the substantial involvement of private agents and organisations involved in policing beyond the public police.
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 constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cryptology and Security in Latin America, LATINCRYPT 2019, held in Santiago di Chile, Chile, in October 2019.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2024, held in Petrovac, Montenegro, during September 16-20, 2024.
This book demonstrates the theoretical value and practical significance of systems science and its logic of thinking by presenting a rigorously developed foundation-a tool for intuitive reasoning, which is supported by both theory and empirical evidence, as well as practical applications in business decision making.
This book systematically establishes the almost periodic theory of dynamic equations and presents applications on time scales in fuzzy mathematics and uncertainty theory.
Volume 7 of this classic collection presents a comprehensive index to the first six volumes, providing quick and easy access to the data in this exhaustive resource, and completing the set.
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the First EAI International Conference on Sustainable Energy for Smart Cities, SESC 2029, held as part of the Smart City 360(deg) Summit event in Braga, Portugal, in December 2019.
The two-volume proceedings CCIS 1613 + 1614 constitute revised selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2022, which was held in Kurnool, India in April 2022.
This book describes a user-friendly, evolutionary algorithms-based framework for estimating data-driven models for a wide class of dynamical systems, including linear and nonlinear ones.
We already observe the positive effects of AI in almost every field, and foresee its potential to help address our sustainable development goals and the urgent challenges for the preservation of the environment.
Ramsey theory is a relatively "e;new,"e; approximately 100 year-old direction of fascinating mathematical thought that touches on many classic fields of mathematics such as combinatorics, number theory, geometry, ergodic theory, topology, combinatorial geometry, set theory, and measure theory.