Information theory

This volume of Statistical Physics consititutes the second part of Statistical Physics (Springer Series in Solid-State Science, Vols.

Flow line design is one of the major tasks in production management.

In order to obtain more reliable optimal solutions of concrete technical/economic problems, e.

How well is Nature simulated by the varied asymptotic models that imaginative scientists have invented?

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The idea of supersymmetry was originally introduced in relativistic quantum field theories as a generalization of Poincare symmetry.

The Blaubeuren Conference "e;Theory and Practice of Geometric Modeling"e; has become a meeting place for leading experts from industrial and academic research institutions, CAD system developers and experienced users to exchange new ideas and to discuss new concepts and future directions in geometric modeling.

Surface Acoustic Waves in Inhomogeneous Media covers almost all important problems of the interaction of different types of surface acoustic waves with surface inhomogeneities.

Since the second edition of this book came out in early 1997, the number of scientific papers published on the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) has increased from about 1500 to some 4000.

Based on a lecture course at the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), this text gives a rigorous introduction to many of the key ideas in nonlinear analysis, dynamical systems and bifurcation theory including catastrophe theory.

Erst die elektronische Signatur wird dem E-Commerce zum Durchbruch verhelfen.

Polymers are substances made of macromolecules formed by thousands of atoms organized in one (homopolymers) or more (copolymers) groups that repeat themselves to form linear or branched chains, or lattice structures.

Since the mid 1990s, data hiding has been proposed as an enabling technology for securing multimedia communication and is now used in various applications including broadcast monitoring, movie fingerprinting, steganography, video indexing and retrieval and image authentication.

Analysis of information transfer has found rapid adoption in neuroscience, where a highly dynamic transfer of information continuously runs on top of the brain's slowly-changing anatomical connectivity.

This treatment of molecular and atomic physics is primarily meant as a textbook.

This book offers a self-contained introduction to the theory of guiding functions methods, which can be used to study the existence of periodic solutions and their bifurcations in ordinary differential equations, differential inclusions and in control theory.

This book focuses mainly on fractional Brownian fields and their extensions.

Due to the increasing security and reliability demand of actual industrial process control systems, the study on fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of dynamic systems has received considerable attention.

Why writing a book about a specialized task of the large topic of complex systems?

Materials sciences relate the macroscopic properties of materials to their microscopic structure and postulate the need for holistic multiscale research.

Society is complicated.

The thesis deals with averaging dynamics in a multiagent networked system, which is a main mechanism for diffusing the information over such networks.

This monograph introduces an exact model for a critical spin chain with arbitrary spin S, which includes the Haldane--Shastry model as the special case S=1/2.

What are the principles that keep our society together?

This concise primer (based on lectures given at summer schools on complex systems and on a masters degree course in complex systems modeling) will provide graduate students and newcomers to the field with the basic knowledge of the concepts and methods of statistical physics and its potential for application to interdisciplinary topics.

To learn to program is to be initiated into an entirely new way of thinking about engineering, mathematics, and the world in general.

This monograph covers some selected problems of positive fractional 1D and 2D linear systems.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Science reflects recent developments in the field of Computational Science, conceiving the field not as a mere ancillary science but rather as an innovative approach supporting many other scientific disciplines.

(Preliminary): The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) digital transmission technique has several advantages in broadcast and mobile communications applications.

This research addresses delay effects in nonlinear systems, which are ubiquitous in various fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and even in social and economic systems.

"e;Digital Communications"e; presents the theory and application of the philosophy of Digital Communication systems in a unique but lucid form.

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Nine years have passed since I dispatched the second edition, and the book still appears to be in demand.

This monograph deals with approximation and noise cancellation of dyn- ical systems which include linear and nonlinear input/output relationships.

The paradigm of complexity is pervading both science and engineering, le- ing to the emergence of novel approaches oriented at the development of a systemic view of the phenomena under study; the de?

Monte Carlo Simulation in Statistical Physics deals with the computer simulation of many-body systems in condensed-matter physics and related fields of physics, chemistry and beyond, to traffic flows, stock market fluctuations, etc.

The security issues set by the global digitization of our society have had, and will continue to have, a crucial impact at all levels of our social organization, including, just to mention a few, privacy, economics, environmental policies, national sovereignty, medical environments.

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the Fifth International Conf- ence on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2008), held in Funchal, Madeira - Portugal, from 11 to 15 May 2008.

Focuses on acquiring spatial models of physical environments through mobile robotsThe robotic mapping problem is commonly referred to as SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping).

Cities can be considered to be among the largest and most complex artificial networks created by human beings.

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The present book includes a set of selected papers from the third "e;International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics"e; (ICINCO 2006), held in Setubal, Portugal, from 1 to 5 August 2006, sponsored by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC).

Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology - A Practical Engineering Guide"e; deals with all the most important digital television, sound radio and multimedia standards such as MPEG, DVB, DVD, DAB, ATSC, T-DMB, DMB-T, DRM and ISDB-T.

The purpose of this textbook is to introduce the student to a basic area of mac- scopic physics, namely the statistical mechanical study of the different phases of matter, as well as the phase transitions between them.

Today's ever more complex world creates challenges for decision makers.

In this volume readers will find for the first time a detailed account of the theory of symplectic reduction by stages, along with numerous illustrations of the theory.

In recent years, agent-based simulation has become a widely accepted tool when dealing with complexity in economics and other social sciences.