Information theory

This book offers a self-contained introduction to the theory of Lyapunov exponents and its applications, mainly in connection with hyperbolicity, ergodic theory and multifractal analysis.

This book highlights the latest findings on nonlinear dynamical systems including two types of attractors: self-excited and hidden attractors.

This book advances a new interdisciplinary approach that engages with the concepts of science and literature through the mediation of philosophy (with a focus on the ideas of Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze).

This book features research papers presented at the International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Data Mining and Information Security (IEMIS 2020) held at the University of Engineering & Management, Kolkata, India, during July 2020.

The central theme of this reference book is the metric geometry of complex analysis in several variables.

This book is the first one that provides a solid bridge between algorithmic information theory and statistical mechanics.

This book presents selected articles from the 15th International Asian Urbanization Conference, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 27-30, 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems, MobiWIS 2017, held in  Prague, Czech Republic, in August  2017.

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.

This volume is to pique the interest of many researchers in the fields of infinite dimensional analysis and quantum probability.

This book presents new efficient methods for optimization in realistic large-scale, multi-agent systems.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, EGOVIS 2019, held in Linz, Austria, in August 2019.

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.

This book is devoted to Prof.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of thermodynamics.

The three-volume set, LNCS 11692, LNCS 11693, and LNCS 11694, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2019, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2019.

The three-volume set, LNCS 11692, LNCS 11693, and LNCS 11694, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2019, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2019.

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.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference, ICDEc 2020, held in Bucharest, Romania, in June 2020.

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

This book is focused on an emerging area, i.

The three-volume set, LNCS 11692, LNCS 11693, and LNCS 11694, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2019, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2019.

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 three-volume set, LNCS 12550, 12551, and 12552, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, TCCC 2020, held in Durham, NC, USA, in November 2020.

This three-volume set, LNCS 12550, 12551, and 12552, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, TCCC 2020, held in Durham, NC, USA, in November 2020.

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.

This textbook introduces major topics that include quantum bits, superposition, entanglement, logic gates, quantum search algorithm, quantum Fourier transform, inverse quantum Fourier transform, Shor's order-finding algorithm and phase estimation.

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.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2017, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in August 2017.

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

The three volume-set, LNCS 10401, LNCS 10402, and LNCS 10403, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 37th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2017, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2017.

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.

Das Buch soll keine wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen über Theorien der Informatik oder der Organisationslehre liefern, sondern einen praxiserprobten Weg aufzeigen, wie man durch eine stufenweise, kostenoptimierte und risikoarme Erneuerung der bisherigen Anwendungen eine reaktionsfähige und kontinuierlich erneuerbare Anwendungslandschaft aufbauen und dadurch zu einer hochflexiblen und effizienten Anwendungslandschaft kommen kann.

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.