Information theory

2 But already he had done important work on thermal equilibrium which helped generalize Maxwell's distribution law.

User-adaptive (or "e;personalized"e;) systems take individual character- istics of their current users into account and adapt their behavior ac- cordingly.

Most of the specialists working in this interdisciplinary field of physics, biology, biophysics and medicine are associated with "e;The International Institute of Biophysics"e; (IIB), in Neuss, Germany, where basic research and possibilities for applications are coordinated.

MPEG-7 is the first international standard which contains a number of key techniques from Computer Vision and Image Processing.

As robotic systems make their way into standard practice, they have opened the door to a wide spectrum of complex applications.

Systems analysis in forestry has continued to advance in sophistication and diversity of application over the last few decades.

This book grew out of our lectures given in the Oberseminar on 'Cod- ing Theory and Number Theory' at the Mathematics Institute of the Wiirzburg University in the Summer Semester, 2001.

From the foreword by Thomas Huang: "e;During the past decade, researchers in computer vision have found that probabilistic machine learning methods are extremely powerful.

The kinetic theory of gases as we know it dates to the paper of Boltzmann in 1872.

Preface to Second Edition From the time that the original edition was published in 1985, multidimensional systems theory has matured into a discipline of research and teaching with an expanding array of applications.

Conventional digital computation methods have run into a se- rious speed bottleneck due to their serial nature.

This book is about model-based diagnosis of a class of discrete-event systems called active systems.

This book is multi- and interdisciplinary in both scope and content.

A statisticallanguage model, or more simply a language model, is a prob- abilistic mechanism for generating text.

The genesis of this volume was the participation of the editors in an ACMlSIGIR (Association for Computing Machinery/Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) workshop entitled "e;Beyond Word Relations"e; (Hetzler, 1997).

Databases and database systems in particular, are considered as kerneIs of any Information System (IS).

Mesoscopic physics has made great strides in the last few years.

Images and video play a crucial role in visual information systems and multimedia.

This volume contains the papers presented at the IUTAM Symposium on Geometry and Statistics of Turbulence, held in November 1999, at the Shonan International Village Center, Hayama (Kanagawa-ken), Japan.

Modern information systems differ in essence from their predecessors.

Our ontology as well as our grammar are, as Quine affirms, ineliminable parts of our conceptual contribution to our theory of the world.

Time is a fascinating subject and has long since captured mankind's imagination, from the ancients to modern man, both adult and child alike.

When I started with this book several years ago I originally intended to write an introduction to mathematical systems theory for social scientists.

This book has a distinct philosophy and it is appropriate to make it explicit at the outset.

The theory of foliations and contact forms have experienced such great de- velopment recently that it is natural they have implications in the field of mechanics.

This book includes a set of selected papers from the first "e;International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems,"e; (ICEIS'99) held in SeUtbal, Portugal, from 27 to 30 March 1999.

Every thought is a throw of dice.

Preface to the English Edition The present monograph is a revised and enlarged alternative of the author's monograph [19] which was devoted to the development of a unified approach to studying differential inclusions, whose values of the right hand sides are compact, not necessarily convex subsets of a Banach space.

Force and motion control systems of varying degrees of sophistication have shaped the lives of all individuals living in industrialized countries all over the world, and together with communication technology are largely responsible for the high standard ofliving prevalent in many communities.

Electrical drives lie at the heart of most industrial processes and make a major contribution to the comfort and high quality products we all take for granted.

We are facing global issues concerning environmental pollution and shortages of food, feed, phytomass (plant biomass) and natural resources, which will become more serious in the forthcoming decades.

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This book contains the courses given at the Fifth School on Complex Systems held at Santiago, Chile, from 9th .

Under leadership of CT de Wit a large amount of modeling, building prototypes and also application, was carried out in the 1970s and 1980s.

The electric power industry is currently undergoing an unprecedented reform.

Cellular automata can be viewed both as computational models and modelling systems of real processes.

Statistical mechanics deals with systems in which chaos and randomness reign supreme.

Many dynamical systems in physics, chemistry and biology exhibit complex be- haviour.

Let us assume that an observation Xi is a random variable (r.

Despite the fact that images constitute the main objects in computer vision and image analysis, there is remarkably little concern about their actual definition.

Beginning his work on the monograph to be published in English, this author tried to present more or less general notions of the possibilities of mathematics in the new and rapidly developing science of infectious immunology, describing the processes of an organism's defence against antigen invasions.

In spite of the impressive predictive power and strong mathematical structure of quantum mechanics, the theory has always suffered from important conceptual problems.

We are often told that quantum phenomena demand radical revisions of our scientific world view and that no physical theory describing well defined objects, such as particles described by their positions, evolving in a well defined way, let alone deterministically, can account for such phenomena.

Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well elaborated formal theories.

From July 10th through July 13th, 1994, an informal workshop co-organized by RILEM committees 116-PCD and 123-MME was held at Saint-Remy-Ies- Chevreuse, France, and attended by 38 delegates from 16 countries.

It is known that many control processes are characterized by both quantitative and qualitative complexity.

A non-technical introduction to the question of modeling with time-varying parameters, using the beta coefficient from Financial Economics as the main example.