Information theory

This book is guided by the typical application scenarios of distributed coordination control strategies inspired by the collective behaviors of flocks of birds, schools of fish, swarm of herds, and so on.

The contributions gathered in this book focus on modern methods for statistical learning and modeling in data analysis and present a series of engaging real-world applications.

This book constitutes selected papers of the Second International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security, ACOSIS 2019, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, in November 2019.

This book presents an overview of the state of the art in video coding technology.

This book is to provide readers with up-to-date advances in applied and interdisciplinary engineering science and technologies related to nonlinear dynamics, vibration, control, robotics, and their engineering applications, developed in the most recent years.

This book provides an introduction to the ergodic theory and topological dynamics of actions of countable groups.

The book commences with an introductory section on reconfigurable computing and thereafter delves into its applications in critical infrastructures.

This book aims to deliver a platform of scientific interaction between the three interwoven challenging areas of research and development of future ICT-enabled applications: software intensive systems, complex systems and intelligent systems.

This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, held in Gifu, Japan, during July 2-5, 2024.

The enormous practical need for solving global optimization problems coupled with a rapidly advancing computer technology has allowed one to consider problems which a few years ago would have been considered computationally intractable.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2020, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2020.

The Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) conferences have established themselves as a platform for bringing together researchers and practitioners from various backgrounds and all regions of the world to exchange ideas, experiences and opinions in a friendly and stimulating environment.

This book provides a systematic and comparative description of the vast number of research issues related to the quality of data and information.

This volume comprises the communications presented at the ETC 11, the EUROMECH European Turbulence conference held in 2007 in Porto.

Computer-aided design syst,ems have become a big business.

This book reports on advances in manufacturing, with a special emphasis on smart manufacturing and information management systems.

Open nonlinear systems are capable of self-organization in space and time.

Nonlinear differential or difference equations are encountered not only in mathematics, but also in many areas of physics (evolution equations, propagation of a signal in an optical fiber), chemistry (reaction-diffusion systems), and biology (competition of species).

Excellent textbook of multimedia signal processing also dealing with the optimization of multimedia communication systems.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the dynamical behaviors of discontinuous dynamical systems and system synchronization.

Modern research in neural networks has led to powerful artificial learning systems, while recent work in the psychology of human memory has revealed much about how natural systems really learn, including the role of unconscious, implicit, memory processes.

After the traditional document-centric Web 1.

This book introduces a variety of statistical tools for characterising and designing the dynamical features of complex quantum systems.

This book originated at a workshop by the same name held in May 2018 at the University of Pavia.

This book develops an innovative system, in the form of an "e;app"e;, that harnesses the power of the internet to predict which sorts of people will prefer which policy in ANY planning situation.

"e;Viruses don't harm, ignorance does.

This book proposes a novel and rigorous explanation of consciousness.

The objective of this textbook is to introduce students and professionals to fundamental principles and techniques and emerging technologies in energy informatics and the digitalization of power markets and systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, ICCCI 2021, held in September/October 2021.

The REV Conference is the annual conference of the International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) together with the Global Online Laboratory Consortium (GOLC).

This book introduces characteristic features of the protein structure prediction (PSP) problem.

This book includes high-quality research papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication (ICICC 2024), which is held at the Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, on 16-17 February 2024.

Thermal processes are ubiquitous and an understanding of thermal phenomena is essential for a complete description of the physics of nanoparticles, both for the purpose of modeling the dynamics of the particles and for the correct interpretation of experimental data.

This textbook introduces readers to mixed-signal, embedded design and provides, in one place, much of the basic information to engage in serious mixed-signal design using Cypress' PSoC.

Biometrics-based authentication and identification are emerging as the most reliable method to authenticate and identify individuals.

This proceedings of 16th CHAOS2023 International Conference highlights recent developments in nonlinear, dynamical, and complex systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, FCT 2021, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2021.

Structures Under Crash and Impact: Continuum Mechanics, Discretization and Experimental Characterization examines the testing and modeling of materials and structures under dynamic loading conditions.

'A fascinating hybrid.

The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-Scale Data and Knowledge-Centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which are core and hot topics in computer science.

This book gives the definitive mathematical answer to what thermodynamics really is: a variational calculus applied to probability distributions.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Measurement and Quality Control - Cyber Physical Issues (IMEKO TC 14 2019), held in Belgrade, Serbia, on 4-7 June 2019.

Focusing on forensic serology and forensic DNA analysis, this book introduces students to the methods and techniques utilized by forensic biology laboratories.