Information theory

This volume assembles hundreds of cases and studies to provide the most accurate and comprehensive picture of the status of pornography in the criminal justice system.

With nearly 600 autopsy photographs, this atlas shows various trauma and diseases of the brain and spinal cord in the forensic context of sudden death investigation.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2021, held in Irkutsk, Russia, in July 2021.

This book focuses on novel design and systems engineering approaches, including theories and best practices, for promoting a better integration of people and engineering systems.

This volume of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of complexity and systems theory, as well as the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems, to the prediction, monitoring, and evaluation of earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes.

Generalizations of the classical concept of a convexfunction have been proposed in various fields such aseconomics, management science, engineering, statistics andapplied sciences during the second half of this century.

Emerging in the 1940s, the first cybernetics-the study of communication and control systems-was mainstreamed under the names artificial intelligence and computer science and taken up by the social sciences, the humanities, and the creative arts.

This book provides an overview of the research done and results obtained during the last ten years in the fields of fractional systems control, fractional PI and PID control, robust and CRONE control, and fractional path planning and path tracking.

Based on chaos theory two very important points are clear: (I) random- looking aperiodic behavior may be the product of determinism, and (2) nonlinear problems should be treated as nonlinear problems and not as simplified linear problems.

"e;There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.

Fault-Tolerant Process Control focuses on the development of general, yet practical, methods for the design of advanced fault-tolerant control systems; these ensure an efficient fault detection and a timely response to enhance fault recovery, prevent faults from propagating or developing into total failures, and reduce the risk of safety hazards.

The Routledge International Handbook of Homicide Investigation will be the first of its kind to bring together research and personal insights from detectives, practitioners, academics and experts internationally on various complexities that are involved in the investigation of homicides.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2020, held in Jammu, India, during December 16-20, 2020.

The chapters in this book present the work of researchers, scientists, engineers, and teachers engaged with developing unified foundations, principles, and technologies for cyber-physical security.

What is order that is not based on simple repetition, that is, periodicity?

The Police Manager provides a roadmap for the challenges that police administrators face in their day-to-day duties, including considerations for dealing with subordinate officers and for interacting with the public.

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) provides a legal framework for acting on behalf of individuals who lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves.

This updated book presents research on how Internet of Things plays a part in shaping the future of our communities.

Fractional Dynamics and Control provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the areas of nonlinear dynamics, vibration and control with analytical, numerical, and experimental results.

This book is the first volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on 'The Information Society at the Crossroads.

This new book addresses the status of the field of System Dynamics 60+ years after its inception.

Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue thedevelopment of artificial systems based on the study ofbiological systems.

This book promotes and facilitates exchanges of research knowledge and findings across different disciplines on the design and investigation of machine learning-based data analytics of IoT infrastructures.

Data usually comes in a plethora of formats and dimensions, rendering the exploration and information extraction processes challenging.

This two-volume set LNCS 15179-15180 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2024, which took place virtually during September 21-23, 2024.

"e;The importance of knowledge consists not only in its direct practical utility but also in the fact the it promotes a widely contemplative habit of mind; on this ground, utility is to be found in much of the knowledge that is nowadays labelled 'useless'.

Digital Forensic Art Techniques: A Professional's Guide to Corel PainterTM illustrates hands-on techniques to digitally create forensic art for police and investigative purposes.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2017, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in June 2017.

The 10-volume set, LNCS 14920-14929 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 44th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2024.

In this book author Michele P.

This book covers terahertz antenna technology for imaging and sensing, along with its various applications.

This book provides a stocktake and comparative socio-legal analysis of law enforcement cooperation strategies in four different regions of the world: the European Union (EU), North America, Greater China and Australasia.

This book presents the most important findings from the 9th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC'17), held in Kunming, China on July 10-12, 2017.

Increasingly, crimes and fraud are digital in nature, occurring at breakneck speed and encompassing large volumes of data.

In an age where real-time processing and interaction with the physical world through digital lenses are paramount, visual SLAM technology has become the backbone of mobile AR/VR applications, robotics, and autonomous systems.

The 10-volume set, LNCS 14920-14929 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 44th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2024.

This book introduces 6G enabled healthcare systems and helps readers understand state-of-the-art techniques and applications for future healthcare systems.

This book introduces recent results on output synchronization of complex dynamical networks with single and multiple weights.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium, UNet 2022, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, during October 25-27, 2022.

This work provides comprehensive, practice-oriented coverage of ballistics.

This book addresses the processes of stochastic structure formation in two-dimensional geophysical fluid dynamics based on statistical analysis of Gaussian random fields, as well as stochastic structure formation in dynamic systems with parametric excitation of positive random fields f(r,t) described by partial differential equations.

This book explains the fundamental concepts of information theory, so as to help students better understand modern communication technologies.

Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events - such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance.

Focusing on important information literacy debates, this new book with contributions from many of the main experts in the field highlights important ideas and practical considerations.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the Ninth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, held in London, on February 19-22, 2024.