Information theory

Research in the past thirty years on the foundations of thermodynamics has led not only to a better understanding of the early developments of the subject but also to formulations of the First and Second Laws that permit both a rigorous analysis of the consequences of these laws and a substantial broadening of the class of systems to which the laws can fruitfully be applied.

In the present book, the starting line is defined by a morphogenetic perspective on human communication and culture.

A comprehensive and innovative guide to teaching, learning and assessment in forensic science education and practitioner training Includes student exercises for mock crime scene and disaster scenarios Addresses innovative teaching methods including apps and e-gaming Discusses existing and proposed teaching methods

The book provides an examination of how fog security is changing the information technology industry and will continue to in the next decade.

This book provides a foundation in stochastic, linear, and mixed-integer programming algorithms with a focus on practical computer algorithm implementation.

Vague concepts are intrinsic to human communication.

This book provides robust analysis and synthesis tools for Markovian jump systems in the finite-time domain with specified performances.

This book focuses on the challenges and the recent findings in vision intelligence incorporating high performance computing applications.

This book explores the specialist area of cryptocurrency in the context of matrimonial finance proceedings.

This contributed volume explores innovative research in the modeling, simulation, and control of crowd dynamics.

A rich variety of real-life physical problems which are still poorly understood are of a nonlinear nature.

Multimedia Information Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

Justice for All identifies ten central flaws in the criminal justice system and offers an array of solutions - from status quo to evolution to revolution - to address the inequities and injustices that far too often result in courtrooms across the United States.

Cyber Victimology provides a global socio-legal-victimological perspective on victimisation online, written in clear, non-technical terms, and presents practical solutions for the problem.

Here is a complete guide to the collection, classification, and comparison of friction skin prints and the determination of identity and nonidentity.

Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective, 8th Edition, provides comprehensive coverage of the philosophy and organizational strategy that expands the traditional police mandate of fighting crime to include forming partnerships with citizenry that endorse mutual support and participation.

This book highlights original approaches of modelling and intelligent control of cyber-physical systems covering both theoretical and practical aspects.

Handbook of Forensic Photography is the most-comprehensive, definitive reference for the use of photography in the capture and presentation of forensic evidence.

Human trafficking is a crime that undermines fundamental human rights and a broader sense of global order.

This two-volume set LNICST 357-358 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 11th EAI International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Services, WiSATS 2020, held in Nanjing, China, in September 2020.

This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the 9th Iberoamerican Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI-COLLAB 2023, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during September 13-15, 2023.

Certain types of crime are increasingly being perpetrated across national borders and require a unified regional or global response to combat them.

This book gathers papers addressing state-of-the-art research in all areas of information and communication technologies and their applications in intelligent computing, cloud storage, data mining and software analysis.

Stories of cyberattacks dominate the headlines.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 41st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2023, the first volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web and Internet Economics, WINE 2020, held in Beijing, China, in December 2020.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics, CICBA 2023, held in Kalyani, India, during January 27-28, 2023.

The book focuses on the Internet of Things and Beidou system application.

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

Police detention is the place where suspects are taken whilst their case is investigated and a case disposal decision is reached.

This book discusses the potential of the Internet of Unmanned Things (IoUT), which is considered a promising paradigm resulting in numerous applications including shipment of goods, home package delivery, crop monitoring, agricultural surveillance, and rescue operations.

This book presents the state of the art in social simulation as presented at the Social Simulation Conference 2019 in Mainz, Germany.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security, ICITS 2017, held in Hong Kong, China, in November/December 2017.

This book presents select, recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems reported at the 1st Online Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity, held on November 23-25, 2020.

The research and development of pattern recognition have proven to be of importance in science, technology, and human activity.

This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 19th IFIP WG 6.

This historical interdisciplinary book contextualises the Rorschach ink blot test and embeds it within feminist action and queer liberation.

The Forensic Aspects of Hypoglycaemia succinctly covers the medicolegal considerations of hypoglycaemia in a variety of scenarios including driving fatalities, petty crime, homicide and suicide.

This book presents the general objective of the REV2021 conference which is to contribute and discuss fundamentals, applications, and experiences in the field of Online and Remote Engineering, Virtual Instrumentation, and other related new technologies like Cross Reality, Data Science & Big Data, Internet of Things & Industrial Internet of Things, Industry 4.

Dieses Buch ist aus Vorlesungen und Übungen entstanden, die ich mehrfach an der Universität Karlsruhe für Mathematiker, Physiker, Ingenieure und Informati­ ker gehalten habe.

This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech and other modal resources (e.

The five-volume set LNCS 14961, 14962, 14963, 14964 and 14965 constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Web and Big Data, APWeb-WAIM 2024, held in Jinhua, China, during August 30-September 1, 2024.

Reflecting new discoveries in fingerprint science, Lee and Gaensslen's Advances in Fingerprint Technology, Third Edition has been completely updated with new material and nearly double the references contained in the previous edition.

This volume consists of selected essays by participants of the workshop Control at Large Scales: Energy Markets and Responsive Grids held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.

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It is an inescapable fact that causation, both generally (in populations), and specifically (in individuals), cannot be observed.

This book introduces the intelligent control technology of heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) water system in detail, studying its thermal distribution characteristics and optimal control methods combining the nonlinearity, strong coupling and delay characteristics to improve the overall operation and maintenance level as well as the energy efficiency of HVAC water system.