Information theory

Cryptology, for millennia a "e;secret science"e;, is rapidly gaining in practical importance for the protection of communication channels, databases, and software.

The Handbook of Feynman Path Integrals appears just fifty years after Richard Feynman published his pioneering paper in 1948 entitled "e;Space-Time Approach to Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics"e;, in which he introduced his new formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of path integrals.

This book provides an introduction to discrete dynamical systems - a framework of analysis that is commonly used in the fields of biology, demography, ecology, economics, engineering, finance, and physics.

Over the course of the past decade, decoherence has become a ubiquitous scienti?

Many practical control problems are dominated by characteristics such as state, input and operational constraints, alternations between different operating regimes, and the interaction of continuous-time and discrete event systems.

Flow Control and Optimization is increasingly incorporated in the design of engineering devices ranging from aircraft and space vehicles to micro?

Zero-knowledge proofs are fascinating and extremely useful constructs.

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This textbook provides an exposition of equilibrium thermodynamics and its applications to several areas of physics with particular attention to phase transitions and critical phenomena.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 27th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science, WG 2001, held in Boltenhagen, Germany, in June 2001.

This Brief is an essay at the interface of philosophy and complexity research, trying to inspire the reader with new ideas and new conceptual developments of cellular automata.

This volume constitutes the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption, FSE'97, held in Haifa, Israel, in January 1997.

This state-of-the-art survey presents the outcome of the eSTREAM Project, which was launched in 2004 as part of ECRYPT, the European Network of Excellence in Cryptology (EU Framework VI).

Model integration - the process by which different modelling efforts can be brought together to simulate the target system - is a core technology in the field of Systems Biology.

How can one exchange information e?

Modern database systems enhance the capabilities of traditional database systems by their ability to handle any kind of data, including text, image, audio, and video.

Fuzzy Days in Dortmund were held for the first time in 1991.

This monograph presents key method to successfully manage the growing complexity of systems where conventional engineering and scientific methodologies and technologies based on learning and adaptability come to their limits and new ways are nowadays required.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Discovery Science, DS'98, held in Fukuoka, Japan, in December 1998.

The objective of the workshops associated with ER 2001, the 20th International Con- rence on Conceptual Modeling, was to give participants the opportunity to present and discuss emerging hot topics, thus adding new perspectives to conceptual modeling.

This book presents a selection of revised full papers accepted for presentation at the First International Conference on Biology, Informatics, and Mathematics, JOBIM 2000, held in Montpellier, France, in May 2000.

The AAECC Symposia Series was started in 1983 by Alain Poli (Toulouse), who, together with R.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2001, held in Hong Kong, China in April 2001.

An important part of the science of complexity is the study of emergent properties arising through dynamical processes in various types of natural and artificial systems.

In this monograph, the density ?

The 1st Workshop on Service Assurance with Partial and Intermittent Resources (SAPIR 2004) was the first event in a series introducing the concept of pi-resources and bridging it with the emerging and important field of distributed and heavily shared resources.

This book, written by two well-known scientists, represents an excellent ad- dition to the Springer Series in Synergetics in several ways.

Real-life problems are often quite complicated in form and nature and, for centuries, many different mathematical concepts, ideas and tools have been developed to formulate these problems theoretically and then to solve them either exactly or approximately.

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art, in conceptual modeling.

Multimedia technologies are rapidly attracting more and more interest every day.

This book offers a multifaceted exploration of cybersecurity through the lenses of policy, ethics, and advanced technology.

This book offers a multifaceted exploration of cybersecurity through the lenses of policy, ethics, and advanced technology.

This volume contains the papers presented at the "e;Second International S- posium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems"e; (FoIKS 2002), which was held in Schlo Salzau, Germany from February 20th to 23rd, 2002.

The first edition of this book has found great interest among scientists and en- gineers dealing with pattern recognition and among psychologists working on psychophysics or Gestalt psychology.

As the interconnectivity between humans through technical devices is becoming ubiquitous, the next step is already in the making: ambient intelligence, i.

Bringing together over fifty contributions on all aspects of nonlinear and complex dynamics, this impressive topical collection is both a scientific and personal tribute, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, by many outstanding colleagues in the broad fields of research pursued by Prof.