Information theory

This book constitutes the proceedings of the XVI Multidisciplinary International Congress on Science and Technology (CIT 2021), held in Quito, Ecuador, on June 14-18, 2021, proudly organized by Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE in collaboration with GDEON.

This two-volume set CCIS 2264 and CCIS 2265 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems, BlockSys 2024, held in Hangzhou, China, during July 12-14, 2024.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, held as a virtual event, in July 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2019, held in Rabat, Morocco, in July 2019.

This book provides a comprehensive view of cyber operations, analysis and targeting, including operational examples viewed through a lens of conceptual models available in current technical and policy literature.

The book is devoted to the study of distributed control problems governed by various nonsmooth state systems.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2014, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in August 2014.

This book presents selected articles from the 15th International Asian Urbanization Conference, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on November 27-30, 2019.

Introduction to the Theory of Quantum Information Processing provides the material for a one-semester graduate level course on quantum information theory and quantum computing for students who have had a one-year graduate course in quantum mechanics.

Approach your problems from the It isn't that they can't see the solution.

This book explores a different pragmatic approach to algorithmic complexity rooted or motivated by the theoretical foundations of algorithmic probability and explores the relaxation of necessary and sufficient conditions in the pursuit of numerical applicability, with some of these approaches entailing greater risks than others in exchange for greater relevance and applicability.

This book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 8th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2023), held in Goa, India, on August 3-4, 2023.

This book highlights recent advances in nonlinear dynamics and control with applications in mechanics and physics.

This book presents frontier research on the use of computational methods to model complex interactions in economics and finance.

By establishing an alternative foundation of control theory, this thesis represents a significant advance in the theory of control systems, of interest to a broad range of scientists and engineers.

This book gathers a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Data and Information Sciences (ICDIS 2023), held at Raja Balwant Singh Engineering Technical Campus, Agra, India, on June 16-17, 2023.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th IFIP WG 5.

This book arose from a series of lectures which I gave at the University of Heidelberg during the summer terms of 1979,1982 and 1986.

Image and Video Encryption provides a unified overview of techniques for encryption of images and video data.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in and activity at the interface between physics and biology, with the realization that both subjects have a great deal to learn from and to teach to one another.

Dealing with Uncertainties is an innovative monograph that lays special emphasis on the deductive approach to uncertainties and on the shape of uncertainty distributions.

This book explores the rich history of the keyword from its earliest manifestations (long before it appeared anywhere in Google Trends or library cataloging textbooks) in order to illustrate its implicit and explicit mediation of human cognition and communication processes.

Steady progress in recent years has been made in understanding the special mathematical features of certain exactly solvable models in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, including the scaling limits of the 2-D Ising (lattice) model, and more generally, a class of 2-D quantum fields known as holonomic fields.

This textbook, now in its second edition, results from lectures, practical problems, and workshops on Optimal Control, given by the authors at Irkutsk State University, Far Eastern Federal University (both in Vladivostok, Russia), and Kwangwoon University (Seoul, South Korea).

Multimedia systems result from the merging of the computing, communications and broadcasting industries.

This volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 5.

This volume contains the papers presented at the 13th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), held October 11-13, 2006, in Glasgow, Scotland.

Data compression is one of the most important techniques in computing engineering.

Semantic Network Analysis in Social Sciences introduces the fundamentals of semantic network analysis and its applications in the social sciences.

This book highlights recent advances in nonlinear dynamics and control with applications in mechanics and physics.

This book presents applications of Newton-like and other similar methods to solve abstract functional equations involving fractional derivatives.

The monograph is about a meta-theory of knowledge-production process and the logical pathway that connects the epistemic possibility to the epistemic reality.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2022, which took place Nantes, France in July 2022.

This book highlights operation principles for Air Traffic Control Automated Systems (ATCAS), new scientific directions in design and application of dispatching training simulators and parameters of ATCAS radio equipment items for aircraft positioning.

"e;The book itself is a diagram of clarification, containing hundreds of examples of work by those who favor the communication of information over style and academic postulation and those who don't.

The contributors in this book share, exchange, and develop new concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies in order to advance and deepen our understanding of social networks in the new generation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enabled by Web 2.

Holding On to Reality is a brilliant history of information, from its inception in the natural world to its role in the transformation of culture to the current Internet mania and is attendant assets and liabilities.

The Cyber-Physical System (CPS) relates to many other popularized technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT, IIoT), Machine-to-Machine (M2M), Industry 4.

This volume contains a collection of studies in the areas of complexity theory and property testing.

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications FRACTALS IN MULTIMEDIA is a result of a very successful three-day minisymposium on the same title.

Stockholm, home to the author and also known as "e;Beauty on the Sea"e;, has much to offer, including a rare insight into ship construction and architecture in the early seventeenth century.

This two-volume set (CCIS 1762-1763) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Machine Learning, Image Processing, Network Security and Data Sciences, MIND 2022, held in Bhopal, India, in December 2022.

Human Face Recognition Using Third-Order Synthetic Neural Networks explores the viability of the application of High-order synthetic neural network technology to transformation-invariant recognition of complex visual patterns.

This book provides detailed information on index theories and their applications, especially Maslov-type index theories and their iteration theories for non-periodic solutions of Hamiltonian systems.

This book is the first academic monograph on the Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST, or China's 'sky eye'), which discusses the research on cable-driven and rigid parallel robots in detail.

This book comprises selected papers of the 25th International Conference on Difference Equations and Applications, ICDEA 2019, held at UCL, London, UK, in June 2019.

Thurston maps are topological generalizations of postcritically-finite rational maps.

This book discusses human perception and performance within the framework of the theory of self-organizing systems.