Information theory

The two-volume set LNCS 12110 and 12111 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2020, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2020.

This book looks at police reform in Canada, arguing that no significant and sustainable reform can occur until steps are taken to answer the question of 'What exactly do we want police to do?

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 reports on cutting-edge research and technology aimed at increasing the efficiency of production processes and to foster the implementation of Industry 4.

This book offers a comprehensive yet approachable introduction to essential mathematical concepts, tailored specifically for undergraduate and first-year graduate students in Economics and Social Sciences.

Nonsmooth Lyapunov Analysis in Finite and Infinite Dimensions provides helpful tools for the treatment of a broad class of dynamical systems that are governed, not only by ordinary differential equations but also by partial and functional differential equations.

This monograph provides an introduction to the concept of invariance entropy, the central motivation of which lies in the need to deal with communication constraints in networked control systems.

Scheck's textbook starts with a concise introduction to classical thermodynamics, including geometrical aspects.

This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the satellite events held at the 20th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2023, held in Hersonissos, Greece, during May 28-June 1, 2023.

Some recent fuzzy database modeling advances for the non-traditional applications are introduced in this book.

This textbook covers digital design, fundamentals of computer architecture, and assembly language.

This book is a compilation of select chapter from the 2023 International Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity.

The online environment has emerged as a continuous and unfettered source of interpersonal criminal activity beyond physical boundaries.

Artificial neural networks have been recognized as a powerful tool to learn and reproduce systems in various fields of applications.

Research results using some of the most advanced soft computing techniques in intelligent robotic systems are presented.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 18th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 18-20, 2020.

This is the first full-length study about the British artist Roy Ascott, one of the first cybernetic artists, with a career spanning seven decades to date.

This book comprises select proceedings of the 12th Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR 2019) focusing on cutting-edge research carried out in different applications of robotics, including agriculture, search and rescue, aerial marine, industrial, and space.

In the last decade there have been rapid developments in thefield of computer-based learning environments.

Humanity's most basic intellectual quest to decipher nature and master it has led to numerous efforts to build machines that simulate the world or communi- cate with it [Bus70, Tur36, MP43, Sha48, vN56, Sha41, Rub89, NK91, Nyc92].

The classical theory of random walks describes the asymptotic behavior of sums of independent identically distributed random real variables.

The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.

Aimed primarily at graduate students and researchers, this text is a comprehensive course in modern probability theory and its measure-theoretical foundations.

This book contains revised selected papers from the 26th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2019, held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, in August 2019.

The 2003 edition of ICANNGA marks a milestone in this conference series, because it is the tenth year of its existence.

This book highlights the solution algorithms and characteristic analysis methods of fractional-order chaotic systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICA CRYPT 2014, held in Marrakesh, Morocco in May 2014.

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

Discrete Event Systems: Diagnosis and Diagnosability addresses the problem of fault diagnosis of Discrete Event Systems (DESs).

Psychopathy and Criminal Behavior: Current Trends and Challenges fills a gap in the market by covering new topics and angles not addressed in other literature.

This book presents a novel account of the human temporal dimension called the "e;human temporality"e; and develops a special mathematical formalism for describing such an object as the human mind.

The goal of this book is to provide engineers and scientIsts in academia and industry with a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of nonlinear system identification.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Foundations for Data Interoperability, SFDI 2020, and 2nd International Workshop on Large Scale Graph Data Analytics, LSGDA 2020, held in Conjunction with VLDB 2020, in September 2020.

This book provides an introduction to the analysis of discrete dynamical systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2018, held in Leuven, Belgium, in July 2018.

It is important to understand what came before and how to meld new products with legacy systems.

New results, fresh ideas and new applications in automotive and flight control systems are presented in this second edition of Robust Control.

Chemometrics, or the application of multivariate statistics to chemical data, provides informative and statistically valid analyses within a forensic context and there has been an increase in the use of chemometrics to characterise forensic exhibits.

This volume contains extended abstracts outlining selected talks and other selected presentations given by participants throughout the "e;Intensive Research Program on Advances in Nonsmooth Dynamics 2016"e;, held at the Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM) in Barcelona from February 1st to April 29th, 2016.

The year 1992 marks the centennial anniversary of publication of the celebrated monograph "e;The General Problem of Stability of Motion"e; written by A.

This book offers a didactic and a self-contained treatment of the physics of liquid and flowing matter with a statistical mechanics approach.

These two volumes cover the principal approaches to constructivism in mathematics.

Studenten der Ingenieurwissenschaften, der Chemie und der Physik hören seit 20 Jahren die Vorlesungen des Autors zur Thermodynamik.

Practical Guide to Evidence provides a clear and readable account of the law of evidence, acknowledging the importance of arguments about facts and principles as well as rules.

The third edition of Introduction to Environmental Forensics is a state-of-the-art reference for the practicing environmental forensics consultant, regulator, student, academic, and scientist, with topics including compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA), advanced multivariate statistical techniques, surrogate approaches for contaminant source identification and age dating, dendroecology, hydrofracking, releases from underground storage tanks and piping, and contaminant-transport modeling for forensic applications.