Over the last few years, multimedia hardware and applications have become widely available in the personal computer and workstation environments, and multimedia is rapidly becoming an integral part of stand-alone, single-user sy- stems.
The evidence discovered at underwater crime scenes must be handled with the same attention to proper chain of custody procedures as with any other type of investigation.
It has become highly desirable to provide users with flexible ways to query/search information over databases as simple as keyword search like Google search.
Active networking is an exciting new paradigm in digital networking that has the potential to revolutionize the manner in which communication takes place.
This book introduces the latest research on advanced control charts and new machine learning approaches to detect abnormalities in the smart manufacturing process.
This volume is a research expository article on the applied mathematics of turbulent dynamical systems through the paradigm of modern applied mathematics.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, PERSUASIVE 2020, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in April 2020.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 21st Japanese Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs, JCDCGGG 2018, held in Quezon City, Philippines, in September 2018.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International TRIZ Future Conference on Automated Invention for Smart Industries, TFC 2022, which took place in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2022; the event was sponsored by IFIP WG 5.
Forensic Engineering Investigation is a compendium of the investigative methodologies used by engineers and scientific investigators to evaluate some of the more common types of failures and catastrophic events.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2022, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2022.
Database Systems: A Pragmatic Approach is a classroom textbook for use by students who are learning about relational databases, and the professors who teach them.
The five-volume set CCIS 2133-2137 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held in conjunction with the Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2023, which took place in Turin, Italy, during September 18-22, 2023.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, DAIS 2024, held in PhGroningen, The Netherlands, as Part of the 19th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2024, during June 17-21, 2024.
This book, the sixth of 15 related monographs, discusses singularity and networks of equilibriums and 1-diemsnional flows in product quadratic and cubic systems.
The classical and quantum dynamics of conservative systems governs the behavior of much of the world around us - from the dynamics of galaxies to the vibration and electronic behavior of molecules and the dynamics of systems formed from or driven by laser radiation.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.
This LNCS volume constitutes the referred proceedings of 35th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2024, held in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia and Tokyo, Japan, during December 16-18, 2024.
This book highlights relevant studies and applications in the area of robotics, which reflect the latest research, from interdisciplinary theoretical studies and computational algorithm development, to representative applications.
The immune system is highly complex system with large number of macromolecules, signaling pathways, protein-protein interactions, and gene expressions.
This book is one of the first comprehensive works to fill the knowledge gap resulting from the limited number of empirical studies on interfirm networks.
Multimedia Database Systems: Design and Implementation Strategies is a compendium of the state-of-the-art research and development work pertaining to the problems and issues in the design and development of multimedia database systems.
This two-volume set constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2025, held as part of HCI International 2025, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025.
The purpose of this book is to present a self-contained description of the fundamentals of the theory of nonlinear control systems, with special emphasis on the differential geometric approach.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, LATIN 2022, which took place in Guanajuato, Mexico, in November 2022.
The three-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2021, which was held during June 25-27, 2021.
This book collects the works presented at the 8th International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet) 2017 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on March 21-24, 2017.
Methodologies and legislative frameworks regarding the archaeological excavation, retrieval, analysis, curation and potential reburial of human skeletal remains differ throughout the world.
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 is the result of our teaching over the years an undergraduate course on Linear Optimal Systems to applied mathematicians and a first-year graduate course on Linear Systems to engineers.