Information theory

This book explains moral dilemmas in the IT industry, focusing on a different area of IT ethics.

This book explores the genesis of ransomware and how the parallel emergence of encryption technologies has elevated ransomware to become the most prodigious cyber threat that enterprises are confronting.

This book is about the theory of system representations.

During the last decade there has been a renewed interest in research on supramolecular assemblies in solutions, such as micelles and microemulsions, not only because of their extensive applications in industries dealing with catalysts, detergency, biotechnology, and enhanced oil recovery, but also due to the development of new and more powerful experimental and theoretical tools for probing the microscopic behavior of these systems.

Make the most of your Mac with this witty, authoritative guide to macOS Big Sur.

A series of open workshops devoted to modem cryptology began in Santa Barbara, California in 1981 and was followed in 1982 by a European counterpart in Burg Feurstein, Germany.

The increasing amount of information available in today's world raises the need to retrieve relevant data efficiently.

Since the second edition of this book came out in early 1997, the number of scientific papers published on the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) has increased from about 1500 to some 4000.

In the first part, this book analyzes the knowledge discovery process in order to understand the relations between knowledge discovery steps and focusing.

This edited volume offers a clear in-depth overview of research covering a variety of issues in social search and recommendation systems.

This book covers all the emerging trends in artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Gathering the proceedings of the 14th CHAOS2021 International Conference, this book highlights recent developments in nonlinear, dynamical and complex systems.

Expanded into two volumes, the Second Edition of Springer's Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security brings the latest and most comprehensive coverage of the topic: Definitive information on cryptography and information security from highly regarded researchers Effective tool for professionals in many fields and researchers of all levels Extensive resource with more than 700 contributions in Second Edition 5643 references, more than twice the number of references that appear in the First Edition With over 300 new entries, appearing in an A-Z format, the Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security provides easy, intuitive access to information on all aspects of cryptography and security.

This book presents selected papers from the Third International Workshop on Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks for Smart Cities, Paris, 2019.

The present book has been written by two mathematicians and one physicist: a pure mathematician specializing in Finsler geometry (Makoto Matsumoto), one working in mathematical biology (Peter Antonelli), and a mathematical physicist specializing in information thermodynamics (Roman Ingarden).

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems, COINE 2022, which was held in Auckland, New Zealand, on May 9, 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2018, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, in May 2018.

This book collects papers from the 8th Conference on Non-Integer Order Calculus and Its Applications that have been held on September 20-21, 2016 in Zakopane, Poland.

This book includes an extended version of selected papers presented at the 11th Industry Symposium 2021 held during January 7-10, 2021.

This book discusses the latest advances in digital modeling systems (DMSs) and additive manufacturing (AM) technologies.

Classical mechanics is a chief example of the scientific method organizing a "e;complex"e;collection of information into theoretically rigorous, unifying principles; in this sense, mechanics represents one of the highest forms of mathematical modeling.

The theory of elliptic curves involves a pleasing blend of algebra, geometry, analysis, and number theory.

Today, online technologies are at the core of most fields of engineering and society as a whole .

This book is devoted to Slime mould Physarum polycephalum, which is a large single cell capable for distributed sensing, concurrent information processing, parallel computation and decentralized actuation.

This book provides the latest developments in activity recognition and prediction, with particular focus on the Internet of Things.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2022, held as part of Evo*2022, in Madrid, Spain, during April 20-21, 2022, co-located with the Evo*2022 events: EvoMUSART, EvoApplications, and EuroGP.

The Second International Conference on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery (DaWaK 2000) was held in Greenwich, UK 4-6 September.

Sensor networks have recently come into prominence because they hold the potential to revolutionize a wide spectrum of both civilian and military applications.

At what level of physical existence does "e;quantum behavior"e; begin?

The Brown Boveri Symposia are by now part of a firm!

This text presents a self-contained treatment of the physics of many-body systems from the point of view of condensed matter.

This volume collects recent advances in nonlinear delay systems, with an emphasis on constructive generalized Lyapunov and predictive approaches that certify stability properties.

Semiconductor technology has developed considerably during the past several decades.

The 10-volume set, LNCS 14920-14929 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 44th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2024.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the most relevant research and standardization results in the area of wireless networking for Industrial IoT, covering both critical and massive connectivity.

This proceedings, HCI-CPT 2023, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, held as Part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which took place in July 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Stochastic Averaging and Extremum Seeking treats methods inspired by attempts to understand the seemingly non-mathematical question of bacterial chemotaxis and their application in other environments.

Thisbook constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Cryptographer's Track at theRSA Conference 2016, CT-RSA 2016, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in February/March2016.

The two-volume Proceedings set CCIS 1675 and 1676 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference, ARTIIS 2022, held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, during September 12-15, 2022.

This book systematically interprets and documents new, unifying principles and basic laws describing the most relevant aspects of hierarchy.

Welcome to the third International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS'2000) in Fortaleza (Brazil)!

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligence Science, ICIS 2020, held in Durgapur, India, in February 2021 (originally November 2020).

The topic of "e;structural control"e;, which had already experienced some attention through publications, for example by Roorda, Yao, Yang, Abdel-Rohman, Leipholz etc.

This book presents different stages of Industrial Revolution in artificial intelligence and its impact on industry 4.

Establishing a new concept of local Lyapunov exponents the author brings together two separate theories, namely Lyapunov exponents and the theory of large deviations.

The present textbook is a somewhat expanded version of the material of a three-semester course I gave in Bochum.

This book aims to promote the core understanding of a proper modelling of road traffic accidents by deep learning methods using traffic information and road geometry delineated from laser scanning data.

This book provides readers with an insight into information and knowledge in the Internet of Things, in particular an investigation of data management and processing, information extraction, technology, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, knowledge co-creation, knowledge integration, and the development of new intelligent services available anytime, anywhere, by anyone.

This book covers all topics in mechanics from elementary Newtonian mechanics, the principles of canonical mechanics and rigid body mechanics to relativistic mechanics and nonlinear dynamics.