Information theory

This textbook for courses in Embedded Systems introduces students to necessary concepts, through a hands-on approach.

David Forster examines privacy protection for vehicular communication under the assumption of an attacker that is able to compromise back-end systems - motivated by the large number of recent security incidents and revelations about mass surveillance.

Psychoanalysis is not just about what happens in the room - it is also about the structure that holds it all together.

The aim of this book is to furnish the reader with a rigorous and detailed exposition of the concept of control parametrization and time scaling transformation.

This monograph explores the synchronization of large-scale, multi-agent dynamical systems in the presence of disturbances, delays, and time-varying networks.

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

The first detailed description of when and how the police may use force under the international law of law enforcement.

This text provides a clear and accessible introduction to the Investigatory Powers Act, a foundational piece of UK national security law.

The core baseline of Intelligence-led Policing is the aim of increasing efficiency and quality of police work, with a focus on crime analysis and intelligence methods as tools for informed and objective decisions both when conducting targeted, specialized operations and when setting strategic priorities.

The birth of Islam over fourteen centuries ago was a monumental event in human history with an everlasting effect on humanity.

Iterative Learning Control (ILC) differs from most existing control methods in the sense that, it exploits every possibility to incorporate past control informa- tion, such as tracking errors and control input signals, into the construction of the present control action.

Modern cryptography depends heavily on number theory, with primality test- ing, factoring, discrete logarithms (indices), and elliptic curves being perhaps the most prominent subject areas.

This book gives a detailed analysis of switched-capacitor DC-DC converters that are entirely integrated on a single chip and establishes that these converters are mainly limited by the large parasitic coupling, the low capacitor energy density, and the fact that switched-capacitor converter topologies only have a fixed voltage conversion ratio.

This book critically assesses legal frameworks involving the bulk processing of personal data, initially collected by the private sector, to predict and prevent crime through advanced profiling technologies.

The three-volume set LNCS 12771-12773 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2021, which was held as part of HCI International 2021 and took place virtually during July 24-29, 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing, ANTIC 2024, held in Varanasi, India, during December 19-21, 2024.

This textbook offers a comprehensive treatment of vehicle dynamics using an innovative, compelling approach, suitable for engineering students and professionals alike.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2021, held in Irkutsk, Russia, in July 2021.

This book provides an introductory yet rigorous treatment of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle and its application to optimal control problems when simple and complex constraints act on state and control variables, the two classes of variable in such problems.

This book includes new research results of scholars from the Fourth International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Technologies (ICAIT 2023) organized by IRNet International Academic Communication Center, held during November 3-5, 2023.

"e;An elegantly written, introductory overview of the field, with a near perfect choice of what to include and what not, enlivened in places by historical tidbits and made eminently readable throughout by crisp language.

This book constitutes the selected papers from the scientific satellite events held in conjunction with the19th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2021.

Every day the media floods the airwaves with their often-contradictory version of the role and behavior of the police force.

Ethics in Rural Psychology provides readers with theoretical underpinnings, practical applications, and empirically based knowledge of the practice of psychology in rural communities.

Focuses on how to use web service computing and service-based workflow technologies to develop timely, effective workflows for both business and scientific fields Utilizing web computing and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business and Scientific Workflows: A Web Service Oriented Approach focuses on how to design, analyze, and deploy web service based workflows for both business and scientific applications in many areas of healthcare and biomedicine.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Optimization and Applications, OPTIMA 2021, held in Petrovac, Montenegro, in September-October 2021.

Special constables are warranted officers retained within British constabularies.

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

This book covers analytic methods to solve one-dimensional and multi-dimensional problems with or without possible constraints, iterative numerical techniques based on the gradient calculation or its estimation, and numerical methods that do not require the knowledge of gradient and use only comparative iterative tests.

The ability to extract generic 3D objects from images is a crucial step towards automation of a variety of problems in cartographic database compilation, industrial inspection and assembly, and autonomous navigation.

Hosoi, Tatsuno and Pratt examine the realities, problems and backgrounds of crimes committed by elderly people in both Japan and international perspectives.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems, FORMATS 2023, held in Antwerp, Belgium, in September 2023.

This book covers technical contributions that have been submitted, reviewed and presented at the 22nd  annual event of International conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG) The applications of advanced information technology to such domains as astronomy, biology, education, geosciences, security and health care are among topics of relevance to ITNG.

This well-respected and highly regarded book provides straightforward coverage of all aspects of law and police procedure that affect the community at large.

For a long time the techniques of solving linear optimization (LP) problems improved only marginally.

With millions lost each year, cyber crime has evolved from a minor nuisance to a major concern involving well-organized actors and highly sophisticated organizations.

Develops foundational concepts, key operational and design principles, and interdisciplinary applications for cyber-physical systems.

This text ventures into areas which the majority of control system books avoid.

This book constitutes the 13th edition of the annual Multi-Agent Programming Contest, MAPC 2018, and presents its participants.

Advances in Control contains keynote contributions and tutorial material from the fifth European Control Conference, held in Germany in September 1999.

This is a comprehensive reference book on the subject of forensic mental health, looking at what forensic mental health is and its assessment, management and treatment.

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

This book integrates the fundamentals of asymmetric multidimensional scaling, spectral graph theory, graph embedding theory, and various dynamical systems theories, that deal with the static and dynamic aspects of asymmetric phenomena.

From the point of his arrest through to the final disposition of his case, the authors follow the accused as he proceeds through the criminal control system.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Computing (ICMAC 2019) held at Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering, Chennai, India, from 23-24 December 2019.