Information theory

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, written by experts in the field, is based on the latest research on the analysis and synthesis of switched time-delay systems.

Evolutionary algorithms are general-purpose search procedures based on the mechanisms of natural selection and population genetics.

This textbook provides a thorough yet compact review of cloud technologies.

The realities of international law enforcement are widely misunderstood and generally mystifying to the uninitiated.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34th Australasian Database Conference on Databases Theory and Applications, ADC 2023, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, during November 1-3, 2023.

This book brings together the latest research in smart sensors technology and exposes the reader to myriad industrial applications that this technology has enabled.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart Blockchain, SmartBlock 2019, held in Birmingham, UK, in October 2019.

Focusing on research surrounding aspects of insufficiently studied problems of estimation and optimal control of random fields, this book exposes some important aspects of those fields for systems modeled by stochastic partial differential equations.

The goal of this monograph is to answer the question, is it possible to solve the dynamics problem inside the configuration space instead of the phase space?

Accountability of Policing provides a contemporary and wide-ranging examination of the accountability and governance of 'police' and 'policing'.

The dream of mathematical modeling is of systems evolving in a continuous, deterministic, predictable way.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management, CISIM 2024, held in Bialystok, Poland, during September 27-29, 2024.

In The Future of Religion and the Religion of the Future, Theodore John Rivers explores the changing relationship between technology and religion.

This book, the fifth of 15 related monographs, presents systematically a theory of product-cubic nonlinear systems with constant and single-variable linear vector fields.

This first volume of Statistical Physics is an introduction to the theories of equilibrium statistical mechanics, whereas the second volume (Springer Ser.

Hysteresis phenomena are common in numerous physical, mechanical, ecological and biological systems.

This comprehensive text presents cutting-edge advances in the theory and methodology of modeling and simulation (M&S) and reveals how this work has been influenced by the fundamental contributions of Prof.

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Despite a long history of almost 180 years stretching back to the times of Carnot and, later, Clausius and Lord Kelvin, amongst others following him, the subject of thermodynamics has not as yet seen its full maturity, in the sense that the theory of irreversible processes has remained incomplete.

This book is devoted to control of finite and infinite dimensional processes with continuous-time and discrete time control, focusing on suppression problems and new methods of adaptation applicable for systems with sliding motions only.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management, AAIM 2021, which was held online during December 20-22, 2021.

Gender Inclusive Policing: Challenges and Achievements is an edited collection focused on current challenges, innovations and positive achievements in gender integration in policing in different subject domains and locations.

The book focuses on the nonlinear dynamics based on the vector fields with bivariate quadratic functions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security, MobiSec 2019, held in Taichung, Taiwan, in October 2019.

The five-volume set CCIS 1832-1836 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2023, which was held as a hybrid event in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2023.

This book explores the implications of non-volatile memory (NVM) for database management systems (DBMSs).

This book provides a comprehensive overview of statistical descriptions of turbulent flows.

This book presents a novel design framework for the development of Digital Twin (DT) models for process- and motion-control applications.

This book, along with its companion volume, Nonlinear Dynamics New Directions: Models and Applications, covers topics ranging from fractal analysis to very specific applications of the theory of dynamical systems to biology.

This book investigates the permutation polynomial (PP) based interleavers for turbo codes, including all the main theoretical and practical findings related to topics such as full coefficient conditions for PPs up to fifth; the number of all true different PPs up to fifth degree; the number of true different PPs under Zhao and Fan sufficient conditions, for any degree (with direct formulas or with a simple algorithm); parallel decoding of turbo codes using PP interleavers by butterfly networks; upper bounds of the minimum distance for turbo codes with PP interleavers; specific methods to design and find PP interleavers with good bit/frame error rate (BER/FER) performance.

This book will contemplate the nature of our participatory digital media culture, the diversity of actors involved, and how the role of the news librarian has evolved-from information gatekeeper to knowledge networker, collaborating and facilitating content creation with print and broadcast media professionals.

The book provides readers with a snapshot of recent research and industrial trends in field of industrial acoustics and vibration.

Seeking the Truth from Mobile Evidence: Basic Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced Overview of Current Mobile Forensic Investigations will assist those who have never collected mobile evidence and augment the work of professionals who are not currently performing advanced destructive techniques.

As data represent a key asset for today's organizations, the problem of how to protect this data from theft and misuse is at the forefront of these organizations' minds.

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This book focuses on recent advances and different research areas in multi-modal data fusion under healthcare informatics and seeks out theoretical, methodological, well-established and validated empirical work dealing with these different topics.

The three-volume set LNCS 13747, LNCS 13748 and LNCS 13749 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, TCC 2022, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in November 2022.

The three-volume set, consisting of LNCS 10116, 10117, and 10118, contains carefully reviewed and selected papers presented at 17 workshops held in conjunction with the 13th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2016, in Taipei, Taiwan in November 2016.

The book discusses modern channel coding techniques for wireless communications such as turbo codes, low parity check codes (LDPC), space-time coding, Reed Solomon (RS) codes and convolutional codes.

Basics of Software Engineering Experimentation is a practical guide to experimentation in a field which has long been underpinned by suppositions, assumptions, speculations and beliefs.

This book synthesizes existing research on human-centered data discovery, as well as the recommendations which exist for supporting the design of sustainable, user-centered data search systems.

The book deals with the application of various measures of information like the entropy, divergence, inaccuracy, etc.

The book is devoted to systems with discontinuous control.

A 'science of cities and regions' is critical for meeting future challenges.