Information theory

Information is a core concept in animal communication: individuals routinely produce, acquire, process and store information, which provides the basis for their social life.

This book reports on cutting-edge theories and methods for analyzing complex systems, such as transportation and communication networks and discusses multi-disciplinary approaches to dependability problems encountered when dealing with complex systems in practice.

The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP TC 5, WG 8.

This book advances a new interdisciplinary approach that engages with the concepts of science and literature through the mediation of philosophy (with a focus on the ideas of Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze).

This book has been written for several reasons, not all of which are academic.

This book describes how control of distributed systems can be advanced by an integration of control, communication, and computation.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is the leading sponsor of basic academic research in engineering, and its influence far exceeds its budget.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 10th Ecuadorian Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, TICEC 2022, held in Manta, Ecuador, in October 2022.

This volume explores state-of-the-art developments in theoretical and applied fluid mechanics with a focus on stabilization and control.

This volume collects ten surveys on the modeling, simulation, and applications of active particles using methods ranging from mathematical kinetic theory to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics.

This book presents the latest tools, techniques, and solutions that decision makers use to overcome the challenges faced by their sustainable supply chains.

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Die morphologischen Operatoren werden durch einfache mathematische Begriffe definiert und durch didaktische An- sätze und Illustrationen erklärt.

This multidisciplinary volume is the second in the STEAM-H series to feature invited contributions on mathematical applications in naval engineering.

About half a century ago Landau formulated the central principles of the phe- nomenological second-order phase transition theory which is based on the idea of spontaneous symmetry breaking at phase transition.

The present book is devoted to problems of adaptation of artificial neural networks to robust fault diagnosis schemes.

This book evolved from a one-year sequence of courses offered by the authors at Iowa State University.

Recent developments in model-predictive control promise remarkable opportunities for designing multi-input, multi-output control systems and improving the control of single-input, single-output systems.

Content-Based Image And Video Retrieval addresses the basic concepts and techniques for designing content-based image and video retrieval systems.

The four-volume set LNCS 14369 until 14372 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Theory of Cryptography, TCC 2023, held in Taipei, Taiwan, in November/December 2023.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2021, which took place in Tianjin, China, during December 17-19, 2021.

The recent technological advances have made it possible to deploy small, l- power, low-bandwidth, and multi-functional wireless sensor nodes to monitor and report the conditions and events in their local environments.

This book is a relevant reference for any readers interested in the security aspects of Cyber-Physical Systems and particularly useful for those looking to keep informed on the latest advances in this dynamic area.

This treatment of modern topics relatedto the control of nonlinear systems is a collection of contributionscelebrating the work of Professor Henk Nijmeijer and honoring his 60thbirthday.

A new class of provably capacity achieving error-correction codes, polar codes are suitable for many problems, such as lossless and lossy source coding, problems with side information, multiple access channel, etc.

This book offers a thorough introduction to the highly promising complex agent-based approach to economics, in which agent-based models (ABMs) are used to represent economic systems as complex and evolving systems composed of heterogeneous agents of limited rationality who interact with each other, generating the system's emergent properties in the process.

This monograph presents a systematic top-down approach to distributed control synthesis of discrete-event systems (DES).

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 8.

The proposed book presents recent breakthroughs for the control of distributed parameter systems and follows on from a workshop devoted to this topic.

As the title of the book suggests, the topics of this book are organized into two parts.

The book presents the proceedings of two conferences: The 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'20) and The 4th International Conference on Applied Cognitive Computing (ACC'20).

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2017, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in August 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Lightweight Cryptography for Security and Privacy, LightSec 2016, held in Aksaray, Turkey, in September 2016.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th China Conference onMachine Translation, CCMT 2022, held in Lhasa, China, during August 6-10, 2022.

The purpose of this book is to introduce two recent topics in mathematical physics and probability theory: the Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE) and interacting particle systems related to random matrix theory.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems Security, ICISS 2017, held in Mumbai, India, in December 2017.

Es vergeht kein Tag, ohne dass uns Nachrichten von Konflikten in unserer näheren oder weiteren Umgebung erreichen, die sich zutreffend nur als Krieg bezeichnen lassen.

A large-scale system is composed of several interconnected subsystems.

The six-volume set LNCS 10404-10409 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2017, held in Trieste, Italy, in July 2017.

This book is an introduction to a comprehensive and unified dynamic transition theory for dissipative systems and to applications of the theory to a range of problems in the nonlinear sciences.

Control theory has applications to a number of areas in engineering and communication theory.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics, CALDAM 2020, held in Hyderabad, India, in February 2020.

This book discusses the effect that artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) have on industry.

This book examines some issues involving climate change, human trafficking, and other serious world challenges made worse by climate change.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2019, held in Gottingen, Germany, in August 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Gerotechnology, IWoG 2019, held in Caceres, Spain, in September 2019.

Evolutionary algorithms constitute a class of well-known algorithms, which are designed based on the Darwinian theory of evolution and Mendelian theory of heritage.