Information theory

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2021, which was held virtually in June 2021.

Homicide Case Studies is a first-of-its-kind text, offering readers more than 30 case studies drawn from real-world homicide cases that include the often-overlooked context and complexities faced by victims, offenders, law enforcement, attorneys, jurors, and correctional personnel.

Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory Manual, Second Edition, is written by a former crime scene investigator and forensic scientist who provides practical, straightforward, and immediately applicable best practices.

This volume investigates the challenges and opportunities for designing, manufacturing and operating off-Earth infrastructures in order to establish adaptive human habitats.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Queueing Theory and Network Applications, QTNA 2019, held in Ghent, Belgium, in August 2019.

This book presents select, recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems reported at the 1st Online Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity, held on November 23-25, 2020.

Forensic Botany: Principles and Applications to Criminal Casework, Second Edition updates what, at the time, was the very first book published on the subject.

This book presents advances in security assurance for cyber-physical systems (CPS) and report on new machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches and technologies developed by the research community and the industry to address the challenges faced by this emerging field.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2017, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in July 2017.

Dental Wear in Evolutionary and Biocultural Contexts provides a single source for disseminating the current state-of-the-art research regarding dental wear across a variety of hominoid species under a number of temporal and spatial contexts.

This book focuses on the use of The Internet of Things (IoT) and big data in business intelligence, data management, Hadoop, machine learning, cloud, smart cities, etc.

Techniques of optimization are applied in many problems in economics, automatic control, engineering, etc.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, Cellular Automata, ACRI 2024, held in Florence, Italy, in September 9-11, 2024.

This book aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working across domains and research disciplines to measure, model, and visualize complex networks.

Fundamentals of Forensic DNA Typing is written with a broad viewpoint.

This book is part of a two volume set which presents the analysis of nonlinear phenomena as a long-standing challenge for research in basic and applied science as well as engineering.

This two-volume set (CCIS 905 and CCIS 906) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2018, held in Dehradun, India, in April 2018.

Fundamentals of Medical Practice Investigation fills an important gap in the resources for criminal investigators.

This Synthesis Lecture presents a discussion of Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless networks over unlicensed spectrum.

This book presents the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA 2018), held at Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam.

This book is designed to provide a path for the reader into an amalgamation oftwo venerable areas ofmathematics, Dynamical Systems and Number Theory.

The book covers Blockchain Technology and its emerging field by developing socio-economic systems viz.

Forensic Science: The Basics, Fourth Edition is fully updated, building on the popularity of the prior editions.

Data mining deals with finding patterns in data that are by user-definition, interesting and valid.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2022, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2022, which was held virtually in June/July 2022.

This book is an enhanced and expanded English edition of the treatise "e;Fondamenti matematici e analisi numerica della dinamica di un Universo isotropo,"e; published by the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino in volume no.

This monograph explores applications of Carleman estimates in the study of stabilization and controllability properties of partial differential equations, including the stabilization property of the damped wave equation and the null-controllability of the heat equation.

Wie wirklich ist die Wirklichkeit?

This volume of proceedings contains research results within the framework of the fields of Chaos, Fractals and Complexity, written by experienced professors, young researchers, and applied scientists.

Scalable High Performance Computing for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area.

The three-volume set, LNCS 11692, LNCS 11693, and LNCS 11694, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2019, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in August 2019.

This volume, which is dedicated to Heinz Langer, includes biographical material and carefully selected papers.

Focusing on forensic serology and forensic DNA analysis, this book introduces students to the methods and techniques utilized by forensic biology laboratories.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2023, held in Barcelona, Spain, during September 4-7, 2023.

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for "e;Smart Master Planning"e; for all metropolises, megacities and meta cities as well as at sub-city zonal and community and neighborhood level.

Designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses, this book goes beyond the simple analysis of naming a drug or toxin, taking a mechanistic approach to their effects on the body.

This two-volume set constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Advanced Hybrid Information Processing, ADHIP 2020, held in Binzhou, China, in September 2020.

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

In the continued quest for increased economic benefits from our water resources, numerous structures and operating policies for controlling the river flow have been built and implemented.

Data mining has emerged as a significant technology for gaining knowledge from vast quantities of data.

The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on finance, with a special focus on stock markets.

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

This book organizes and explains, in a systematic and pedagogically effective manner, recent advances in path integral solution techniques with applications in stochastic engineering dynamics.

Compiled with the most sophisticated chromatographic and spectrometric instruments available, this complete and self-contained seven-volume reference provides forensic, toxicology, and clinical laboratories with up-to-date information on 1,600 drugs and drug-related compounds-one of the largest collections of analytical data generated from a single source.

Nowadays, online technologies are the core of most fields of engineering and the whole society and are inseparable connected for example with Internet of Things & Industrial Internet of Things (Industry 4.

With the unifying theme of abstract evolutionary equations, both linear and nonlinear, in a complex environment, the book presents a multidisciplinary blend of topics, spanning the fields of theoretical and applied functional analysis, partial differential equations, probability theory and numerical analysis applied to various models coming from theoretical physics, biology, engineering and complexity theory.

Forensic Biology provides coordinated expert content from world-renowned leading authorities in forensic biology.

Individuals who perpetrate murder sometimes pose or reposition victims, weapons, and evidence to make it look like events happened in a different way than what actually transpired.

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