Information theory

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Innovations for Community Services, I4CS 2020, held in Bhubaneswar, India, in January, 2020.

More than merely describing the evolution of human rights and civil liberties law, this classic textbook provides students with detailed and thought-provoking coverage of the most crucial developments in the field, clearly explaining the law in context and practice.

Over the last 50 years there have been an increasing number of applications of algebraic tools to solve problems in communications, in particular in the fields of error-control codes and cryptography.

In einer Welt, die von rasanten Veränderungen und ständig wachsenden Herausforderungen geprägt ist, steht die Frage nach der richtigen Skalierung agiler Methoden im Zentrum der Unternehmensstrategie.

In the wake of the Daubert ruling, the use of forensic toolmark evidence in court has been problematic, in that the conclusions of forensic scientists as to toolmark origin often lack scientifically sound statistical proof.

Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science.

This book explores discrete-time dynamic optimization and provides a detailed introduction to both deterministic and stochastic models.

This book presents the latest research and developments in forensic archaeology, as discussed at the European Meetings on Forensic Archaeology (EMFA) from 2018 to 2023.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences, KSS 2024, held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, during November 16-17, 2024.

Approximately 80 percent of the worlds population now owns a cell phone, which can hold evidence or contain logs about communications concerning a crime.

This book presents a multidisciplinary collection of original contributions made by the leading scholars and practitioners on researching, building, and maintaining sustainable agricultural systems.

This book describes cutting-edge research and technologies aimed at increasing the efficiency of production processes and supporting the implementation of Industry 4.

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 covers a variety of smart IoT applications for industry and research.

This book presents cognition of the universality of systems theory thinking by using some ordinary physical phenomena and their methods in study, of which the involved treatments are consistent with the viewpoint of systems theory.

This book primarily provides assistance to litigators who find themselves acting for or against firms in contentious regulatory matters.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2020, held in Enschede, The Netherlands, in September 2020.

This monograph examines the stability of various coupled systems with local Kelvin-Voigt damping.

Psychiatric Expert Testimony: Emerging Applications is for practitioners who need to be at the cutting edge of admissibility in court.

The problems of interrelation between human economics and natural environment include scientific, technical, economic, demographic, social, political and other aspects that are studied by scientists of many specialities.

A Guide to National Security offers an analysis of the threats and policy responses facing the UK, presented within the framework of the Government's National Security Strategy and the Strategic Defence and Security Review.

This book on complexity science comprises a collection of chapters on methods and principles from a wide variety of disciplinary fields - from physics and chemistry to biology and the social sciences.

This book targets the critical issue of decision making in uncertain conditions and situations.

This book includes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Smart Technologies & Education (STE2024).

Excited about the new Google phone?

This book focuses on the convergence of energy, communication and computation in the beyond 5G (B5G) cellular Internet of Things (IoT).

Few technologies in recent years have attracted as much scientific, media and public attention as Virtual Reality.

This volume contains the proceedings of the IFIPTM 2008, the Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, held in Trondheim, Norway from June 18 to June 20, 2008.

This book may be regarded as consisting of two parts.

Experts in the field of bitemark evidence confront complexities ranging from the identification and collection of evidence, to microscopic analysis, to legal implications and courtroom admissibility.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023, which took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2023.

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

As witnessed in landmark criminal cases, the quality and integrity of bloodstain evidence can be a crucial factor in determining a verdict.

Robust Integration of Model-Based Fault Estimation and Fault-Tolerant Control is a systematic examination of methods used to overcome the inevitable system uncertainties arising when a fault estimation (FE) function and a fault-tolerant controller interact as they are employed together to compensate for system faults and maintain robustly acceptable system performance.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in and activity at the interface between physics and biology, with the realization that both subjects have a great deal to learn from and to teach to one another.

This book focuses on the design methods for reconfigurable computing processors for cryptographic algorithms.

Estimation of Time since Death in Australian Conditions collates data about decomposed bodies found in the eastern states of Australia from the years 2000 to 2010.

This book presents LTE evolution towards 5G mobile communication and the emergence of new requirements for MBB, MTC and LLC services.

This advanced textbook introduces the main concepts and advances in systems and control theory, and highlights the importance of geometric ideas in the context of possible extensions to the more recent developments in nonlinear systems theory.

This book focuses on modelling and simulation, control and optimization, signal processing, and forecasting in selected nonlinear dynamical systems, presenting both literature reviews and novel concepts.

SNOMED CT wird zunehmend auch in Deutschland als wesentlicher Baustein innovativer digitaler Gesundheitsanwendungen verwendet.

Blackstone's Handbook of Ports & Border Security is a practical, portable handbook for police officers and other professionals concerned with security and crime prevention at all UK ports and borders.

This book comprises select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Innovative Computing which was held in Bangkok, Thailand, Jan 19-23, 2025 (IC 2025) focusing on cutting-edge research carried out in the areas of information technology, science, and engineering.

Numerical Optimization presents a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the most effective methods in continuous optimization.

This book offers a short and concise introduction to the many facets of chaos theory.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2021, which took place virtually during June 24-25, 2021.

This book introduces a refreshing approach to twenty-first-century scientific approach in an age, which is also known as the Century of Complexity.