The structure of this text is simple and transparent, enabling the easy mapping of the text onto a one-semester course syllabus and the attendant study.
Among the group of physics honors students huddled in 1957 on a Colorado mountain watching Sputnik bisect the heavens, one young scientist was destined, three short years later, to become a key player in America's own top-secret spy satellite program.
This book presents the results of several years' research work on how to characterize complexity in engineering design with a specific regard to dependency modeling.
Cryptography is now ubiquitous - moving beyond the traditional environments, such as government communications and banking systems, we see cryptographic techniques realized in Web browsers, e-mail programs, cell phones, manufacturing systems, embedded software, smart buildings, cars, and even medical implants.
This textbook takes the reader on a tour of the most important landmarks of theoretical physics: classical, quantum, and statistical mechanics, relativity, electrodynamics, as well as the most modern and exciting of all: elementary particles and the physics of fractals.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the satellite events held at the XXX Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2025, held in Portoroz, Slovenia, during June 1–2, 2025.
This book constitutes short papers, Doctoral Consortium and workshop papers which were presented at the 29th European Conference on New Trends in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2025, which took place in Tampere, Finland, during September 23-26, 2025.
This book constitutes short papers, Doctoral Consortium and workshop papers which were presented at the 29th European Conference on New Trends in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2025, which took place in Tampere, Finland, during September 23-26, 2025.
This book offers an in-depth review of kinetically constrained models (KCMs), a topic that lies at the crossroads of probability and statistical mechanics.
This self-contained introduction to modern cryptography emphasizes the mathematics behind the theory of public key cryptosystems and digital signature schemes.
"e;Complex Systems: Fractionality, Time-delay and Synchronization"e; covers the most recent developments and advances in the theory and application of complex systems in these areas.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2012, held in Palermo, Italy, in September 2012 under the sponsorship of the UNESCO chair in Data Privacy.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, ICT-Eur Asia 2014, with the collocation of Asia ARES 2014 as a special track on Availability, Reliability and Security, held in Bali, Indonesia, in April 2014.
We are rapidly heading towards a world in which the computing infrastructure will contain billions of devices, which will interact with other computing/communications devices that are carried or worn by users as they go through their daily routines.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2025, held in Valencia, Spain, during September 15-18, 2025.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2025, held in Valencia, Spain, during September 15-18, 2025.
"e;Fractional-Order Nonlinear Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation"e; presents a study of fractional-order chaotic systems accompanied by Matlab programs for simulating their state space trajectories, which are shown in the illustrations in the book.
This completely revised edition of the classical book on Statistical Mechanics covers the basic concepts of equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics.
When we contemplate phenomena as diverse as electrochemical deposition or the spatial patterns of urban development, it is natural to assume that they havenothing incommon.
Our aim is to introduce, explain, and discuss the fundamental problems, ideas, concepts, results, and methods of the theory of dynamical systems and to show how they can be used in speci?
Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms are established tools for the solution of computationally hard problems arising in computer science, business adm- istration, engineering, biology, and various other disciplines.
The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings which are organized in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania.
In addition to a deductive approach to equilibrium statistics and thermodynamics based on a single hypothesis - the form of the microcanonical density matrix - this book treats the most important elements of non-equilibrium phenomena.
Privacy in statistical databases is a discipline whose purpose is to provide so- tionstothetensionbetweenthesocial,political,economicandcorporatedemand for accurate information, and the legal and ethical obligation to protect the p- vacy of the various parties involved.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Coding and Cryptology, IWCC 2009, held in Zhangjiajie, China, in June 2009.
This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Smart Business Technologies, ICSBT 2024, which took place in Dijon, France, during July 9–10, 2024.
This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Smart Business Technologies, ICSBT 2024, which took place in Dijon, France, during July 9–10, 2024.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2025, which took place in Tampere, Finland, during September 23-26, 2025.
This book includes high-quality papers presented at the Third International Conference on Data Science and Management (ICDSM 2024), organized by the Gandhi Institute for Education and Technology, Bhubaneswar, from December 13–14, 2024.
This book includes high-quality papers presented at the Third International Conference on Data Science and Management (ICDSM 2024), organized by the Gandhi Institute for Education and Technology, Bhubaneswar, from December 13–14, 2024.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2025, which took place in Tampere, Finland, during September 23-26, 2025.
This book shows the exploration and integration of data-driven approaches within cyber-physical systems (CPS), focusing on how these systems leverage data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to enhance performance, optimize real-time decision-making, and improve the interaction between physical and digital components.
This book shows the exploration and integration of data-driven approaches within cyber-physical systems (CPS), focusing on how these systems leverage data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to enhance performance, optimize real-time decision-making, and improve the interaction between physical and digital components.
Written from the perspective of an experienced IT expert, this book leverages a maturity model framework to guide organizations through each stage of adopting, securing, scaling, and tracking the value of low-code AI responsibly and efficiently.
Written from the perspective of an experienced IT expert, this book leverages a maturity model framework to guide organizations through each stage of adopting, securing, scaling, and tracking the value of low-code AI responsibly and efficiently.
