Information theory

Forensic Victimology: Examining Violent Crimes in Investigative and Legal Contexts, Third Edition introduces criminologists and criminal investigators to the idea of systematically gathering and examining victim information for the purposes of addressing investigative and forensic issues.

There is broad interest in feature extraction, construction, and selection among practitioners from statistics, pattern recognition, and data mining to machine learning.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, held as Part of the 27th International Conference, HCI International 2025, in Gothenburg, Sweden, during June 22–27, 2025.

This proceedings constitutes selected papers from the Workshops KGMA and SemiBDMA which were held in conjunction with APWeb-WAIM 2023 which took place in Wuhan, China, during October 6-8, 2023.

This book is a study of the interactions between different types of systems, their environment, and their subsystems.

This book discusses technology and systems to create valuable ideas from data through the construction of knowledge.

This volume constitutes selected papers presented during the 8th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing, META 2021, held in Marrakech, Morocco, in October 201.

This textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of anomalous stochastic processes and extreme events, commonly referred to as "e;black swans,"e; with a particular focus on (multi-)fractal approaches and continuous-time random walks.

This collection reviews developments in DNA profiling across jurisdictions with a focus on scientific and technological developments as well as their political, ethical, and socio-legal aspects.

The two volume set CCIS 775 and 776 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics, CICBA 2017, held in Kolkata, India, in March 2017.

Evaluations of a defendant's competence to stand trial (CST) are probably the most frequently performed forensic evaluations, with estimates in the United States ranging from 60,000 to 70,000 annually.

This book provides a unifying approach to the study of statistical laws, critically evaluating their role in the theoretical understanding of complex systems and the different data-analysis methods used to evaluate them.

This book offers fundamental information on the analysis and synthesis of continuous and sampled data control systems.

This book concerns digital communication.

This textbook presents the theory of continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems and shows how it can be used to solve analytically different problems.

This book shows that evolutionary game theory can unravel how mutual cooperation, trust, and credit in a group emerge in organizations and institutions.

This book focuses on the key technology applied Internet of things and smart grid, which include some novel ICT technologies such as big data, edge computing, 5G, and wide area wireless communication technology.

Es scheint so, dass Zeit und Information in einem gewissen Wechselverhältnis stehen.

The sixth edition provides expanded Discussion and Comments and References sections at the end of each chapter, creating a spotlight on practical applications of the theory presented in that chapter.

The major purpose of this book is to introduce the main concepts of discrete optimization problems which have a finite number of feasible solutions.

Contract and procurement fraud, collusion, and corruption are worldwide problems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2023, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, during October 30-November 3, 2023.

This book provides a practically-oriented introduction to high-level programming language implementation.

The architectural concept of a memory hierarchy has been immensely successful, making possible today's spectacular pace of technology evolution in both the volume of data and the speed of data access.

While environmental catastrophes can be naturally occurring, often they are the result of criminal intent or malfeasance.

This book explains the motivation for using microphone arrays as opposed to using a single sensor for sound acquisition.

Bayesian Inference of State Space Models: Kalman Filtering and Beyond offers a comprehensive introduction to Bayesian estimation and forecasting for state space models.

This book chronicles a 10-year introduction of blended learning into the delivery at a leading technological university, with a longstanding tradition of technology-enabled teaching and learning, and state-of-the-art infrastructure.

This book contains advances on the theory and applications of time-delay systems with particular focus on interconnected systems.

The Soft Machine, originally published in 1985, represents a significant contribution to the study of contemporary literature in the larger cultural and scientific context.

Der Gegenstand der Soziologie ist das Politische, auch außerhalb ihres eigens dafür vorgesehenen Ressorts, der politischen Soziologie.

This contributed volume explores the achievements gained and the remaining puzzling questions by applying dynamical systems theory to the linguistic inquiry.

A practical introduction to network science for students across business, cognitive science, neuroscience, sociology, biology, engineering and other disciplines.

The classical and quantum dynamics of conservative systems governs the behavior of much of the world around us - from the dynamics of galaxies to the vibration and electronic behavior of molecules and the dynamics of systems formed from or driven by laser radiation.

In the face of growing challenges, we need modes of thinking that allow us to not only grasp complexity but also perform it.

It is over 20 years since the functional data model and functional programming languages were first introduced to the computing community.

Large-scale, highly interconnected networks, which are often modeled as graphs, pervade both our society and the natural world around us.

This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material.

This book provides step-by-step explanations of successful implementations and practical applications of machine learning.

For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers.

Increasing complexity in engineering projects raises difficult challenges in industry and requires effective tools for correct-by-construction design or design verification.

The Behavioral Science of Firearms focuses on applying behavioral science principles and knowledge to inform and improve firearm-related policy, practice, and research.

Decomposition methods aim to reduce large-scale problems to simpler problems.

UNIX achieved its widespread propagation, its penetration of the UNIX history university domain, and its reach into research and industry due to its early dissemination by AT&T to all interested parties at almost no cost and as source code.

Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks Evolving Mobile Broadband from 2G to LTE and Beyond A practical guide enabling mobile operators to deploy IPv6 with confidence The most widely used cellular mobile broadband network technology is based on the 3GPP standards.

Design of Observer-based Compensators facilitates and adds transparency to design in the frequency domain which is not as well-established among control engineers as time domain design.

One of the ultimate goals of materials research is to develop a fun- damental and predictive understanding of the physical and metallurgical properties of metals and alloys.