Information theory

This book presents high-quality research papers presented at the Third International Conference on Smart Computing and Cyber Security: Strategic Foresight, Security Challenges and Innovation (SMARTCYBER 2023) held during December 5-6, 2023, in the Department of Smart Computing, Kyungdong University, Global Campus, South Korea.

This book discusses and compares several new trends that can be used to overcome Moore's law limitations, including Neuromorphic, Approximate, Parallel, In Memory, and Quantum Computing.

The book represents the first attempt to systematically deal with the use of deep neural networks to forecast chaotic time series.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms, WAOA 2023, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, during September 7-8, 2023The 16 full papers included in this book are carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions.

Forensic Criminology gives students of criminology and criminal justice an introduction to the forensic realm and the applied forensic issues they will face when working cases within the justice system.

Stochastic control theory is a relatively young branch of mathematics.

This monograph offers a new foundation for information theory that is based on the notion of information-as-distinctions, being directly measured by logical entropy, and on the re-quantification as Shannon entropy, which is the fundamental concept for the theory of coding and communications.

In this thesis two variants of the fast variable elimination method are developed.

Single sourcing is more than mechanical document conversion.

Integrity and honesty are the hallmarks of science - and especially so in the case of forensic science - making the study and practice of ethics essential to the field.

This book provides the most recent security, privacy, technical and legal challenges in the IoT environments.

This book highlights recent advances in nonlinear dynamics and control with applications in mechanics and physics.

This monograph explores a consistent modeling and analytic framework that provides the tools for an improved understanding of the behavior and the building of efficient models of power systems.

The aim of this Book is to give an overview, based on the results of nearly three decades of intensive research, of transient chaos.

Forensic Examination of Signatures explains the neuroscience and kinematics of signature production, giving specific details of research carried out on the topic.

This book discusses and compares several new trends that can be used to overcome Moore's law limitations, including Neuromorphic, Approximate, Parallel, In Memory, and Quantum Computing.

This book examines the legal and policy aspects of cyber-security.

A coherent and comprehensive theory of visual pattern classification with quantitative models, verifiable predictions and extensive empirical evidence.

This book offers a first-hand insight into the work of policing scholars and the research that they undertake.

This monograph deals with control problems of discrete-time dynamical systems which include linear and nonlinear input/output relations In its present second enlarged edition the control problems of linear and non-linear dynamical systems will be solved as algebraically as possible.

Based on the study of a police organization in England, this book explores the role of social relations in the ways that people construct, mobilize, consume, and reconstruct meaning about wellbeing.

This book reports on cutting-edge experimental and numerical findings related to the application of active bearings, including smart ones, in rotating machinery.

Development of new techniques and methods for analysis of controlled substances brings a different way of considering drug analysis, which is articulated for the first time in this new text.

This book introduces the reader to the study of Hamiltonian systems, focusing on the stability of autonomous and periodic systems and expanding to topics that are usually not covered by the canonical literature in the field.

The four-volume set CCIS 1580, CCIS 1581, CCIS 1582, and CCIS 1583 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, which was held virtually in June - July 2022.

Therapy: The Basics is an introductory book to psychotherapy and its different theoretical approaches.

This book constitutes selected papers presented at the 5th International Workshop on Software Foundations for Data Interoperability, SFDI 2021, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2021.

This book focuses on the human aspects of wearable technologies and game design, which are often neglected.

Complete guide to genetics, evolution, and variation in human tooth crown and root morphology in modern and fossil Homo sapiens.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research, MOTOR 2022, held in Petrozavodsk, Russia, in July 2022.

This book contains the proceedings as well as invited papers for the first annual conference of the UNESCO Unitwin Complex System Digital Campus (CSDC), which is an international initiative gathering 120 Universities on four continents, and structured in ten E-Departments.

A one-stop resource for understanding historical and contemporary perspectives on ideological extremism in law enforcement, as well as its wider impacts on American society.

This book focuses on the integration of blockchain technology for IoT systems, exploring the methodologies behind each component of the system to bolster the data security and protect privacy.

The history of public health has focused on direct relationships between problems and solutions: vaccinations against diseases, ad campaigns targeting risky behaviors.

This book provides readers with an introduction to m-polar fuzzy graphs and m-polar fuzzy hypergraphs, covering both theories and applications.

This three volume set of LNCS 12207, 12208 and 12209 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.

YUNMIN ZHU In the past two decades, multi sensor or multi-source information fusion tech- niques have attracted more and more attention in practice, where observations are processed in a distributed manner and decisions or estimates are made at the individual processors, and processed data (or compressed observations) are then transmitted to a fusion center where the final global decision or estimate is made.

This is the second edition of a well-received book.

Most businesses are aware of the danger posed by malicious network intruders and other internal and external security threats.

Accident analysis is not like a classroom problem where the equations are selected and solved, and the matter is considered closed.

This book reports on the latest knowledge concerning critical phenomena arising in fluid-structure interaction due to movement and/or deformation of bodies.

Das Buch liefert in Theorie und Praxis eine durchgehende und vollständige Darstellung des Entwicklungs-Prozesses von Eingebetteten Systemen mit den Phasen Analyse, Entwurf, Implementierung und Test.

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are vulnerable to cyberattacks and security breaches that could unlock the door for cybercriminals to penetrate hospital networks.

This volume contains a selection of expository articles on quantum field theory and statistical mechanics by James Glimm and Arthur Jaffe.