Information theory

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This proceedings, HCI-CPT 2024, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, held as Part of the 26th International Conference, HCI International 2024, which took place from June 29 - July 4, 2024 in Washington DC, USA.

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This book provides analytical and numerical methods for the estimation of dimension characteristics (Hausdorff, Fractal, Caratheodory dimensions) for attractors and invariant sets of dynamical systems and cocycles generated by smooth differential equations or maps in finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces or on manifolds.

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This volume describes our intellectual path from the physics of complex sys- tems to the science of artificial cognitive systems.

Through the development of an exact path integral for use in transferring information from observations to a model of the observed system, the author provides a general framework for the discussion of model building and evaluation across disciplines.

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Over the past two decades, network technologies have been remarkably renovated and computer networks, particularly the Internet, have permeated into every facet of our daily lives.

Nonlinear complex open systems show great diversity in the process of self-organization, and that diversity increases as complexity increases.

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Wrongful convictions are the result of faulty or false scientific evidence in 50% of the cases.

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In the first approximation, decision making is nothing else but an optimization problem: We want to select the best alternative.

The material of this book is based on several courses which have been delivered for a long time at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology.

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Fundamental solutions in understanding information have been elusive for a long time.

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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops held at the 33rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2022, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2022: The 6th International Workshop on Cyber-Security and Functional Safety in Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCFS 2022); 4th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs (MLKgraphs 2022); 2nd International Workshop on Time Ordered Data (ProTime2022); 2nd International Workshop on AI System Engineering: Math, Modelling and Software (AISys2022); 1st International Workshop on Distributed Ledgers and Related Technologies (DLRT2022); 1st International Workshop on Applied Research, Technology Transfer and Knowledge Exchange in Software and Data Science (ARTE2022).

This brief provides unified methods for the stabilization of some fractional evolution systems, nicely complementing existing literature on fractional calculus.

This is a primer on a mathematically rigorous renormalisation group theory, presenting mathematical techniques fundamental to renormalisation group analysis such as Gaussian integration, perturbative renormalisation and the stable manifold theorem.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2020, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in November 2020.