Information theory

The revised second edition of this textbook provides the reader with a solid foundation in probability theory and statistics as applied to the physical sciences, engineering and related fields.

Based on the recent NATO Advanced Study Institute "e;Chaotic Worlds: From Order to Disorder in Gravitational N-Body Dynamical Systems"e;, this state of the art textbook, written by internationally renowned experts, provides an invaluable reference volume for all students and researchers in gravitational n-body systems.

This book introduces the concepts of identifiability and observability in mathematical epidemiology, as well as those of observers' constructions.

This graduate textbook provides a unified view of quantum information theory.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Databases Theory and Applications, ADC 2022, held in Sydney, Australia, in September 2022.

Selected papers submitted by participants of the international Conference "e;Stochastic Analysis and Applied Probability 2010"e; ( www.

Uncertainties and changes are pervasive characteristics of modern systems involving interactions between humans, economics, nature and technology.

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.

Clustering is an important technique for discovering relatively dense sub-regions or sub-spaces of a multi-dimension data distribution.

This book constitutes revised and selected papers from the scientific satellite events held in conjunction with the18th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2020.

Das Lehrbuch gibt einen systematischen Einstieg in die Signaltheorie und behandelt sowohl die in der Ingenieur-Literatur üblichen Werkzeuge zur Signal- und Systembeschreibung als auch die grundlegenden mathematischen Konzepte zur Interpretation von Signalen als Elemente von Vektorräumen und zur Signal-Approximation.

Using a wealth of anecdotes, data from academic literature, and original research, this very accessible little book highlights how we all struggle to cope with the maelstrom of choices, influences and experiences that come our way.

Das Buch behandelt die heutige roboterorientierte Programmierung mit Roboterprogrammiersprachen und stellt wichtige Konzepte der zukünftigen aufgabenorientierten Programmierung intelligenter Roboter dar, z.

The disparity in access to information is a worldwide phenomenon.

- "e;Find it hard to extract and utilise valuable knowledge from the ever-increasing data deluge?

This book proposes neural networks algorithms and advanced machine learning techniques for processing nonlinear dynamic signals such as audio, speech, financial signals, feedback loops, waveform generation, filtering, equalization, signals from arrays of sensors, and perturbations in the automatic control of industrial production processes.

Quantum information theory has revolutionised our view on the true nature of information and has led to such intriguing topics as teleportation and quantum computation.

Understanding Complex Urban Systems takes as its point of departure the insight that the challenges of global urbanization and the complexity of urban systems cannot be understood - let alone 'managed' - by sectoral and disciplinary approaches alone.

The main new feature of the fifth edition is the addition of a new chapter, Chapter 12, on applications to mathematical finance.

This work presents a study of methods useful for modeling and understanding dynamical systems in the Galaxy.

The two-volume set LNCS 10286 + 10287 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics, and Risk Management, DHM 2017, held as part of HCI International 2017 in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

This book provides an accessible introduction to the variational formulation of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, with a novel emphasis on global descriptions of the dynamics, which is a significant conceptual departure from more traditional approaches based on the use of local coordinates on the configuration manifold.

This book is devoted to the modeling and understandingof complex urban systems.

The purpose of this book is to illustrate the fundamental concepts of complexity and complex behavior and the best methods to characterize this behavior by means of their applications to some current research topics from within the fields of fusion, earth and solar plasmas.

In der modernen IT-Landschaft sind Störungen unvermeidlich – doch wie können sie schnell und effizient behoben werden, ohne den Betrieb zu beeinträchtigen?

The Handbook of Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems establishes an authoritative reference of DDDAS, pioneered by Dr.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of three workshops symposia, held at the 40th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2021, which were held virtually and in St.

In 1995, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the largest public research funding organization in Germany, decided to launch a priority program (Schw- punktprogramm in German) calledKondisk- Dynamics and Control of Systems with Mixed Continuous and Discrete Dynamics.

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is a general framework that allows the macroscopic description of irreversible processes.

The book discusses the potential of higher-order interactions to model real-world relational systems.

Functional analysis owes much of its early impetus to problems that arise in the calculus of variations.

A good deal of the material presented in this book has been prepared by top experts in the field lecturing in January 1987 at the Winter School on Solitons in Tiruchirapalli,India.

This book discusses the intelligent optimization and control of complex metallurgical processes, including intelligent optimization and control of raw-material proportioning processes, coking process, and reheating furnaces; intelligent control of thermal state parameters in sintering processes; and intelligent decoupling control of gas collection and mixing-and-pressurization processes.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th Conference on Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography, TQC 2011, held in Madrid, Spain, in May 2011.

This book introduces the intelligent control technology of heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) water system in detail, studying its thermal distribution characteristics and optimal control methods combining the nonlinearity, strong coupling and delay characteristics to improve the overall operation and maintenance level as well as the energy efficiency of HVAC water system.

This two-volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Advancements in Smart Computing and Information Security, ASCIS 2022, held in Rajkot, India, in November 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Italian Conference on Geomatics for Green and Digital Transition, ASITA 2022, held in Genova, Italy, in June 2022.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Future Learning Aspects of Mechanical Engineering (FLAME) 2020.

This volume LNCS 12925 constitutes the papers of the 23rd International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery, held in September 2021.

Constraints and Databases contains seven contributions on the rapidly evolving research area of constraints and databases.

This book presents a comprehensive and detailed study on iterative learning control (ILC) for systems with iteration-varying trial lengths.

The Annual (ICGS) International Conference is an established platform in which se- rity, safety and sustainability issues can be examined from several global perspectives through dialogue between academics, students, government representatives, chief executives, security professionals, and research scientists from the United Kingdom and from around the globe.

This book highlights advanced applications of geospatial data analytics to address real-world issues in urban society.

According to Putnam to talk of "e;facts"e; without specifying the language to be used is to talk of nothing; "e;object"e; itself has many uses and as we creatively invent new uses of words "e;we find that we can speak of 'objects'that were not 'values of any variable'in 1 any language we previously spoke"e; .

The second edition of "e;Thinking in Complexity"e;, like the first edition, was also sold out in less than one year.