The first volume of the Trends in Corrections: Interviews with Corrections Leaders Around the World series introduced readers to the great diversity that exists cross-culturally in the political, social, and economic context of the correctional system.
This book contains papers on selected aspects of dependability analysis in computer systems and networks, which were chosen for discussion during the 16th DepCoS-RELCOMEX conference held in Wroclaw, Poland, from June 28 to July 2, 2021.
This edited book, Introduction to Cyber Forensic Psychology: Understanding the Mind of the Cyber Deviant Perpetrators, is the first of its kind in Singapore, which explores emerging cybercrimes and cyber enabled crimes.
This book presents the outcome of the European project "e;SERENA"e;, involving fourteen partners as international academics, technological companies, and industrial factories, addressing the design and development of a plug-n-play end-to-end cloud architecture, and enabling predictive maintenance of industrial equipment to be easily exploitable by small and medium manufacturing companies with a very limited data analytics experience.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third EAI International Conference on Smart Grid and Internet of Things, SGIoT 2019, held in TaiChung, Taiwan, in November 2019.
Addressing the pathology of the heart and cardiovascular system from a forensic perspective, Pathology of the Heart and Sudden Death in Forensic Investigations guides the pathologist toward the effective resolution of cases.
This monograph discusses the issues of stability and the control of impulsive systems on hybrid time domains, with systems presented on discrete-time domains, continuous-time domains, and hybrid-time domains (time scales).
Für viele Aufgabenstellungen bei der Automatisierung technischer Systeme und im Bereich der Naturwissenschaften und Wirtschaftswissenschaften benötigt man genaue mathematische Modelle für das dynamische Verhalten von Systemen.
From the contents:Neural networks theory and applications: NNs (= neural networks) classifier on continuous data domains quantum associative memory a new class of neuron-like discrete filters to image processing modular NNs for improving generalisation properties presynaptic inhibition modelling for image processing application NN recognition system for a curvature primal sketch NN based nonlinear temporal-spatial noise rejection system relaxation rate for improving Hopfield network Oja's NN and influence of the learning gain on its dynamics Genetic algorithms theory and applications: transposition: a biological-inspired mechanism to use with GAs (= genetic algorithms) GA for decision tree induction optimising decision classifications using GAs scheduling tasks with intertask communication onto multiprocessors by GAs design of robust networks with GA effect of degenerate coding on GAs multiple traffic signal control using a GA evolving musical harmonisation niched-penalty approach for constraint handling in GAs GA with dynamic population size GA with dynamic niche clustering for multimodal function optimisationSoft computing and uncertainty: self-adaptation of evolutionary constructed decision trees by information spreading evolutionary programming of near optimal NNs
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.
For more than 30 years, this comprehensive manual has been the standard introduction and complete reference for writing articles and books containing mathematical formulas.
This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and techniques used in biometric recognition to students, practitioners, and non-experts in the field.
Interpreting Bone Lesions and Pathology for Forensic Practice presents a concise description of the necessary steps for the differential diagnosis of disease and trauma on skeletal remains.
Recipient of the SJSU San Jose State University Annual Author & Artist Awards 2019Recipient of the SJSU San Jose State University Annual Author & Artist Awards 2018Cybersecurity, or information technology security, focuses on protecting computers and data from criminal behavior.
This book shows how supervisory control theory (SCT) supports the formulation of various control problems of standard types, like the synthesis of controlled dynamic invariants by state feedback, and the resolution of such problems in terms of naturally definable control-theoretic concepts and properties, like reachability, controllability and observability.
Comprehensive and reliable, Blackstone's Handbook for Policing Students 2022 is the ideal companion for the multitude of avenues into policing now open to future police officers, from pre-join degree courses and degree apprenticeships to progression from serving as a Special or working as a PCSO.
Evidence-based policing is based on the straightforward, but powerful, idea that crime prevention and crime control policy should be based on what works best in promoting public safety, as determined by the best available scientific evidence.
This two-volume set of LNCS 12146 and 12147 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2020, held in Rome, Italy, in October 2020.
Although there is an emerging literature on the topic, this is the first book that attempts to present a systematic theory of estimation and control over communication networks.
A Financial Times Book to Read in 2022Operation Car Wash is the inside story of two Brazilian Federal Police officers who found themselves at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in history; uncovering a web of political and corporate racketeering which would lead them all the way to the arrest and imprisonment of the nation's President.
This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2023 7th Chinese Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control (CCSICC2023), held in Nanjing, China on November 17-19, 2023.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Smart Blockchain, SmartBlock 2019, held in Birmingham, UK, in October 2019.
Motivation Stochastic Linear Programming with recourse represents one of the more widely applicable models for incorporating uncertainty within in which the SLP optimization models.
The most astounding development in information explosion has been the geometric expansion of trade, commerce, entertainment and information jointly known as the internet or the web.
Fuzzy Logic Foundations and Industrial Applications is an organized edited collection of contributed chapters covering basic fuzzy logic theory, fuzzy linear programming, and applications.
This highly original book challenges social choice theory by arguing for the importance of dynamic preferences and context in understanding important social phenomena.
Along with firearms, tool marks, fingerprints, and footwear, the analysis of tire marks is a key area within the forensic discipline of impression evidence.
The theory of foliations and contact forms have experienced such great de- velopment recently that it is natural they have implications in the field of mechanics.
Evolutionary Learning Algorithms for Neural Adaptive Control is an advanced textbook, which investigates how neural networks and genetic algorithms can be applied to difficult adaptive control problems which conventional results are either unable to solve , or for which they can not provide satisfactory results.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2017, held in Xi'an, China, in November 2017.
