Information theory

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

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking, IWDW 2018, held on Jeju Island, Korea, in October 2018.

Now in its third edition, this book focuses on practical algorithms for mining data from even the largest datasets.

Dynamics of Information Systems: Algorithmic Approaches presents recent developments and results found by participants of the Fourth International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems, which took place at the University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA on February 20-22, 2012.

This edited volume presents examples of social science research projects that employ new methods of quantitative analysis and mathematical modeling of social processes.

This book is for everybody that wants to learn a little bit more about how cybersecurity is becoming more relevant in the connected world, both present and future.

The book discusses the evolution of cellular technology, then focusing in on 5G and its architecture and what it means for current engineers.

With the explosive growth of mobile computing and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, as exemplified by AR/VR, smart city, and video/audio surveillance, billions of mobile and IoT devices are being connected to the Internet, generating zillions of bytes of data at the network edge.

This book examines the bottom-up applicability of swarm intelligence to solving multiple problems, such as curve fitting, image segmentation, and swarm robotics.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2020, which was supposed to be held in Paris, France, in June 2020.

The papers assembled in this book were presented at the biannual symposium of Inter- national Association for Statistical Computing in Neuchcitel, Switzerland, in August of 1992.

The rapid evolution of computer science, communication, and information technology has enabled the application of control techniques to systems beyond the possibilities of control theory just a decade ago.

Providing practical guidance on what remains the single most important statutory basis for police duties and powers in England and Wales - the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) 1984 and its Codes of Practice - this is an essential reference source which the busy police officer or legal practitioner cannot afford to be without.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Codes, Cryptology and Information Security, C2SI 2015, held in Rabat, Morocco, in May 2015.

Force and motion control systems of varying degrees of sophistication have shaped the lives of all individuals living in industrialized countries all over the world, and together with communication technology are largely responsible for the high standard ofliving prevalent in many communities.

This groundbreaking volume of original essays presents fresh avenues of inquiry at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Space Information Network, SINC 2017, held in Yinchuan, China, in August 2017.

This monograph presents the most recent developments in the study of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and control problems with discontinuities, mainly from the viewpoint of partial differential equations.

This book is the first empirical study of police discretion in India.

Combating white-collar crime is a challenge as these criminals are found among the most powerful members of society, including politicians, business executives, and government officials.

The idea of modeling the behaviour of phenomena at multiple scales has become a useful tool in both pure and applied mathematics.

This new edition of the Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation provides expert explanation of the key anti-terrorism legislation.

Over the course of his distinguished career, Claude Viterbo has made a number of groundbreaking contributions in the development of symplectic geometry/topology and Hamiltonian dynamics.

This book is dedicated to improving the practice of the policing of domestic abuse.

Problem-solving courts provide judicially supervised treatment for behavioral health needs commonly found among criminal offenders, including substance abuse and mental health disorders, and they treat a variety of offender populations.

The ten-volume set LNCS 12949 - 12958 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2021, which was held in Cagliari, Italy, during September 13 - 16, 2021.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the scientific satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 15th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2017, held in Malaga, Spain, in November 2017.

This book aims to provide state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of Intelligence of Things to both academic and industrial readers.

This book presents the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA-2017), held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

Attendance at a police station requires representatives to respond to unexpected and rapidly changing events at very short notice.

This book proposes new technologies and discusses future solutions for ICT design infrastructures, as reflected in high-quality papers presented at the 8th International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2024), held in Goa, India, on 8-9 August 2024.

This volume constitutes the refereed and revised post-conference proceedings of the 4th IFIP TC 5 DCITDRR International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2019, in Kyiv, Ukraine, in October 2019.

This book contains papers presented at the 2021 International Conference on Smart Technologies and Systems for Internet of Things, held on November 26-27, 2021, in Shanghai, China.

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This volume contains the proceedings of the Summer Program on Nonlinear Conservation Laws and Applications held at the IMA on July 13--31, 2009.

This book describes and analyzes in detail the encoding effort and the encoding tool usage applied to 3D-HEVC depth map coding.

The three-volume set LNCS 12771-12773 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design, CCD 2021, which was held as part of HCI International 2021 and took place virtually during July 24-29, 2021.

Input-to-State Stability presents the dominating stability paradigm in nonlinear control theory that revolutionized our view on stabilization of nonlinear systems, design of robust nonlinear observers, and stability of nonlinear interconnected control systems.

This volume contains a collection of studies in the areas of complexity theory and property testing.

This third edition of this text covers the key technologies associated with the physical transmission of data on 5G mobile systems.

This book aims to bring together Researchers, Scientists, Engineers, Scholars and Students in the areas of computer engineering and information technology, and provides a forum for the dissemination of original research results, new ideas, Research and development, practical experiments, which concentrate on both theory and practices, for the benefit of the society.

As forensic human identification receives increased global attention, practitioners, policy makers, and students need an appropriate resource that describes current methods and modalities that have shaped today's policies and protocols.

This book describes how complex systems from a variety of fields can be modeled using quantum mechanical ideas; from biology and ecology, to sociology and decision-making.

This book presents concepts for radio engineers to ensure electromagnetic compatibility based on the methodological approaches to reduce the probability of failures of radio equipment and improve the flight safety of complex aerospace systems.

This book examines the relationship between police, media and the public and analyses the shifting techniques and technologies through which they communicate.

One of the lost classics of French philosophy, Cybernetics and the Origin of Information has never before been published in English.

Ermittlungen mit verdeckt arbeitenden Personen haben eine zunehmende praktische Bedeutung für Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft.

This book is intended for specialists in systems engineering interested in new, general techniques and for students and practitioners interested in using these techniques for solving specific practical problems.