Information theory

This book investigates corruption and anti-corruption efforts in Africa, emphasising the regional and thematic differences across the continent, whilst also exploring key patterns and trends.

This book constitutes selected and revised papers of the 5th International Conference on Space Information Networks, SINC 2020, held in Shenzhen, China, in December 2020.

This book highlights the pulchritudinous features of FRP composites emphasizing failure criteria referring to microstructural as well as micromechanical aspects.

This thesis deals with specific featuresof the theory of holomorphic dynamics in dimension 2 and then sets out to studyanalogous questions in higher dimensions, e.

This book, now in its third edition, explores how human populations grow, based on their creative abilities.

HIS book presents a generalized state-space theory for the analysis T and synthesis of finite horizon suboptimal Hoo controllers.

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 aims to provide a detailed understanding of IoMT-supported applications while engaging premium smart computing methods and improved algorithms in the field of computer science.

This book contains the proceedings of a meeting that brought together friends and colleagues of Guy Rideau at the Universite Denis Diderot (Paris, France) in January 1995.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2022, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, in October 2022.

A wide-ranging discussion of factors that impede the cumulation of knowledge in the social sciences, with suggested solutions.

Based on the interactive program Interquanta, Quantum Mechanics on the Macintosh, uses extensive 3-D graph- ics to guide the student through computer experiments in the quantum mechanics of free particle motion, bound states and scattering, tunneling, two-particle interactions, and more.

Combining theory and practice, this is a comprehensive analysis of suffocation, asphyxiation, and neck pressure deaths.

This book focuses on the nonlinear dynamics based on the vector fields with univariate quadratic functions.

The beginning of the 21st century can be characterized as the"e; time-delay boom"e; leading to numerous important results.

This book includes selected papers presented at the International Conference on Marketing and Technologies (ICMarkTech 2024), held at University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, between December 5 and 7, 2024.

Mapping Information Landscapes presents the first in-depth study of the educational implications of the idea of information literacy as 'the capacity to map and navigate an information landscape'.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Blockchain, ICBC 2020, held as part of SCF 2020, during September 18-20, 2020.

The Soft Machine, originally published in 1985, represents a significant contribution to the study of contemporary literature in the larger cultural and scientific context.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Conference on Intelligence of Things (ICIT 2022), held in Hanoi, Vietnam, in August 2022.

Data quality is one of the most important problems in data management.

Cybernetic pioneer Warren McCullough asked: "e;What is a man, that he may know a number; and what is a number, that a man may know it?

This book gives the definitive mathematical answer to what thermodynamics really is: a variational calculus applied to probability distributions.

This new edition provides both theoretical and practical background of security and forensics for mobile phones.

Entity Framework 6 Recipes provides an exhaustive collection of ready-to-use code solutions for Entity Framework, Microsoft's model-centric, data-access platform for the .

This book focuses on new and emerging data mining solutions that offer a greater level of transparency than existing solutions.

The increased militarization of the police in the United States has been a topic of controversy for decades, brought to the public eye in notable events such as the Los Angeles Police Department's use of battering rams in the 1980s and the siege of the Weaver family at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in the 1990s, among others.

This book is a collation of numerous valuable guidelines for making decisions based on recent advances and improvement of transport systems.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of security issues in Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs), by analyzing the issues and vulnerabilities in CPSs and examining state of the art security measures.

Communication in Investigative and Legal Contexts Despite a number of research studies, there remain significant differences of opinion among psychologists, linguists and other practitioners on how best to describe particular types of questions and communicate most effectively in forensic contexts.

This book introduces the basic concepts of fuzzy collaborative forecasting and clustering, including its methodology, system architecture, and applications.

This textbook provides a mathematical introduction to linear systems, with a focus on the continuous-time models that arise in engineering applications such as electrical circuits and signal processing.

Policing in an Age of Austerity uniquely examines the effects on one key public service: the state police of England and Wales.

This book is an outcome of the interdisciplinary conference held at OP Jindal Global University (Quantum Decision-making and Complexity modeling, and their possible applications in social sciences- economics, finance and public policy).

This Second Edition is an essential guide to understanding, modeling, and predicting complex dynamical systems using new methods with stochastic tools.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2021, organized by the University of Ghent in July 2021.

Reviewed and recognized as the most authoritative source in the field, this book describes the methods used worldwide to recover and identify footwear impressions from the scene of a crime.

Quantum maps are presented with special emphasis on their physical origin.

This book features high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Smart Technologies in Data Science and Communication (SMARTDSC 2022), held Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, on 16 - 17 June 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing, ANTIC 2024, held in Varanasi, India, during December 19-21, 2024.

Biological and chemical weapons are a growing terrorist threat to the United States and other nations and countermeasures continue to evolve as a national and global priority issue.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 22nd International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2019, held in Seoul, South Korea, in December 2019.

The main focus of the book is solvability of cellular automata, that is, expressing the state of a given cell after a given number of steps by an explicit formula.

Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science provides an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the concepts of complexity theory together with the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems in all fields of science and engineering.

Object-oriented databases were originally developed as an alternative to relational database technology for the representation, storage, and access of non-traditional data forms that were increasingly found in advanced applications of database technology.

This book, the third of 15 related monographs, presents systematically a theory of self-independent cubic nonlinear systems.

In wireless communication systems, the network keeps track of a user's location through an up-to-date user profile stored in various databases.