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Taking continuous-time stochastic processes allowing for jumps as its starting and focal point, this book provides an accessible introduction to the stochastic calculus and control of semimartingales and explains the basic concepts of Mathematical Finance such as arbitrage theory, hedging, valuation principles, portfolio choice, and term structure modelling.

Cryptography, as done in this century, is heavily mathematical.

This book covers the range of methodological approaches, methods and tools currently used in various areas of building science and technology research and addresses the current lack of research-method literature in this field.

This two-volume set LNICST 280-281 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the 10th EAI International Conference on Wireless and Satellite Services, WiSATS 2019, held in Harbin, China, in January 2019.

This book contains the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Service Sciences (LISS 2020), which is co-organized by Beijing Jiaotong University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, in July 25-28 2020.

The book presents the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on 5G for Ubiquitous Connectivity (5GU 2018), which took place on December 4-5, 2018 in Nanjing, People's Republic of China.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, LATINCRYPT 2017, held in Havana, Cuba, in September 2017.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second EAI International Conference on Sustainable Energy for Smart Cities, SESC 2020, held in Portugal in December 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Graph Transformation, ICGT 2021, which took place virtually during June 24-25, 2021.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on post-quantum cryptography, PQCrypto 2021, held in Daejeon, South Korea in July 2021.

This book is useful to engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and students in different branches of production, engineering, and systems sciences.

The two-volume proceedings set LNCS 12710 and 12711 constitutes the proceedings of the 24th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography, PKC 2021, which was held online during May 10-13, 2021.

This book presents the latest research into CSS methods, uses, and results, as presented at the 2019 annual conference of the CSSSA.

This conference proceedings LNCS 12782 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9 th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, which took place in July 2021.

The 3-volume-set LNCS 12696 - 12698 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 40th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Eurocrypt 2021, which was held in Zagreb, Croatia, during October 17-21, 2021.

This book includes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, which took place in Asan, Korea, on July 1-3, 2021.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 5:  Proceedings of the 39th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2021, the fourth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 11.

This text addresses systems with persistent memory that are common mathematical models used in the study of viscoelasticity and thermodynamics with memory.

This book outlines the recent advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and addresses how useful it is in achieving truly sustainable solutions.

This is the first book on secure quantum network coding, which integrates quantum cryptography into quantum communication.

This book is intended to be a little different from other books in its coverage.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust, STAST 2020, held as a virtual event, in September 2020.

This two-volume set LNICST 286-287 constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the First EAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks, AICON 2019, held in Harbin, China, in May 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cognitive Radio-Oriented Wireless Networks, CROWNCOM 2019, held in Poznan, Poland, in June 2019.

This book presents recent theoretical advances in the analysis and synthesis of discrete-time switched systems under the time-dependent switching scheme, including stability and disturbance attenuation performance analysis, control and filtering, asynchronous switching, finite-time analysis and synthesis, and reachable set estimation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography, PQCrypto 2018, held in Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, in April 2018.

This two-volume set LNCS 11592 and 11593 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2019, held in July 2019 as part of HCI International 2019 in Orlando, FL, USA.

This book reviews dominant crisis communication theories, which according to many scholars are either too narrow or broad for practical application to all types of reputational crises.

The prospect that the psychiatric profession has hurt rather than helped many of its patients is incredibly disheartening; however, wrong diagnoses and improper treatment are all too common errors within the field.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to quantum image processing, which focuses on extending conventional image processing tasks to the quantum computing frameworks.

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2021, held as part of the 23rd International Conference, HCI International 2021, held as a virtual event, in July 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th Annual IFIP WG 11.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Algebraic Informatics, CAI 2019, held in Nis, Serbia, in June/July 2019.

This book sheds new light on the Greek economic challenges and helps readers understand the current debt crisis.

In its second edition, Method in Social Science was widely praised for its penetrating analysis of central questions in social science discourse.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Conference on Security of Industrial Control Systems and Cyber-Physical Systems, CyberICPS 2016, held in Crete, Greece, in September 2016 in conjunction with ESORICS 2016, the 21st annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security.

All human behaviour is, ultimately, a moral undertaking, in which each situation must be considered on its own merits.

This book describes for readers the entire, interconnected complex of theoretical and practical aspects of designing and organizing the production of various electronic devices, the general and main distinguishing feature of which is the high speed of processing and transmitting of digital signals.

This two-volume set LNCS 11662 and 11663 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2019, held in Waterloo, ON, Canada, in August 2019.

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.

This two-volume set LNCS 12205 and LNCS 12206 constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 4th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP 2018, held in Funchal - Madeira, Portugal, in January 2018.

This book provides an interdisciplinary approach to complexity, combining ideas from areas like complex networks, cellular automata, multi-agent systems, self-organization and game theory.

This book addresses information technologies recently applied in the field of construction safety.

This book reports on the latest knowledge concerning critical phenomena arising in fluid-structure interaction due to movement and/or deformation of bodies.

The book describes several techniques used to bridge the semantic gap and reflects on recent advancements in content-based image retrieval (CBIR).

This book is a timely document of state-of-the art analytical techniques in the domain of stream cipher design and analysis with a specific cipher, named ZUC.

This book discusses online engineering and virtual instrumentation, typical working areas for today's engineers and inseparably connected with areas such as Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, collaborative networks and grids, cyber cloud technologies, and service architectures, to name just a few.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 8th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2017, held in Paris, France, in April 2017.