Research and information: general

This book presents high-quality research papers presented at the Second International Conference on Smart Computing and Cyber Security: Strategic Foresight, Security Challenges and Innovation (SMARTCYBER 2021) held during June 16-17, 2021, in the Department of Smart Computing, Kyungdong University, Global Campus, South Korea.

This book is about urban infrastructuring as the processes linking infrastructural configurations and their components with other social, ecological, political, or otherwise defined systems as part of urbanisation and globalisation in the Global South.

The general consensus is that BlockChain is the next disruptive technology, and Ethereum is the flagship product of BlockChain 2.

Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology.

The proceedings focus on selected aspects of the current and upcoming trends in transportation, logistics and decision-making.

This book focuses squarely on the problem of saving local government in the context of extraordinary financial challenges being faced across the globe.

This book gathers papers on recent advances in the ergodic theory of group actions on homogeneous spaces and on geometrically finite hyperbolic manifolds presented at the workshop "e;Geometric and Ergodic Aspects of Group Actions,"e; organized by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India, in 2018.

This book consists of a collection of the high-quality research articles in the field of computer vision and robotics which are presented in the International Conference on Computer Vision and Robotics (CVR 2021), organized by BBD University Lucknow, India, during 7-8 August 2021.

The book is a collection of peer-reviewed best selected research papers presented at the International Conference on Data Intelligence and Cognitive Informatics (ICDICI 2021), organized by SCAD College of Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli, India, during July 6-7, 2022.

This book is a novel tutorial for research-oriented study of vibration mechanics.

This book develops the notion that companies can succeed on the basis of risk management, much as companies compete on efficiency, costs, labor, location, and other dimensions.

This book provides a comprehensive review of industry 4.

This book on complexity science comprises a collection of chapters on methods and principles from a wide variety of disciplinary fields - from physics and chemistry to biology and the social sciences.

The book is a unique exploration of a spectrum of unexpected analogs to psychopathologies likely to afflict real-time critical systems, written by a specialist in the epidemiology of mental disorders.

This book introduces readers to using the simple but effective Zhang-gradient (ZG) method to solve tracking-control problems concerning various nonlinear systems, while also highlighting the applications of the ZG method to tracking control for practical systems, e.

This book introduces various machine learning methods for cyber security analytics.

This book is the first volume of a two-volume edition based on the International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on 'The Information Society at the Crossroads.

This book is mainly focused on the global impulsive synchronization of complex dynamical networks with different types of couplings, such as general state coupling, nonlinear state coupling, time-varying delay coupling, derivative state coupling, proportional delay coupling and distributed delay coupling.

This book focuses on discussing the issues of rating scheme design and risk aggregation of risk matrix, which is a popular risk assessment tool in many fields.

This Pivot proposes an integrated approach to facilitate competency development in a more comprehensive way.

The book covers intimately all the topics necessary for the development of a robust magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code within the framework of the cell-centered finite volume method (FVM) and its applications in space weather study.

This book features high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics (ICCSDF 2021), held at The NorthCap University, Gurugram, Haryana, India, during April 3-4, 2021.

This book gives a thorough and systematic introduction to the latest research results on hesitant fuzzy and its extensions decision making theory.

This book highlights the solution algorithms and characteristic analysis methods of fractional-order chaotic systems.

This book mainly introduces a series of theory and approaches of group decision-making based on several types of uncertain linguistic expressions and addresses their applications.

The book focuses on the Internet of Things and Beidou system application.

This book gathers a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Data and Information Sciences (ICDIS 2022), held at Raja Balwant Singh Engineering Technical Campus, Agra, India, on May 6 - 7, 2022.

This book aims to synthesize different directions in knowledge studies into a unified theory of knowledge and knowledge processes.

The past few years have seen the attention and rapid developments in event-triggered sampled-data systems, in which the effect of event-triggered sensor measurements and controller updates is explored in controller analysis and design.

This book focuses on the fault diagnosis observer design for the switched system.

The book examines the trends of premium collection and investment portfolio of LICI and selected private life insurers in India in order to compare their performances.

The book gives up-to-date, multi-aspect exposition of the philosophy and methodology of information, and related areas within the nascent field of the study of information.

This book provides basics and selected advanced insights on how to generate reliability, safety and resilience within (socio) technical system developments.

This volume is the result of the author's many-years of research in this field.

This book covers sustainable development in smart society's 5.

This book is in honor of Yasuhiko Takahara, a first-class researcher who has been active for some 50 years at the global level in systems research.

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 presents the state-of-the-art work in terms of searchable storage in cloud computing.

Algebraic & geometry methods have constituted a basic background and tool for people working on classic block coding theory and cryptography.

This book provides an in-depth understanding of big data challenges to digital forensic investigations, also known as big digital forensic data.

This book, the second volume of Crime Scene Management in Forensic Sciences, reviews the role and impact of forensic evidence in criminal investigations.

"e;I have had the misfortune of being raped twice-once in the park and again in the media,"e; wrote "e;Jane Doe,"e; the victim of an infamous stranger rape in Brooklyn, New York.

For the early pioneers of the social indicator movement, the possibilities of doing social good by developing the tools of social measurement seemed endless.

This book gives a general introduction to theoretically understand thermodynamic properties and response to applied fields of mesoscopic systems that closely relate to experiments.

The book provides fault detection and diagnosis approaches from the perspective of filtering analysis.

This book focuses on the applications of Equivalent-Small-Parameter Method (ESPM) in solving the steady-state periodic solutions, as well as stability analysis, of kinds of open-loop or closed-loop operated DC/DC converters, such as PWM, quasi-resonant and resonant ones.

This book introduces iterative learning control (ILC) and its applications to the new equations such as fractional order equations, impulsive equations, delay equations, and multi-agent systems, which have not been presented in other books on conventional fields.

The book is based on the research concerning China's National Balance Sheet (NBS) which is conducted by NIFD, the unique research groups in China focusing on NBS.

This book stems from lectures that were delivered at the three-week Advanced Instructional School on Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems held at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, from 4-23 December 2017, with the support of the National Centre for Mathematics, National Board for Higher Mathematics, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India.

At the dawn of the information age, a proper understanding of information and how it relates to matter and energy is of utmost importance for the survival of civilisation.