Research and information: general

These are the proceedings of CHES 2001, the third Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems.

A student guide to neuroscience research including how to select a topic, analyze data, and present research.

From Markov Jump Processes to Spatial Queues aims to develop a unified theory of spatial queues that yields concrete results for the performance analysis of mobile communication networks.

In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change.

We live in a world that is not quite "e;right.

This book demonstrates that mobility in Europe is not a synonym for European mobility, showing how certain mobile individuals are more likely to develop an explicitly European identity than others.

Information and Its Role in Nature presents an in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of information and its role in the control of natural processes.

Die Unified Modeling Language (UML) ist die Standardnotation für objektorientierte Modelle.

This book offers a practical presentation of stochastic partial differential equations arising in physical applications and their numerical approximation.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed pChania, Crete, Greece, in May 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2014, held in Hirosaki, Japan, in August 2014.

This research monograph summarizes solutions to reconfigurable fault-tolerant control problems for nonlinear dynamical systems that are based on the fault-hiding principle.

Despite occupational diseases in construction contributing to a significant proportion of fatalities, and permanent and temporary incapacities, they have not gained as much attention as occupational injuries from practitioners and researchers.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2014, held in Hong Kong, China, in October 2014.

"e;Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Using facet theory and Hackett's pioneering development of the declarative mapping sentence (DMS) as a qualitative methodology, this volume explains the process of formulating and applying the DMS to critically assess female representation in science fiction.

A bold reassessment of "e;smart cities"e; that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computersComputational models of urbanism-smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration-promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences.

Measuring the abundance of individuals and the diversity of species are core components of most ecological research projects and conservation monitoring.

This book walks you step-by-step through the whole research process so you can get up to speed understanding and doing your own research.

This book covers a variety of topics in the field of mechatronics engineering, with a special focus on innovative control and automation concepts for applications in a wide range of field, including industrial production, medicine and rehabilitation, education and transport.

Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits: Recent Developments is an interdisciplinary book blending mathematics, computational mathematics, scientific computing and software engineering with control and systems theory, signal processing, and circuit simulations.

The LNCS volume 13269 constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2022, which will take place in a hybrid mode in Rome, Italy in June 2022.

These two volumes cover the principal approaches to constructivism in mathematics.

Causal analytics methods can revolutionize the use of data to make effective decisions by revealing how different choices affect probabilities of various outcomes.

This book addresses the processes of stochastic structure formation in two-dimensional geophysical fluid dynamics based on statistical analysis of Gaussian random fields, as well as stochastic structure formation in dynamic systems with parametric excitation of positive random fields f(r,t) described by partial differential equations.

The Complex Variable Boundary Element Method or CVBEM is a generalization of the Cauchy integral formula into a boundary integral equation method or BIEM.

Recent years have witnessed a rapid development of active control of various mechanical systems.

How do academics survive the bureaucracy, the petty jealousies, the absurdities of operating in the university?

This book is based on a number of systems concepts, of which the following are emphasized here: oThe interacting systems of society and the environment are dynamic and evolution- ary oEvolution of these systems carries them through stages of differential stability and instability, continuity and discontinuity oAssociated with evolution and instability is structural change that is essentially irre- versible oThe present is a stage of world transformation that may not have been equaled for decades or even centuries oPolicies and decisions must match the times, in the present case the stage of world transformation The time 11:59:59 PM, approximately, on December 31, 2000 has an impor- tant symbolic meaning.

Parents, lawmakers, supervisors, and unions are among the many constituencies that demand influence, if not control, of the educational process.

The text covers the fundamentals of Python programming and the implementation of data structures using Python programming with the help of worked-out examples.

Ad hoc and sensor networks are making their way from research to real-world deployments.

The six-volume set LNCS 10404-10409 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2017, held in Trieste, Italy, in July 2017.

This book, based on international collaborative research, presents a state-of-the-art design for "e;Smart Master Planning"e; for all metropolises, megacities and metacities as well as at subcity zonal and community and neighborhood level.

This book for the first time examines periodic motions to chaos in time-delay systems, which exist extensively in engineering.

Psychological Statistics: The Basics walks the reader through the core logic of statistical inference and provides a solid grounding in the techniques necessary to understand modern statistical methods in the psychological and behavioral sciences.

The Constructivist Credo is a set of foundational principles for those wishing to conduct social science research within the constructivist paradigm.

This authored monograph covers a viability to approach to traffic management by advising to vehicles circulated on the network the velocity they should follow for satisfying global traffic conditions;.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th IFIP WG 11.

This concise, user-friendly book provides an accessible guide for anyone wishing to pursue an epidemiological study.

This book comprises the selected proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Hazards (NATHAZ'22), Angra do Heroismo, Terceira Island, Azores, 2022.

There is much specialist material written about different elements of managing risks of hazardous industries, such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and risk management.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Conference on Cybersecurity of Industrial Control Systems, CyberICS 2015, and the First Workshop on the Security of Cyber Physical Systems, WOS-CPS 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2015 in conjunction with ESORICS 2015, the 20th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security.

The book offers a comprehensive overview of controllability problems and minimum energy control for broad classes of dynamical systems, including linear, semilinear and nonlinear systems, which are important for modeling systems in automatic control, electrical engineering, mechanics and informatics.

The book presents a snapshot of the state-of-art in the field of turbulence modeling and covers the latest developments concerning direct numerical simulations, large eddy simulations, compressible turbulence, coherent structures, two-phase flow simulation and other related topics.

This book covers all the emerging trends in artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).

In this edited collection we commemorate the 60th birthday of Prof.