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Integrability, chaos and patterns are three of the most important concepts in nonlinear dynamics.

In the last few years, the protection of computerised medical records, and of other personal health information, has become the subject of both technical research and political dispute in a number of countries.

Geometric constraint programming increases flexibility in CAD design specifications and leads to new conceptual design paradigms.

Neural Networks presents concepts of neural-network models and techniques of parallel distributed processing in a three-step approach: - A brief overview of the neural structure of the brain and the history of neural-network modeling introduces to associative memory, preceptrons, feature-sensitive networks, learning strategies, and practical applications.

Problems involving synthesis of mathematical models of various physical systems, making use of these models in practice and verifying them qualitatively has - come an especially important area of research since more and more physical - periments are being replaced by computer simulations.

This is the first comprehensive monograph on a new thermodynamic theory that goes beyond the classical theory of irreversible processes.

Bondgraphs are a well-established technique for the modelling of complex engineering systems.

Just a few years ago, virtual reality was regarded as more a toy than a tool.

The book you hold in your hands is the outcome of the "e;ISCS 2013: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems"e; held at the historical capital of Bohemia as a continuation of our series of symposia in the science of complex systems.

Systems engineering is a mandatory approach in some industries, and is gaining wider acceptance for complex projects in general.

This introduction to cryptography employs a programming-oriented approach to study the most important cryptographic schemes in current use and the main cryptanalytic attacks against them.

Singular systems which are also referred to as descriptor systems, semi-state systems, differential- algebraic systems or generalized state-space systems have attracted much attention because of their extensive applications in the Leontief dynamic model, electrical and mechanical models, etc.

This original and timely monograph describes a unique self-contained excursion that reveals to the readers the roles of two basic cognitive abilities, i.

Switched delay systems appear in a wide field of applications including networked control systems, power systems, memristive systems.

A team of launched and coordinated Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), requires advanced technologies in sensing, communication, computing, and control to improve their intelligence and robustness towards autonomous operations.

Vehicles are complex systems (non-linear, multi-variable) where the abundance of embedded controllers should ensure better security.

This volume contains a contemporary, integrated description of the processes of language.

It is clear that computation is playing an increasingly prominent role in the development of mathematics, as well as in the natural and social sciences.

The book examines problems associated with green growth and sustainable development on the basis of recent contributions in economics, natural sciences and applied mathematics, especially optimal control theory.

Quantum phase transitions, driven by quantum fluctuations, exhibit intriguing features offering the possibility of potentially new applications, e.

The architecture of "e;The Worlds Biggest Machine^"e; is of course expressed in the many underlying communications standards; however it is far from explicit nor readily accessible.

It is with pleasure that I write the foreword to this excellent book.

Following the birth of the laser in 1960, the field of "e;nonlinear optics"e; rapidly emerged.

This monograph presents an introductory overview of smart structures, their concepts, their active involvement in the vibration control, their applications and the extensive research work done on it so far.

This book covers all topics in mechanics from elementary Newtonian mechanics, the principles of canonical mechanics and rigid body mechanics to relativistic mechanics and nonlinear dynamics.

Interference Cancellation Using Space-Time Processing and Precoding Design introduces original design methods to achieve interference cancellation, low-complexity decoding and full diversity for a series of multi-user systems.

There are many examples of cooperation in Nature: cells cooperate to form tissues, organs cooperate to form living organisms, and individuals cooperate to raise their offspring or to hunt.

A natural evolution of statistical signal processing, in connection with the progressive increase in computational power, has been exploiting higher-order information.

In the 1970s researchers noticed that radioactive particles produced by elements naturally present in packaging material could cause bits to flip in sensitive areas of electronic chips.

The spectacular success of the scientific enterprise over the last four hundred years has led to the promise of an all encompassing vision of the natural world.

This monograph is aiming at researchers of systems control, especially those interested in multiagent systems, distributed and decentralized control, and structured systems.

In this work we derive asymptotically stabilizing control laws for electrical power systems using two nonlinear control synthesis techniques.

This book covers all topics in mechanics from elementary Newtonian mechanics, the principles of canonical mechanics and rigid body mechanics to relativistic mechanics and nonlinear dynamics.

This textbook covers the theoretical backgrounds and practical aspects of image, video and audio feature expression, e.

Physics underlies all complexity, including our own existence: how is this possible?

This prizewinning PhD thesis presents a general discussion of the orbital motion close to solar system small bodies (SSSBs), which induce non-central asymmetric gravitational fields in their neighborhoods.

"e;Pseudochaotic Kicked Oscillators: Renormalization, Symbolic Dynamics, and Transport"e; presents recent developments in pseudochaos, which is concerned with complex branching behaviors of dynamical systems at the interface between orderly and chaotic motion.

The first part of this book covers the key concepts of cryptography on an undergraduate level, from encryption and digital signatures to cryptographic protocols.

Sensor networks have recently come into prominence because they hold the potential to revolutionize a wide spectrum of both civilian and military applications.

Perhaps the most distinct question in science throughout the ages has been the one of perceivable reality, treated both in physics and philosophy.

This textbook covers thetheoretical background of one- and multidimensional signal processing,statistical analysis and modelling, coding and information theory with regardto the principles and design of image, video and audio compression systems.

This fascinating book examines some of the characteristics of technological/engineering models that are likely to be unfamiliar to those who are interested primarily in the history and philosophy of science and mathematics, and which differentiate technological models from scientific and mathematical ones.

This book develops a mathematical framework for modeling and optimizing interference-coupled multiuser systems.

This is a comprehensive description of the cryptographic hash function BLAKE, one of the five final contenders in the NIST SHA3 competition, and of BLAKE2, an improved version popular among developers.

This thesis primarily focuses on how to carry out intelligent sensing and understand the high-dimensional and low-quality visual information.

With the aim of providing a deeper insight into possible mechanisms of biological self-organization, this thesis presents new approaches to describe the process of self-assembly and the impact of spatial organization on the function of membrane proteins, from a statistical physics point of view.

"e;Hyperbolic Chaos: A Physicist's View"e; presents recent progress on uniformly hyperbolic attractors in dynamical systems from a physical rather than mathematical perspective (e.

This book considers two popular topics: fault detection and isolation (FDI) and flight data estimation using flush air data sensing (FADS) systems.