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The LNCS two-volume set 13905 and LNCS 13906 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2023, held in Tokyo, Japan, during June 19-22, 2023.

We as humans are prone to a variety of wired-in cognitive mistakes in the way we interpret and react to risk-related information.

Public misperception of radiological risk consistently directs limited resources toward managing minimal or even phantom risks at great cost to government and industry with no measurable benefit to overall public health.

ESORICS, the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, is the leading research-oriented conference on the theory and practice of computer security in Europe.

This book is a collection of extended versions of the papers presented at the Symposium on Next Generation Wireless Networks, May 26, 2000, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ.

This volume contains extended abstracts outlining selected talks and other selected presentations given by participants throughout the "e;Intensive Research Program on Advances in Nonsmooth Dynamics 2016"e;, held at the Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM) in Barcelona from February 1st to April 29th, 2016.

This volume defends a novel approach to the philosophy of physics: it is the first book devoted to a comparative study of probability, causality, and propensity, and their various interrelations, within the context of contemporary physics -- particularly quantum and statistical physics.

Presents an analysis and visualization of social networks integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek).

Do you want to understand how best to embrace the challenges, surprises, and successes of research?

In the past, the possibilities of structural optimization were restricted to an optimal choice of profiles and shape.

This book is based on the invited talks of the "e;RICAM-Workshop on Finite Fields and Their Applications: Character Sums and Polynomials"e; held at the Federal Institute for Adult Education (BIfEB) in Strobl, Austria, from September 2-7, 2012.

This book explores how neoliberalism and austerity have affected older people living within a deindustrialised town, utilising a Foucauldian approach and an ethnographic methodology.

Recent advances in digitization are transforming healthcare, education, tourism, information technology, and some other sectors.

This book deals with the simulation of the mechanical behavior of engineering structures, mechanisms and components.

This book showcases the different ways in which contemporary forms of data analysis are being used in urban planning and management.

This book offers a thorough introduction to the highly promising complex agent-based approach to economics, in which agent-based models (ABMs) are used to represent economic systems as complex and evolving systems composed of heterogeneous agents of limited rationality who interact with each other, generating the system's emergent properties in the process.

This book begins with a historical overview of the evolution of mobile technologies and addresses two key questions: why do we need 6G?

This volume expands conversations about participatory, community-engaged, and action-oriented research that inspires social change.

This book examines the nature of work and management, centring on documents as a class of management objects which have been relatively understudied in ethnomethodological research.

Without jargon or mathematical theory to hinder a quick understanding and use, here are the research tools and techniques you can grasp and immediately apply to obtain research services from others or do research yourself.

This book presents Networked Control System (NCS) as a particular kind of a real-time distributed system (RTDS), composed of a set of nodes, interconnected by a network, and able to develop a complete control process.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2017, held in Beijing, China, in December 2017.

This book aims at being a comprehensive and pedagogical introduction to the concept of self-stabilization, introduced by Edsger Wybe Dijkstra in 1973.

This book provides insight into domino effects in industrial chemical sites and process industries.

This book examines the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based metaheuristics algorithms with applications in information security for digital media.

This book combines two distinctive topics: data science/image analysis and materials science.

This book presents recent results and envisages new solutions of the stabilization problem for infinite-dimensional control systems.

This book provides an innovative approach to learning dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, emphasizing a consistent problem-solving framework designed to help students understand the subject while building and reinforcing the mathematical tools needed to bridge the gap between physical intuition and quantitative results.

This book provides a practical and intuitive view of how European banks manage asset-liability mismatch risk from both a practitioner and supervisory perspective.

This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope.

The importance of thermodynamics, particularly its Second Principle, to all branches of science in which systems with very large numbers of particles are involved cannot be overstated.

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed and revised selected papers from the 7th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, ISCO 2022, which was held online during May 18-20, 2022.

This volume applies the science of complexity to study coupled human-environment systems (CHES) and integrates ideas from the social sciences of climate change into a study of rural development amid flooding and urbanization in the Poyang Lake Region (PLR) of China.

"e;Discontinuous Dynamical Systems"e; presents a theory of dynamics and flow switchability in discontinuous dynamical systems, which can be as the mathematical foundation for a new dynamics of dynamical system networks.

This beginning graduate textbook teaches data science and machine learning methods for modeling, prediction, and control of complex systems.

For nearly 40 years researchers have been using narratives and stories to understand larger cultural issues through the lenses of their personal experiences.

The fourth edition of this bestselling text provides a comprehensive discussion of single case research methodology, with updated information throughout the book, including new content on design types, design selection, social validity, fidelity, generality, visual analysis, and writing.

Businesses who can make sense of the huge influx and complexity of data will be the big winners in the information economy.

This monograph gives a thorough treatment of the celebrated compositions of signature and encryption that allow for verifiability, that is, to efficiently prove properties about the encrypted data.

This book provides an inter-disciplinary introduction to the theory of random fields and its applications.

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought.

This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the fourth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Stochastic reachability analysis (SRA) is a method of analyzing the behavior of control systems which mix discrete and continuous dynamics.

"e;Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers"e; is a fantastic collection of essays by English science writer John W.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, ACISP 2018, held in Wollongong, Australia, in July 2018.

This textbook provides an exciting new addition to the area of network science featuring a stronger and more methodical link of models to their mathematical origin and explains how these relate to each other with special focus on epidemic spread on networks.

This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2023, held in Tanjin, China, in April 2023.