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Revised and updated, this concise new edition of the pioneering book on multidimensional signal processing is ideal for a new generation of students. Multidimensional systems or m-D systems are the necessary mathematical background for modern digital...

This book springs from a multidisciplinary, multi-organizational, and multi-sector conversation about the privacy and ethical implications of research in human affairs using big data. The need to cultivate and enlist the public's trust in the abilities...

This book is an introduction to maximum-entropy models of random graphs with given topological properties and their applications. Its original contribution is the reformulation of many seemingly different problems in the study of both real networks and...

This brief examines mathematical models in nonsmooth mechanics and nonregular electrical circuits, including evolution variational inequalities, complementarity systems, differential inclusions, second-order dynamics, Lur'e systems and Moreau's sweeping...

This book provides a comprehensive overview on emergent bursty patterns in the dynamics of human behaviour. It presents common and alternative understanding of the investigated phenomena, and points out open questions worthy of further investigations.The...

We are living in a time in which innovation has become as frequent and unavoidable as never before. Innovative societies and economies, however, do not require narrow specializations of professions. What innovation is in urgent need of is cooperation...

Untitled DocumentChaos, Gaia, Eros: A Chaos Pioneer Uncovers the Three Great Streams of HistoryThe History of the World According to Chaos TheoryIn this eclectic and interdisciplinary work, chaos pioneer RalphAbraham traces the history of consciousness...

Common information measures the amount of matching variables in two or more information sources. It is ubiquitous in information theory and related areas such as theoretical computer science and discrete probability. However, because there are multiple...

E-discovery refers generally to the process by which one party (for example, the plaintiff) is entitled to discover evidence in the form of electronically stored information that is held by another party (for example, the defendant), and that is relevant...

Network Coding Applications looks at how ideas from network coding can have an impact on a number of new applications. Network coding is an elegant and novel technique introduced at the turn of the millennium to improve network throughput and ...

Scientific Sidelights Part 1 is a book written by James Champlin Fernald in 1902. The book is a collection of essays and articles that explore various scientific topics from a layman's perspective. Fernald, who was an American lexicographer and editor,...

Driven by the request for increased productivity, flexibility, and competitiveness, modern civilization increasingly has created high-performance discrete event dynamic systems (DEDSs). These systems exhibit concurrent,...

Numbers, Information and Complexity is a collection of about 50 articles in honour of Rudolf Ahlswede. His main areas of research are represented in the three sections, `Numbers and Combinations', `Information Theory...

What happens when a new social technology is imposed on the established social technology of the school? This book presents an unusual application of critical cultural analysis to a series of empirical case studies of educational uses of information and...

Are you stuck in a rut despite your best efforts to get out? Looking for long-term solutions to your problems? We have the best of intentions to improve our conditions, but often our solutions fall short of improving our lives. Sometimes our best...

Would you like to have better solutions to your problems? Struggling to understand why things went wrong when you did everything right? Learn to Think in Systems can help you with these problems. Systems surround us and we might...

The author has collected in one place one of the most extensive bibliographies on color in existence, which will facilitate additional inquiry into the field of color and color harmony. The book describes the process of constructing the bibliographies...

Network Coding Fundamentals reviews the basic techniques with emphasis on multicasting over error free links. It starts from the main theorem in network coding, and proceeds to discuss tools used in the context of network coding, network code design...

The second edition of Intersectionality & Higher Education: Theory, Research and Praxis further documents and expands upon Crenshaw's articulation of intersectionality within the context of higher education.

This book aims to provide insights into how 'second lives' in the sense of virtual identities and communities are constructed textually, semiotically and discursively, specifically in the online environment Second Life and Massively Multiplayer...

1. Facets and Challenges of the Information Technology Evolution; A. Heck. 2. The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Archive; P. Barrett. 3. Data from the X-Ray Observatory ROSAT; H.U. Zimmermann, et al. 4. The Einstein On-Line Service; D.E. Harris, C.S...

Preface. Part 1: General Issues. 1. Artificial Intelligence in Industrial Decision Making, Control and Automation: an Introduction; S.G. Tzafestas, H. Verbruggen. 2. Conceptual integration of Qualitative and Quantitative Process Models; E.A. Woods. 3...

Physicists, when modelling physical systems with a large number of degrees of freedom, and statisticians, when performing data analysis, have developed their own concepts and methods for making the `best' inference. But are...

is both a player and a spectator, is explained here illuminatingly. With regard to logical ambiguities and paradoxes, which may show up in all these topics, he, like Locker, is of the opinion that, philosophically speaking all...

The primary objective of the book is to provide advanced undergraduate or frrst-year graduate engineering students with a self-contained presentation of the principles fundamental to the analysis, design and implementation of...

analyzing the experimental data and constructing math.ematical models of the processes under study, one has to rely rather on the physical intuition than on the strict calculations. Now let us go one step higher and explain the...

In the mathematical treatment of many problems which arise in physics, economics, engineering, management, etc., the researcher frequently faces two major difficulties: infinite dimensionality and randomness of the evolution...

The primary aim for this book is to gather and collate articles which represent the best and latest thinking in the domain of technology transfer, from research, academia and practice around the world. We envisage that the...

Data is a valuable corporate asset and its effective management is vital to success. This professional guide covers all the key areas of data management, including database development and corporate data modelling. The new edition adds chapters on linked...

""The Crocodilian Remains Found In The Elgin Sandstones, With Remarks On The Ichnites Of Cummingston"" is a scientific publication written by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1877. The book focuses on the discovery of crocodilian fossils in the Elgin Sandstones, a...

Hunter Killers......take on cybernetic Terrorists in a cyberpunk future.The hunt is on in the island of Cyber Bang City.Gen-X, a former Soldier and her team, must find out who is targeting them for death.After an attack on her teammates, they lead...

Various general techniques have been developed for control and systems problems, many of which involve indirect methods. Because these indirect methods are not always effective, alternative approaches using direct methods are of particular interest and...

Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Preparations. 3. Actions, Performers (Theory). 4. Actions, Effects (Theory). 5. The Pulsar (Vision). 6. Plan and Diplan (Theory). 7. Igo (Vision). 8. Information (Theory). 9. Stores (Vision). 10. The Vision as a...

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Overview of Recent Evolution in Database Technology. 3. Theory of the Nested Relational Model. 4. Algres, an Extended Relational Database Programming Language. 5. Programming in Algres. 6. Alice, the Application Program...

In science, engineering and economics, decision problems are frequently modelled by optimizing the value of a (primary) objective function under stated feasibility constraints. In many cases of practical relevance, the...

List of Symbols. List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Control. 2. Behavior: Perception and Execution. 3. Learning to Make Distinctions. 4. The Law of Requisite Variety. 5. Behavior: Routines and Bounded Rationality. 6. Information Theory and...

The objective of this book is to bring together contributions by eminent researchers from industry and academia who specialize in the currently separate study and application of the key aspects of integration. The state of...

Objectives Computer and communication practice relies on data compression and dictionary search methods. They lean on a rapidly developing theory. Its exposition from a new viewpoint is the purpose of the book. We start from...

In decision theory there are basically two appr~hes to the modeling of individual choice: one is based on an absolute representation of preferences leading to a ntDnerical expression of preference intensity. This is utility...

Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Recursive Structures and their Properties. 3. Pyramidal Image Models. 4. Image Coding and Progressive Transmission with Gradual Refinement. 5. Image Processing with Pyramidal--Recursive Structures. 6. Applications of...

Preface. About the Notations. 1. Introduction. 2. Some General Results in Stability Theory. 3. Stability Problems in Power Engineering. 4. Stability Problems in Chemical Engineering. 5. Stability Problems in Non-Engineering Fields. Appendices...

The field of Computational Economics is a fast growing area. Due to the limitations in analytical modeling, more and more researchers apply numerical methods as a means of problem solving. In tum these quantitative results can...

I: EMGP3 USER GUIDE.- II: INTEGRATION ALGORITHMS.- III: METEOROLOGICAL DATA FILES AND DATA PROCESSING.- IV: EMGP3 COMPONENT MODELS.- V: EXAMPLES OF EMGP3 SIMULATIONS.- Annex A: EMGP3 INPUT FILES: Preparation, Limitations, and Data Sequence.- Preparing an...

Global management, technology and outsourcing company Accenture has achieved incredible results through the transformation of its IT function. It has doubled its revenues in ten years, significantly decreased its IT spending, despite an increase in...

Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) was introduced into 5G networks to facilitate machine to machine communication for such applications as the Internet of Things. But designing URLLC systems, with disjointed treatment of the topic in the...