Cybernetics and systems theory Books

How to Guard Against Spyware and Adware The Complete Guide To Adware And Spyware Removal And Protection On Your Computer What is meant by spyware? Adware: what is it? Since everyone who uses the internet is either inundated with material about items that...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Engineering - Robotics, grade: 1,0, University of Stuttgart (Institut für Systemdynamik), language: English, abstract: Inspired by the natural flocking behavior of animals, scientists try to achieve...

The biennial CONTROLO conferences are the main events promoted by The CONTROLO 2016 - 12th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control, Guimarães, Portugal, September 14th to 16th, was organized by Algoritmi, School of Engineering, University of Minho, in...

The Global Economy that sustains the civilized world is destroying the biosphere. As a result, civilization, like the Titanic, is on a collision course with disaster. But changing course via the body politic appears to be well nigh impossible, given...

Organizational life has inevitably felt the knock-on effect of the economic downturn and the unease that has accompanied it. High unemployment, redundancy and fear for the future are commonplace. Studies repeatedly show that 'trust' in the workplace is...

Modern critical infrastructures comprise of many interconnected cyber and physical assets, and as such are large scale cyber-physical systems. Hence, the conventional approach of securing these infrastructures by addressing cyber security and physical...

There are only two elements that make the Universal Cycle Theory radical - cycles and infinity. Other than that, much of what you read in the book will seem familiar and conventional. The book focuses on these key elements in the following ways. Cycles...

Proactive cyber security is the first step to protecting data and digital information from cybercriminals. It involves cyber security prevention measures such as establishing firewalls, setting up antivirus software, implementing two-factor...

AI Malicious Actors: The Dark Side of Artificial IntelligenceAre you concerned about the potential misuse of AI? Conversational Chat Informative BookBy Abebe-Bard AI Woldemariam This book, AI Malicious Actors: The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence,...

This book presents several aspects of research on mathematics that have significant applications in engineering, modelling and social matters, discussing a number of current and future social issues and problems in which mathematical tools can be...

Are your family, your business, and your data safe from cyber threats?Our world has dramatically changed, and we rely on technology for everything we do, but according to recent studies, there is a new victim of identity theft every two seconds. Identity...

This book provides a comprehensive look into China's emerging cyberspace strategy.

Lizzie Sayler, a young doctor specializing in the emerging field of brain mapping, is approached by the government with an urgent request to help salvage a quantum computer project when its two inventors become neurologically impaired.Utilizing a new...

Intelligent control is a rapidly developing, complex and challenging field with great practical importance and potential. Because of the rapidly developing and interdisciplinary nature of the subject, there are only a few...

The Complex Buddhist - Doing Good in a Challenging World bridges and interweaves complexity, social innovation and Buddhist practice and thinking. It is within the co-mingled fluid states of each that real innovation lurks and the emergent possible is...

This book presents a systematic theoretical approach and control framework on the time-varying formation tracking for high-order heterogeneous swarm systems.

This book introduces the theories and methods of Nature-Inspired Robotics in artificial intelligence. Software and hardware technologies, alongside theories and methods, illustrate the application of bio-inspired artificial intelligence.

Homeokinetics is the study of complex systems--systems such as universes, galaxies, or planetary subsystems, or even social systems. A complex system is one where there is a tremendous amount of internal exchange by the actors. The physics of complex...

Present book covers new paradigms in Blockchain, Big Data and Machine Learning concepts including applications and case studies.  It explains dead fusion in realizing the privacy and security of blockchain based data analytic environment. Recent...

George Adamski's lost debut puts his teaching on par with 21st-century science(Revised, July 2019)The Sea of Consciousness is a singularly historical document that includes:- George Adamski’s lost debut from 1932, The Invisible Ocean- two...

Control of Linear Parameter Varying Systems compiles state-of-the-art contributions on novel analytical and computational methods for addressing system identification, model reduction, performance analysis and feedback control design and addresses...

1 Introduction.- 2 Passivity As a Design Tool for Cooperative Control.- 3 Adaptive Design for Reference Velocity Recovery: Internal Model Approach.- 4 Adaptive Design for Reference Velocity Recovery: Parameterization Approach.- 5 Attitude...

The aim of Stability of Finite and Infinite Dimensional Systems is to provide new tools for specialists in control system theory, stability theory of ordinary and partial differential equations, and differential-delay...

Informational Macrodynamics (IMD) presents the unified information systemic approach with common information language for modeling, analysis and optimization of a variety of interactive processes, such as physical, ...

This book describes a complete revolution in software engineering based on complexity science through the establishment of NSE - Nonlinear Software Engineering paradigm which complies with the essential principles of complexity...

""Beitr�����ge zur Geognosie Tirols"" ist ein Buch von Adolf Pichler aus dem Jahr 1859. Es handelt sich um eine geologische Studie �����ber das Gebiet Tirols in �����sterreich. Pichler beschreibt darin die geologischen Formationen und Strukturen der...

This volume is the second of the three volume publication containing the proceedings of the 1989 International Symposium on the Mathemat­ ical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS-89), which was held in Amsterdam, The ...

Game theory is a rich and active area of research of which this new volume of the Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games is yet fresh evidence. Since the second half of the 20th century, the area of dynamic games...

The area of adaptive systems, which encompasses recursive identification, adaptive control, filtering, and signal processing, has been one of the most active areas of the past decade. Since adaptive controllers are ...

This book may be regarded as consisting of two parts. In Chapters I-IV we pre­ sent what we regard as essential topics in an introduction to deterministic optimal control theory. This material has been used by the authors for...

Shortly after the end of World War II high-speed digital computing machines were being developed. It was clear that the mathematical aspects of com­ putation needed to be reexamined in order to make efficient use of high-speed...

Have you ever tried to explain what quality is? Let's say you know perfectly well how to develop a quality product, but your arguments are undermined all the time by fragmented details. Time and again you have to step back to sort out the details, in...

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Philosophie - Theoretische (Erkenntnis, Wissenschaft, Logik, Sprache), Note: 1,7, AKAD University, ehem. AKAD Fachhochschule Stuttgart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In diesem Assignment geht es um...

With this brief, the authors present algorithms for model-free stabilization of unstable dynamic systems. An extremum-seeking algorithm assigns the role of a cost function to the dynamic system's control Lyapunov function (clf) aiming at its minimization...

This book introduces a number of recent advances regarding periodic feedback stabilization for linear and time periodic evolution equations. First, it presents selected connections between linear quadratic optimal control theory and feedback...

Inverse problems are concerned with determining causes for observed or desired effects. Problems of this type appear in many application fields both in science and in engineering. The mathematical modelling of inverse problems...

Many of the most challenging problems in the applied sciences involve non-differentiable structures as well as partial differential operators, thus leading to non-smooth distributed parameter systems.  This edited volume aims to establish a...

Bayesian Inference of State Space Models: Kalman Filtering and Beyond offers a comprehensive introduction to Bayesian estimation and forecasting for state space models. The celebrated Kalman filter, with its numerous extensions, takes centre stage in the...

This book shows how open source intelligence can be a powerful tool for combating crime by linking local and global patterns to help understand how criminal activities are connected. Readers will encounter the latest advances in cutting-edge data mining,...

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview on the dynamics and coevolution in multi-level strategic interaction games. As such it summarizes the results of the European CONGAS project, which developed new mathematical models and tools for the...

This advanced textbook introduces the main concepts and advances in systems and control theory, and highlights the importance of geometric ideas in the context of possible extensions to the more recent developments in nonlinear systems theory. Although...

This innovative monograph explores a new mathematical formalism in higher-order temporal logic for proving properties about the behavior of systems. Developed by the authors, the goal of this novel approach is to explain what occurs when multiple,...

1. Positive matrices and graphs.- 1.1 Generalised permutation matrix, nonnegative matrix, positive and strictly positive matrices.- 1.2 Reducible and irreducible matrices.- 1.3 The Collatz - Wielandt function.- 1.4 Maximum eigenvalue of a nonnegative...

""Bericht �����ber Die Leistungen Im Gebiete Der Pal�����ontologie: Mit Besonderer Ber�����cksichtigung Der Geognosie W�����hrend Der Jahre 1848 Und 1849"" ist ein Buch von Christoph Gottfried Giebel, das im Jahr 1851 ver������ffentlicht wurde. In diesem...

Approximation Methods in Engineering and Science covers fundamental and advanced topics in three areas: Dimensional Analysis, Continued Fractions, and Stability Analysis of the Mathieu Differential Equation. Throughout the book, a strong emphasis is...