Cybernetics and systems theory Books

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

""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...

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...

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. 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...

The emergence of high-performance computers and sophisticated software tech­ nology has led to significant advances in the development and application of operations research. In turn, the growing complexity of operations...

This book is a revision and extension of my 1995 Sourcebook of Control Systems Engineering. Because of the extensions and other modifications, it has been retitled Handbook of Control Systems Engineering, which it is intended...

may be complex without being able to be replaced by something still more simple. This became evident with the help of computer models of deterministic-recursive systems in which simple mathematical equation systems provide an...

Previously, Fire Safety Engineers worked under a simple assumption that when a fire alarm activated, people will evacuation immediately. It was believed that how quickly people managed to evacuate a building depended mainly on physical abilities as well...

Plant Response As A Means Of Physiological Investigation is a book written by Jagadis Chunder Bose in 1905. The book is a comprehensive study of plant physiology and the responses of plants to various stimuli. Bose was a pioneer in the field of plant...

A virtual prototype is a major interim step towards the creation of a virtual environment. This book explores the simulation, interaction, concepts and tools of virtual prototypes and environments. It provides a mixture of...

In these ground-breaking essays, Heinz von Foerster discusses some of the fundamental principles that govern how we know the world and how we process the information from which we derive that knowledge. The author was one of...

This book summarizes a network of interrelated ideas which I have developed, off and on, over the past eight or ten years. The underlying theme is the psychological interplay of order and chaos. Or, to put it another way, the...

Cybersecurity hat sich weltweit zu einem neuen Konzept entwickelt. Es hat das Potenzial, den Weltfrieden zu stören und ihn noch besser zu erhalten. Ich war in den letzten Jahren ein begeisterter Science-Fiction-Leser. Eines Tages las ich einen Roman über...

Start an interesting journey through the digital world with "Online Relationships that Matter: Making Cyber Connections." This groundbreaking book by Vasile breaks down the complicated nature of relationships in the digital age, giving readers a way to...

Ökologien der Erde bestimmen die Gegenwart. Dabei gewinnt die in den 1970er Jahren von James Lovelock gemeinsam mit Lynn Margulis entwickelte Gaia-Theorie heute neue Erklärungskraft. Wenn Gaia bei Bruno Latour sogar zum allgemeinen Modell der...

Does science prove that the Bible is true?Contrary to popular belief, everything in the Word of God actually appears scientifically verifiable. On the mountain, God told Moses to make sure that the tabernacle was constructed according to the pattern He...

This book is an introduction to optimal stochastic control for continuous time Markov processes and the theory of viscosity solutions. It covers dynamic programming for deterministic optimal control problems, as well as to the...

1. Introduction. 2. Discrete-continuous systems with impulse control. 3. Optimal impulse control problem with restricted number of impulses. 4. Representation of generalized solutions via differential equations with measures. 5. Optimal control problems...

Metadecisions: Rehabilitating Epistemology constitutes an epistemological inquiry about the foundations of knowledge of a scientific discipline. This text warns contemporary scientific disciplines that neglecting...

CONVERSATIONAL CHAT INFORMATIVE BOOKThe revelation of AI, has the potential to revolutionize society in many positive ways. AI could be used to solve some of the world's most pressing problems, such as climate change, disease, and poverty. AI could also...

A beginner level comprehensive Book that includes step-by-step explanations of core security concepts along with follow-up quizzes and hands-on labs to ensure a solid learning for the Book taker.Designed by a CyberSecurity expert this Book has been...

This book discusses the challenges associated with the increased accessibility to 5G and broader usage with associated vulnerability in developing countries.

Enhance your logic, reason, judgment, and wisdom. Increase your ability to create concise and reasoned arguments using data and evidence, to get a genuine conclusion.The Systems Thinker – Analytical Skills aims to raise the...

As virtually every aspect of society becomes increasingly dependent on information and communications technology, so our vulnerability to attacks on this technology increases. This is a major theme of this collection of leading edge research papers. At...

This book engages the political, historical, national, and organizational elements of the hacker and maker movements in their contemporary contexts.

Intelligent Approach to Cyber Security provides details on the important cyber security threats and its mitigation and the influence of Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Blockchain technologies in the realm of cyber security.