System Theory category: 437 books
Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems
An Anisotropy-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Control of Discrete-Time Descriptor Systems takes an anisotropy-based approach to the explanation of random input disturbance with an information-theoretic representation. It describes the random input signal more precisely, and the anisotropic norm minimization included in the book enables readers...
Mind, Body, World
Foundations of Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field’s immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition...
Robust Manufacturing Control
Proceedings of the CIRP Sponsored Conference RoMaC 2012, Bremen, Germany, 18th-20th June 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
This contributed volume collects research papers, presented at the CIRP Sponsored Conference Robust Manufacturing Control: Innovative and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Global Networks (RoMaC 2012, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany, June 18th-20th 2012). These research papers present the latest...
Modeling and Verification of Real-time Systems
Formalisms and Software Tools
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This title is devoted to presenting some of the most important concepts and techniques for describing real-time systems and analyzing their behavior in order to enable the designer to achieve guarantees of temporal correctness.
Topics addressed include mathematical models of real-time systems...
by Carolyn Drugge
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
In Capacity, systems thinker Carolyn Drugge offers a new and hopeful approach to addressing climate change. Many have argued that new technologies and greater efficiencies will not adequately solve the problem of climate change but few offer actual ways forward. Capacity provides a framework for...
The Benefits of Behavioral Research to the Fire Service
Human Behavior in Fires and Emergencies
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
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 as the location of the nearest exit and the...
by Andrew Zammit-Mangion, Michael Dewar, Visakan Kadirkamanathan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This authored monograph presents the use of dynamic spatiotemporal modeling tools for the identification of complex underlying processes in conflict, such as diffusion, relocation, heterogeneous escalation, and volatility. The authors use ideas from statistics, signal processing, and ecology, and...
Networks of Echoes
Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Networks of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders is a mathematically rigorous and data rich book on a fascinating area of the science and engineering of social webs. There are hundreds of complex network phenomena whose statistical properties are described by inverse power laws. The...
by Denise Pumain, Romain Reuillon
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics. Over historical times, cities have progressively absorbed a larger part of human population and will concentrate three quarters of humankind before the end of the century. This “urban transition”...
Social Phenomena
From Data Analysis to Models
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This book focuses on the new possibilities and approaches to social modeling currently being made possible by an unprecedented variety of datasets generated by our interactions with modern technologies. This area has witnessed a veritable explosion of activity over the last few years, yielding many...
Consensus Problem of Delayed Linear Multi-agent Systems
Analysis and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
In the context of coupled-coordination control mechanisms, this book focuses on the delay robustness of consensus problems with asynchronously coupled and synchronously coupled consensus algorithms respectively. Moreover, constructive consensus algorithms that tolerate larger communication delays...
La science d'avant-garde
l'homme face à l'univers dans tous ses états
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2015
La science d'avant-garde à travers des interviews passionnantes
journalistes, docteurs et physiciens théoriciens
L'homme, de son ADN à son mental, de l’approche écologique des systèmes vivants à la théorie Matrix de Icke en passant par l’expérience quantique.
Quoi...
New Perspectives on Cybernetics
Self-Organization, Autonomy and Connectionism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Gertrudis Van de Vijver· Seminar of Logic and Epistemology University of Ghent Before being classified under the fashionable denominators of complexity and chaos, self-organization and autonomy were intensely inquired into in the cybernetic tradition. Despite all rejections that cybernetics has gone...
by Saber Jafarpour, Andrew D. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This short book provides a comprehensive and unified treatment of time-varying vector fields under a variety of regularity hypotheses, namely finitely differentiable, Lipschitz, smooth, holomorphic, and real analytic. The presentation of this material in the real analytic setting is new, as is the...