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Sampled-data Control of Logical Networks
by Yang Liu Jianquan Lu Liangjie SunThis book mainly focuses on the sampled-data control of logical networks. We believe that the methods (semi-tensor product of matrices), results (recent results on Boolean control networks under periodic sampled-data control, Boolean control networks under aperiodic sampled-data control, and logical control networks under event-triggered control) and topics (logical networks) in this book have become of particular interest to readers recently. Firstly, logical networks are of interest due to their rich range of applications in biology, game theory, coding, finite automata, graph theory, and other fields. Secondly, semi-tensor product of matrices offers a useful tool for formulating, analyzing and designing controllers for logical networks. Moreover, this book is the first to introduce sampled-data control into the study of logical control networks. All research results in this book are novel and worthy of further study. The book’s content is divided into three parts (Boolean control networks under periodic sampled-data control, Boolean control networks under aperiodic sampled-data control, and logical control networks under event-triggered control), which essentially progress from easier to more difficult. In addition, corresponding examples and diagrams are included in each section to facilitate understanding.
Algebraic Geometry between Tradition and Future: An Italian Perspective (Springer INdAM Series #53)
by Gilberto BiniAn incredible season for algebraic geometry flourished in Italy between 1860, when Luigi Cremona was assigned the chair of Geometria Superiore in Bologna, and 1959, when Francesco Severi published the last volume of the treatise on algebraic systems over a surface and an algebraic variety. This century-long season has had a prominent influence on the evolution of complex algebraic geometry - both at the national and international levels - and still inspires modern research in the area. "Algebraic geometry in Italy between tradition and future" is a collection of contributions aiming at presenting some of these powerful ideas and their connection to contemporary and, if possible, future developments, such as Cremonian transformations, birational classification of high-dimensional varieties starting from Gino Fano, the life and works of Guido Castelnuovo, Francesco Severi's mathematical library, etc. The presentation is enriched by the viewpoint of various researchers of the history of mathematics, who describe the cultural milieu and tell about the bios of some of the most famous mathematicians of those times.
Proceedings of the 12th International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport: Mobility Innovations for Growing Megacities (Lecture Notes in Mobility)
by Constantinos Antoniou Fritz Busch Andreas Rau Mahesh HariharanThis book presents the proceedings of the 12th International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport (mobil.TUM 2022) held on 5–7 April 2022 in Singapore and organized by Technical University of Munich Asia. It presents articles in builds on the interdisciplinary approach in mobility and transportation systems for academia and industries. The topics represent the strong synergy between data analytics, new communication concepts, traffic management, modelling, and simulation to enable inspiration from the latest innovations and explore new directions where public transit is headed to meet the rising challenge of rapid urbanization. It caters to researchers and practitioners who have keen interest in the latest development of transportation systems which can sustain the rapid rise in urbanization.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Science and Technology: ICCST 2022, 27–28 August, Johor Bahru, Malaysia (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #983)
by Dae-Ki Kang Rayner Alfred Zamhar Iswandono Bin Awang Ismail Aslina Baharum Vinesh ThiruchelvamThis book gathers the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Science and Technology (ICCST 2022), held in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on August 27–28, 2022. The respective contributions offer practitioners and researchers a range of new computational techniques and solutions, identify emerging issues, and outline future research directions, while also showing them how to apply the latest large-scale, high-performance computational methods.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Numerical Modelling in Engineering: Volume 1: Numerical Modelling in Civil Engineering, NME 2022, 23-24 August, Ghent University, Belgium (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #311)
by Magd Abdel WahabThis book gathers outstanding papers on numerical modeling in Civil Engineering (Volume 1) as part of the 2-volume proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Numerical Modeling in Engineering (NME 2022), which was held in Ghent, Belgium, on 23-24 August 2022. The overall objective of the conference was to bring together international scientists and engineers in academia and industry from fields related to advanced numerical techniques, such as the finite element method (FEM), boundary element method (BEM), isogeometric analysis (IGA), etc., and their applications to a wide range of engineering disciplines. This volume covers numerical simulations with industrial civil engineering applications such as bridges and dams, cyclic loading, fluid dynamics, structural mechanics, geotechnical engineering, thermal analysis, reinforced concrete structures, steel structures, and composite structures. The book is intended for academics, including graduate students and researchers, as well as industrial practitioners working in the numerical modelling in civil engineering topics.
Mathematical Portfolio Theory and Analysis (Compact Textbooks in Mathematics)
by Siddhartha Pratim Chakrabarty Ankur KanaujiyaDesigned as a self-contained text, this book covers a wide spectrum of topics on portfolio theory. It covers both the classical-mean-variance portfolio theory as well as non-mean-variance portfolio theory. The book covers topics such as optimal portfolio strategies, bond portfolio optimization and risk management of portfolios. In order to ensure that the book is self-contained and not dependent on any pre-requisites, the book includes three chapters on basics of financial markets, probability theory and asset pricing models, which have resulted in a holistic narrative of the topic. Retaining the spirit of the classical works of stalwarts like Markowitz, Black, Sharpe, etc., this book includes various other aspects of portfolio theory, such as discrete and continuous time optimal portfolios, bond portfolios and risk management. The increase in volume and diversity of banking activities has resulted in a concurrent enhanced importance of portfolio theory, both in terms of management perspective (including risk management) and the resulting mathematical sophistication required. Most books on portfolio theory are written either from the management perspective, or are aimed at advanced graduate students and academicians. This book bridges the gap between these two levels of learning. With many useful solved examples and exercises with solutions as well as a rigorous mathematical approach of portfolio theory, the book is useful to undergraduate students of mathematical finance, business and financial management.
Educating Indigenous Children in Australian Juvenile Justice Systems: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Mathematics
by Bronwyn Ewing Grace SarraThis book addresses key issues in the context of the national policy of educating children accused of crimes in Juvenile Courts in Australia. For several decades, National and State Governments in Australia have struggled to define education, constantly seeking to improve the way society applies the concept. This book presents an accurate portrayal of consequences of the education policy of trying to educate troubled children and young people in trouble with the law. It describes the work of juvenile detention centre mathematics teachers and their teaching contexts. It portrays teachers as learners, who ventured with researchers with a theoretical perspective. This book focuses on culturally responsive pedagogies that seek to understand the ways Indigenous children and young people in juvenile detention make sense of their mathematical learning, which, until the time of detention, has been plagued by failure. It examines how the underperformance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds are strong determinants of their overrepresentation in the juvenile justice system in Australia. This book presents the argument that if the students’ literacy and numeracy levels can be improved, there is opportunity to build better futures away from involvement in the juvenile justice system and towards productive employment to improve life chances.
Intellectual Development and Mathematics Learning
by Chongde LinThis book introduces the outcomes of author’s 40 years of research, especially the theory of “the Triangular Pyramid Structure of Thinking” that he independently proposed, and the application of his development theory in the field of mathematics education. The book firstly explains the substantial character of intelligence, the development law of intelligence, and the relationship between intelligence development and creativity cultivation. Secondly, it discusses the structure of mathematical thinking of children and adolescents from 0 to 18 years old, and the methods of developing students’ thinking ability and the quality of intelligence through arithmetic learning. In the end, this book also demonstrates the characteristics of the development of mathematical thinking ability of children at age 0-6, elementary school students, and secondary school students, and the related latest research in this field. Based on the theory of “the Triangular Pyramid Structure of Thinking”, a number of examples are given to illustrate how the theory of intelligence development can be used in mathematics teaching to promote the development of students’ thinking abilities and to improve the quality of teaching.This book covers various areas including psychology, mathematics, and education. It has a great reference value for scholars in the field of psychology to study the theory of intelligence and the structure of thinking, providing guidance for parents and mathematics teachers to promote children’s quality of intelligence and mathematical thinking abilities, and to enhance their mathematics learning effects. In addition, it provides examples for psychological research to serve specific subject teaching in elementary and secondary schools.
Artificial Intelligence in Mechatronics and Civil Engineering: Bridging the Gap (Emerging Trends in Mechatronics)
by Ehsan Momeni Danial Jahed Armaghani Aydin AziziRecent studies highlight the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and simulation techniques in engineering. This book covers the successful implementation of different intelligent techniques in various areas of engineering focusing on common areas between mechatronics and civil engineering. The power of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in solving some examples of real-life problems in engineering is highlighted in this book. The implementation process to design the optimum intelligent models is discussed in this book.
Foundations of Mathematical Modelling for Engineering Problem Solving (Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven and Industrial Computing)
by Parikshit Narendra Mahalle Nancy Ambritta P. Sachin R. Sakhare Atul P. KulkarniThis book aims at improving the mathematical modelling skills of users by enhancing the ability to understand, connect, apply and use the mathematical concepts to the problem at hand. This book provides the readers with an in-depth knowledge of the various categories/classes of research problems that professionals, researchers and students might encounter following which the applications of appropriate mathematical models is explained with the help of case studies. The book is targeted at academicians, researchers, students and professionals who belong to all engineering disciplines.
Dynamic Network Representation Based on Latent Factorization of Tensors (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Hao Wu Xuke Wu Xin LuoA dynamic network is frequently encountered in various real industrial applications, such as the Internet of Things. It is composed of numerous nodes and large-scale dynamic real-time interactions among them, where each node indicates a specified entity, each directed link indicates a real-time interaction, and the strength of an interaction can be quantified as the weight of a link. As the involved nodes increase drastically, it becomes impossible to observe their full interactions at each time slot, making a resultant dynamic network High Dimensional and Incomplete (HDI). An HDI dynamic network with directed and weighted links, despite its HDI nature, contains rich knowledge regarding involved nodes’ various behavior patterns. Therefore, it is essential to study how to build efficient and effective representation learning models for acquiring useful knowledge. In this book, we first model a dynamic network into an HDI tensor and present the basic latent factorization of tensors (LFT) model. Then, we propose four representative LFT-based network representation methods. The first method integrates the short-time bias, long-time bias and preprocessing bias to precisely represent the volatility of network data. The second method utilizes a proportion-al-integral-derivative controller to construct an adjusted instance error to achieve a higher convergence rate. The third method considers the non-negativity of fluctuating network data by constraining latent features to be non-negative and incorporating the extended linear bias. The fourth method adopts an alternating direction method of multipliers framework to build a learning model for implementing representation to dynamic networks with high preciseness and efficiency.
Proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference: IHIC 2022 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #990)
by Sarika Jain Sven Groppe Nandana MihindukulasooriyaThis book will constitute the proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference (IHIC 2022). This volume focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning approach with their automated intelligent cognitive knowledge as an assisting tool to the existing healthcare tools. The topics covered in this volume are data mining, patient electronic health records, healthcare portals, telemedicine, automatic identification and data collector systems, RFID and localization techniques, usability and ubiquity in e-Health, artificial intelligence for healthcare decision-making, etc. This volume will prove a valuable resource for those in academia and industry.
Marketing and Smart Technologies: Proceedings of ICMarkTech 2022, Volume 2 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies #337)
by José Luís Reis Marc K. Peter José Antonio Varela González Zorica BogdanovićThis book includes selected papers presented at the International Conference on Marketing and Technologies (ICMarkTech 2022), held at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, during December 1–3, 2022. It covers up-to-date cutting-edge research on artificial intelligence applied in marketing, virtual and augmented reality in marketing, business intelligence databases and marketing, data mining and big data, marketing data science, web marketing, e-commerce and v-commerce, social media and networking, geomarketing and IoT, marketing automation and inbound marketing, machine learning applied to marketing, customer data management and CRM, and neuromarketing technologies.
Gender in STEM Education in the Arab Gulf Countries
by Martina Dickson Melissa McMinn Dean CairnsThis book explores the critical issues in gender and STEM education in the Arabian Gulf, written within a context of educational systems developing rapidly over recent decades. With the ever-growing need for a highly skilled, gender-inclusive STEM workforce, the issues raised in this book are more topical than ever. It presents chapters from various sectors such as children’s perceptions of science, scientists and their work, adolescent and university years by studying large-scale secondary data variations across countries in the region and finally presenting work relating to gender in STEM education. The book closes with a chapter on factors of success in female leaders’ STEM career journeys. It offers recommendations for both policy and practices in gender equity in the STEM workplace, based on their experiences. This book is written in a highly accessible yet academic manner. It is an essential resource for a wide-ranging audience interested in the complex relationships between gender and STEM.
Proceedings of Third International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems: ICACECS 2022 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #612)
by A. Brahmananda Reddy S. Nagini Valentina E. Balas K. Srujan RajuThis book includes original, peer-reviewed research articles from International Conference on Advances in Computer Engineering and Communication Systems (ICACECS 2022), held in VNR Vignana Jyoythi Institute of Engineering and Technology (VNR VJIET), Hyderabad, Telangana, India, during August 11–12, 2022. The book focuses on “Smart Innovations in Mezzanine Technologies, Data Analytics, Networks and Communication Systems” enlargements and reviews on the advanced topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining and big data computing, knowledge engineering, semantic Web, cloud computing, Internet of Things, cybersecurity, communication systems, and distributed computing and smart systems.
Population Aging and Age-Friendly Transport in China (Population, Regional Development and Transport)
by Pengjun Zhao Jinxin XieThis book is the first book that investigates aging and its impacts on transport system in China. Using various data, this book covers, but is not limited to, the development of population aging, the changes of travel demand, the features of travel behavior of China’s elderly, progress and prospect of age-friendly transport in China. The book has international academic novelty in three points. Firstly, it discovers the long-term supply-demand relationship between population aging and transport infrastructure development. Secondly, it finds the changes and factors in travel behavior of the elderly people. Thirdly, it discusses the advantages or disadvantages of age-friendly transport policy. The findings in the book provide fresh evidences for the challenges posed by aging to transport and enhance readers’ existing knowledge of the elderly people’s travel behavior and the related determinants. These findings are helpful for planners and politicians to make age-friendly transport policies and useful for investors and enterprises to supply proper transport services to the elderly people. This book is of great interest to scholars and practitioners interested in transport development, transport policy, social transition, sustainable mobility, urban planning, urban governance and is relevant to China and other developing countries.
Numerical Analysis of Ordinary and Delay Differential Equations (UNITEXT #145)
by Taketomo Mitsui Guang-Da HuThis book serves as a concise textbook for students in an advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate course in various disciplines such as applied mathematics, control, and engineering, who want to understand the modern standard of numerical methods of ordinary and delay differential equations. Experts in the same fields can also learn about the recent developments in numerical analysis of such differential systems. Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) provide a strong mathematical tool to express a wide variety of phenomena in science and engineering. Along with its own significance, one of the powerful directions toward which ODEs extend is to incorporate an unknown function with delayed argument. This is called delay differential equations (DDEs), which often appear in mathematical modelling of biology, demography, epidemiology, and control theory. In some cases, the solution of a differential equation can be obtained by algebraic combinations of known mathematical functions. In many practical cases, however, such a solution is quite difficult or unavailable, and numerical approximations are called for. Modern development of computers accelerates the situation and, moreover, launches more possibilities of numerical means. Henceforth, the knowledge and expertise of the numerical solution of differential equations becomes a requirement in broad areas of science and engineering.One might think that a well-organized software package such as MATLAB serves much the same solution. In a sense, this is true; but it must be kept in mind that blind employment of software packages misleads the user. The gist of numerical solution of differential equations still must be learned. The present book is intended to provide the essence of numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations as well as of delay differential equations. Particularly, the authors noted that there are still few concise textbooks of delay differential equations, and then they set about filling the gap through descriptions as transparent as possible. Major algorithms of numerical solution are clearly described in this book. The stability of solutions of ODEs and DDEs is crucial as well. The book introduces the asymptotic stability of analytical and numerical solutions and provides a practical way to analyze their stability by employing a theory of complex functions.
Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies: Intelligent Strategies for ICT (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #615)
by M. Shamim Kaiser Juanying Xie Vijay Singh RathoreThis book contains best selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2022: Seventh International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference will be held in Chandigarh, India, during December 9–10, 2022. The book covers state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to ICT and effective strategies for its implementation for engineering and managerial applications. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for computation, algorithms and data analytics and IT security. The work is presented in two volumes.
Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology and Applications: ICITA 2022 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #614)
by Sajid Anwar Abrar Ullah Álvaro Rocha Maria José SousaThis book includes high-quality papers presented at 16th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2022), held in Lisbon, Portugal during October 20–22, 2022. The book presents original research work of academics and industry professionals to exchange their knowledge of the state-of-the-art research and development in information technology and applications. The topics covered in the book are cloud computing, business process engineering, machine learning, evolutionary computing, big data analytics, Internet of things and cyber-physical systems, information and knowledge management, computer vision and image processing, computer graphics and games programming, mobile computing, ontology engineering, software and systems modeling, human–computer interaction, online learning / e-learning, computer networks, and web engineering.
Tourism Analytics Before and After COVID-19: Case Studies from Asia and Europe
by Yok Yen NguwiThis book is compilation of different analytics and machine learning techniques focusing on the tourism industry, particularly in measuring the impact of COVID-19 as well as forging a path ahead toward recovery. It includes case studies on COVID-19's effects on tourism in Europe, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore with the objective of looking at the issues through a data analytical lens and uncovering potential solutions. It adopts descriptive analytics, predictive analytics, machine learning predictive models, and some simulation models to provide holistic understanding.There are three ways in which readers will benefit from reading this work. Firstly, readers gain an insightful understanding of how tourism is impacted by different factors, its intermingled relationship with macro and business data, and how different analytics approaches can be used to visualize the issues, scenarios, and resolutions. Secondly, readers learn to pick up data analytics skills from the illustrated examples. Thirdly, readers learn the basics of Python programming to work with the different kinds of datasets that may be applicable to the tourism industry.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Based Information Processing and Applications: Volume 1 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #155)
by Bernard J. Jansen Qingyuan Zhou Jun YeThis book contains papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive based Information Processing and Applications (CIPA) in Changzhou, China, from September 22 to 23, 2022. The book is divided into a 2-volume series and the papers represent the various technological advancements in network information processing, graphics and image processing, medical care, machine learning, smart cities. It caters to postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners specializing and working in the area of cognitive-inspired computing and information processing.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Based Information Processing and Applications: Volume 2 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #156)
by Bernard J. Jansen Qingyuan Zhou Jun YeThis book contains papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cognitive based Information Processing and Applications (CIPA) in Changzhou, China, from September 22 to 23, 2022. The book is divided into a 2-volume series and the papers represent the various technological advancements in network information processing, graphics and image processing, medical care, machine learning, smart cities. It caters to postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioners specializing and working in the area of cognitive-inspired computing and information processing.
Elliptic Extensions in Statistical and Stochastic Systems (SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics #47)
by Makoto KatoriHermite's theorem makes it known that there are three levels of mathematical frames in which a simple addition formula is valid. They are rational, q-analogue, and elliptic-analogue. Based on the addition formula and associated mathematical structures, productive studies have been carried out in the process of q-extension of the rational (classical) formulas in enumerative combinatorics, theory of special functions, representation theory, study of integrable systems, and so on. Originating from the paper by Date, Jimbo, Kuniba, Miwa, and Okado on the exactly solvable statistical mechanics models using the theta function identities (1987), the formulas obtained at the q-level are now extended to the elliptic level in many research fields in mathematics and theoretical physics. In the present monograph, the recent progress of the elliptic extensions in the study of statistical and stochastic models in equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and probability theory is shown. At the elliptic level, many special functions are used, including Jacobi's theta functions, Weierstrass elliptic functions, Jacobi's elliptic functions, and others. This monograph is not intended to be a handbook of mathematical formulas of these elliptic functions, however. Thus, use is made only of the theta function of a complex-valued argument and a real-valued nome, which is a simplified version of the four kinds of Jacobi's theta functions. Then, the seven systems of orthogonal theta functions, written using a polynomial of the argument multiplied by a single theta function, or pairs of such functions, can be defined. They were introduced by Rosengren and Schlosser (2006), in association with the seven irreducible reduced affine root systems. Using Rosengren and Schlosser's theta functions, non-colliding Brownian bridges on a one-dimensional torus and an interval are discussed, along with determinantal point processes on a two-dimensional torus. Their scaling limits are argued, and the infinite particle systems are derived. Such limit transitions will be regarded as the mathematical realizations of the thermodynamic or hydrodynamic limits that are central subjects of statistical mechanics.
Advances in Reliability, Failure and Risk Analysis (Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
by Harish GargThis book collects select chapters on modern industrial problems related to uncertainties and vagueness in the expert domain of knowledge. The book further provides the knowledge related to application of various mathematical and statistical tools in these areas. The results presented in the book help the researchers and scientists in handling complicated projects in their domains. Useful to industrialists, academicians, researchers and students alike, the book aims to help managers and technical specialists in designing and implementation of reliability and risk programs as below: Ensure the system safety and risk informed asset management Follow a proper strategy to maintain the mechanical components of the system Schedule the proper actions throughout the product life cycle Understand the structure and cost of a complex system Plan the proper schedule to improve the reliability and life of the system Identify unwanted failures and set up preventive and correction action
Advancements of Grey Systems Theory in Economics and Social Sciences (Series on Grey System)
by Camelia Delcea Liviu-Adrian CotfasThis book focuses on the main advancements made in the economics and social sciences field through the use of grey systems theory. As a result, it addresses both the state of the art and the applications of grey systems theory in economics and social sciences. The book is structured in eight main chapters, covering the following topics: the state of the art in the grey systems theory research in economics and social sciences, which includes a bibliometric analysis, a selection of the most well-cited papers in the field, and a selection of applications in which the grey systems theory is used in the areas of suppliers selection, risk assessment, public opinion assessment, linear programming, complex projects management, social media analysis, and natural language processing Each chapter gives an overview of a particular economic or social sciences topic, providing an explanation on the main terms and methods used for solving the problem, including the notations, terminology, and the needed steps to solve it. A practical application is presented in most of the chapters, while in the others, a series of case studies are presented from the literature and discussed in depth in terms of methods used and advantages brought by each of these methods. The last chapter discusses the hybridization cases in which the grey systems theory has been or can be successfully used along with other artificial intelligence methods and techniques for a more advanced analysis in the economics and social sciences field. The reasoning and the explanations used in the book are easy to understand for the interested persons who are not familiar to the field and want to learn more related on how the grey systems theory can be applied to economics and social sciences. As for the experts in this field, this book can be a good referral point for developing new areas of research by combining the advantages of the grey systems theory with other theories within the field.