System Theory category: 437 books
Solid Freeform Fabrication: A New Direction in Manufacturing
with Research and Applications in Thermal Laser Processing
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Solid Freeform Fabrication is a set of manufacturing processes that are capable of producing complex freeform solid objects directly from a computer model of an object without part-specific tooling or knowledge. In essence, these methods are miniature manufacturing plants which come complete with...
Dynamic Optimization
Deterministic and Stochastic Models
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
This book explores discrete-time dynamic optimization and provides a detailed introduction to both deterministic and stochastic models. Covering problems with finite and infinite horizon, as well as Markov renewal programs, Bayesian control models and partially observable processes, the book focuses...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This volume provides an introduction to and overview of the emerging field of interconnected networks which include multilayer or multiplex networks, as well as networks of networks. Such networks present structural and dynamical features quite different from those observed in isolated networks....
Complex Networks IX
Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Complex Networks CompleNet 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working across domains and research disciplines to measure, model, and visualize complex networks. It collects the works presented at the 9th International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet) in Boston, MA, March, 2018. With roots...
Intelligent Control
A Hybrid Approach Based on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Intelligent Control considers non-traditional modelling and control approaches to nonlinear systems. Fuzzy logic, neural networks and evolutionary computing techniques are the main tools used. The book presents a modular switching fuzzy logic controller where a PD-type fuzzy controller is executed...
Cyberemotions
Collective Emotions in Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This first monograph of its kind introduces the reader to fundamental definitions, key concepts and case studies addressing the following issues of rapidly growing relevance for online communities: What are emotions? How do they emerge, how are they transmitted? How can one measure emotional states?...
Conflict and Multimodal Communication
Social Research and Machine Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This book explores the use of technology to detect, predict and understand social cues, in order to analyze and prevent conflict. Traditional human sciences approaches are enriched with the latest developments in Social Signal Processing aimed at an automatic understanding of conflict and negotiation....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
This collection of contributed chapters demonstrates a wide range of applications within two overlapping research domains: social media analysis and social network analysis. Various methodologies were utilized in the twelve individual chapters including static, dynamic and real-time approaches to...
Why We Live in Hierarchies?
A Quantitative Treatise
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
This book systematically interprets and documents new, unifying principles and basic laws describing the most relevant aspects of hierarchy. To do so, it discusses recent experiments and models that are simple and realistic enough to reproduce the observations, and develops concepts for a better understanding...
by Giovanna Miritello
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The main interest of this research has been in understanding and characterizing large networks of human interactions as continuously changing objects. In fact, although many real social networks are dynamic networks whose elements and properties continuously change over time, traditional approaches...
Network-Oriented Modeling
Addressing Complexity of Cognitive, Affective and Social Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book presents a new approach that can be applied to complex, integrated individual and social human processes. It provides an alternative means of addressing complexity, better suited for its purpose than and effectively complementing traditional strategies involving isolation and separation...
Complex Networks VIII
Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Complex Networks CompleNet 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book collects the works presented at the 8th International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet) 2017 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on March 21-24, 2017. CompleNet aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners working in areas related to complex networks. The past two decades has witnessed...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
There is a growing body of literature that focuses on the similarities and differences between how people behave in the offline world vs. how they behave in these virtual environments. Data mining has aided in discovering interesting insights with respect to how people behave in these virtual environments....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This book explores the view that normative behaviour is part of a complex of social mechanisms, processes and narratives that are constantly shifting. From this perspective, norms are not a kind of self-contained social object or fact, but rather an interplay of many things that we label as norms...