Cybernetics and systems theory Books
Springer Nature Switzerland AG AC Electrical Circuit Analysis: Practice
Book SynopsisThis study guide is designed for students taking courses in electrical circuit analysis. The textbook includes examples, questions, and exercises that will help electrical engineering students to review and sharpen their knowledge of the subject and enhance their performance in the classroom. Offering detailed solutions, multiple methods for solving problems, and clear explanations of concepts, this hands-on guide will improve student’s problem-solving skills and basic understanding of the topics covered in electric circuit analysis courses. Exercises cover a wide selection of basic and advanced questions and problems Categorizes and orders the problems based on difficulty level, hence suitable for both knowledgeable and under-prepared students Provides detailed and instructor-recommended solutions and methods, along with clear explanations Can be used along with the core textbooks in AC circuit analysis and advanced electrical circuit analysis Table of ContentsDC Circuits.- Nodal and Mesh Analyses.- First-order Circuits.- Second-order Circuits.-Circuit Theorems.- AC Circuits.- Sinusoids and Phasors.- Sinusoidal Steady-state Analysis.- AC Power Analysis.- Magnetically Coupled Circuits.- Frequency Response.- Laplace Transform.- Applications of the Laplace Transform.- Two-port Networks.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Stochastic Dynamics in Computational Biology
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to provide a well-structured and coherent overview of existing mathematical modeling approaches for biochemical reaction systems, investigating relations between both the conventional models and several types of deterministic-stochastic hybrid model recombinations. Another main objective is to illustrate and compare diverse numerical simulation schemes and their computational effort. Unlike related works, this book presents a broad scope in its applications, from offering a detailed introduction to hybrid approaches for the case of multiple population scales to discussing the setting of time-scale separation resulting from widely varying firing rates of reaction channels. Additionally, it also addresses modeling approaches for non well-mixed reaction-diffusion dynamics, including deterministic and stochastic PDEs and spatiotemporal master equations. Finally, by translating and incorporating complex theory to a level accessible to non-mathematicians, this book effectively bridges the gap between mathematical research in computational biology and its practical use in biological, biochemical, and biomedical systems.Trade Review“The primary audience is graduate students and researchers. … content would have to be selected and formatted for lectures carefully. It is most suitable for independent study, and is especially useful as a reference text for the foundations of techniques used in current research. The choice of references are excellent and very current: it is a good survey of both the relevant foundations and current state of research … and would be a useful starting point for a literature review.” (Chay Paterson, zbMATH 1467.92005, 2021)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Well-mixed stochastic reaction kinetics.- Population scaling.- Temporal scaling.- Spatial scaling.- Summary and Outlook.- Mathematical background.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Mathematical Methods in Modern Complexity Science
Book SynopsisThis book presents recent developments in nonlinear and complex systems. It provides recent theoretic developments and new techniques based on a nonlinear dynamical systems approach that can be used to model and understand complex behavior in nonlinear dynamical systems. It covers information theory, relativistic chaotic dynamics, data analysis, relativistic chaotic dynamics, solvability issues in integro-differential equations, and inverse problems for parabolic differential equations, synchronization and chaotic transient. Presents new concepts for understanding and modeling complex systems Table of Contents1. Preface by Dr. Dimitri Volchenkov2. Chapter 1 . J. A. Tenreiro Machado, Shannon Information Analysis of the Chromosome Code.3. Chapter 2. Dimitri Volchenkov, Veniamin Smirnov, An Unfair Coin of the Standard & Poor’s 5004. Chapter 3. Relativistic chaotic scattering by Juan D. Bernal, Jesus M. Seoane, Miguel A.F. Sanjuan5. Chapter 4. Artificial Intelligence for Studying Perception of Ambiguous Images and Decision-Marking Processes in the Human Brain by Alexander N. Pisarchik, Anastasija E. Runnova, Nikita S. Frolov, and Alexander E. Hramov6. Chapter 5. Fuhong Min, Chuang Li, Multistability Coexistence of Memristive Chaotic System, and the Application in Image Decryption7. Chapter 6: Veniamin Smirnov, Zhuanzhuan Ma, And Dimitri Volchenkov, Extreme Events and Emergency Scales 8. Chapter 7: M. Edelman, Evolution of Systems with Power-Law Memory: Do We Have to Die?9. Chapter 8: Dimitri Volchenkov, Probability Entanglement and Destructive Interference in Biased Coin Tossing10. Chapter 9: Messoud Efendiev, Vitali Vougalter, On the solvability of some systems of integro-differential equations with drift.11. Chapter 10: Vitali Vougalter, Vitaly Volpert, Solvability in The Sense of Sequences For Some Non Fredholm Operators With The Bi-Laplacian 12. Chapter 11: Vitali Vougalter, The Preservation of Nonnegativity of Solutions of A Parabolic System With The Bi-Laplacian
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Control Systems: An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis textbook is designed for an introductory, one-semester course in Control Systems for undergraduates and graduates in various engineering departments, such as electrical, mechanical, aerospace, and civil. It is written to be concise, clear, and yet comprehensive to make it easier for the students to learn this important subject with high mathematical complexity. The author emphasizes the physical simulation of systems, making it easier for readers to understand system behavior. The popular MATLAB® software package is used for programming and simulation. Every new concept is explained with figures and examples for a clear understanding. The simple and clear style of presentation, along with comprehensive coverage, enables students to obtain a solid foundation in the subject and for use in practical applications.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. The Laplace Transform3. Mathematical Modeling of Electrical Systems4. Mathematical Modeling of Mechanical Systems5. Block Diagrams and Signal-Flow Graphs6. Steady State and Transient Responses7. Root Locus8. Design of Control Systems in Frequency Domain - Bode plot9. Nyquist Plot10. State-space Analysis of Control Systems11. Design of Control Systems in State space
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Springer Hybrid and Networked Dynamical Systems
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Springer Partial Moments in System Identification
Book SynopsisChapter 1. An introduction about moments in identification.- Chapter 2. An introductory example.- Chapter 3. Partial moments in continuous-time.- Chapter 4. Partial moments in discrete-time.- Chapter 5. Algebraic identification, a partial moment approach.- Chapter 6. Continuous-time subspace based method.- Chapter 7. Continuous-time linear parameter varying model.- Chapter 8. Multidimensional partial moments.- Chapter 9. Perspectives.- Referrences.
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Springer Modern Aspects of Dynamical Systems
Book Synopsis- Homogeneous Dynamics and its connection to Diophantine Approximation.- Effective unique ergodicity and weak mixing of translation flows.- Lecture notes on Birkhoff billiards: dynamics, integrability and spectral rigidity.- Introduction to Fatou components in holomorphic dynamics.
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Springer Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications ICNDA 2024 Volume 2
Book SynopsisDynamical Systems: Chaos, Complexity & Fractals.- Solving Population Balance Models via a Novel Semi-Analytical Method.- Fractal Structures in some Non-linear Partial Differential Equations.- Combination Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis B Using Capsid Recycling Inhibitor.- Non-equilibrium Cytokine Dynamics For Possible Therapeutic Intervention.- Modeling the Dynamic Effects of Parathyroid Hormone Therapy on Bone Remodeling.- Local and Global Stability Analysis of a Predator-Prey System with Harvesting and Fear Effects.- MODELING THE IMPACT OF BEHAVIORAL CHANGES ON DISEASE DYNAMICS IN PREY-PREDATOR ECO-EPIDEMIC SYSTEMS.- Analyzing Crude Oil Price Fluctuations: A Fractal Perspective.- Multifractal characterization of Weibull and Gamma probability distribution functions.- Numerical and Graphical Representations of Allelopathic Effects on Plant Populations: A Mathematical Model Using DDE.- Dynamical Analysis for the Prey-Predator Model in Beddington De-Angelis type Functional Response with Prey Refuge.- Basins of attraction in the photogravitational magnetic-binary problem with oblateness and dissipations.- Implicit numerical schemes based on the lower incomplete gamma function for solving a class of nonlinear fractional-ordinary differential equation problems arising from a stochastic process.- On a variable-order fractional parabolic problems.- Asymptotic Analysis of a Class of Singularly Perturbed Nonlinear Electromechanical Dynamic Models.- DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS OF A THREE-SPECIES DISEASED FOOD WEB MODEL WITH DIFFERENT FUNCTIONAL RESPONSES.- Nonlinear analysis of dielectric elastomer actuator.- STABILITY ANALYSIS OF DIFFUSIVE PREDATOR-PREY MODEL INVOLVING INTRA-SPECIFIC COEFFICIENTS WITH THE CONCEPT OF DIFFERENCE EQUATION.- Analytical Study of the Vibration Effects Due to Nonlinear Unbalanced Magnetic Pull in Electrical Machines under Static Eccentricity.- Cost and Durability Optimization of Metal- Sandwich Panels for Bullet Proof Armours via Explicit Dynamic Analysis.- Null controllability results for fractional dynamical systems.- Role of diffusivity of lactate on its accumulation in tumor necrotic core.- Fluid Dynamics & Nonlinear Flows.- On a Numerical Investigation of MHD Flow of a Hybrid Nanofluid with Rotation and Thermal Buoyancy Force.- Conditions for oscillation onset and flow stagnation in oscillating heat pipes.- Numerical exploration of tracer behavior in porous channels with couple stress and magnetic fields.- The time fractional Navier-Stokes-Damped equations with slip boundary conditions.- THERMAL ENERGY TRANSPORT IN CARBON NANOTUBES-WATER NANOFLUID FLOW ON AN INCLINED SURFACE: FRACTIONAL AND CLASSICAL PERSPECTIVE.- On the decay process of temperature field in a general type of turbulent flow.- Influence of homogeneous heterogeneous reaction on nanofluid flow over MHD non-Darcian with porous media in presence of linear thermal radiation.- Solute transport phenomena in a stratified fluid through a porous media with boundary reactions.- Mixing of a solute in a micropolar blood flow model through a capillary tube with an absorptive wall.- Casson Fluid Flow in a Duct with Iso-thermal Walls under the Local Thermal Non-Equilibrium Framework: Temperature Distribution.- Impacts of Hall and Ion Slip on a Casson Nanofluid of a MHD with Radiation Absorption.- Rotating Mixed Convective Casson Fluid Flow past Inclined Porous Plates with the Effects of Hall and Ion Slip, Radiation Absorption, and Diffusion Thermo.- A Numerical Analysis of MHD Micropolar Hybrid Nanofluid Flow over a Porous Stretching/Shrinking Sheet.- Deflection of a Smooth Cantilever Beam Caused by Fluid Pressure Gradient: A Numerical Investigation.- Flow-induced vibrations of a freely vibrating bidirectional square cylinder in the presence of a stationary square cylinder at a low Reynolds number.- Impact of Hall current on chemically reactive Darcy Forchheimer flow of hybrid nanofluid over moving slender needle.- On the Investigation of Interacting Fault Movement in a Viscoelastic Structure.- Non-linear velocity e?ects on the flow of Newtonian/non-Newtonian basefluids with magnetic/non-magnetic nanoparticles over a stretching sheet embedded in a porous medium.- Local Nonsimilarity Solution for Nonlinear Convection of Casson Fluid Flow with Nonuniform Heat Source/Sink.- A numerical analysis on heat and mass transport process in porous medium on MHD Williamson nanofluid through a permeable extending surface.- Numerical study of the Effects of Geometric Parameters on Ferrofluid Mixed Convection in a Porous Rectangular Vented Enclosure.- Thermo-Solutal Marangoni Convection in Maxwell Nanofluid Flow Through Darcy-Forchheimer Porous Medium.- The Investigation of Squeezing Flow Through a Porous Medium Between Parallel Plates Using the Homotopy Perturbation Method.- Turbulence features in a wall-wake flow downstream of two horizontal cylinders a numerical approach.- Hydrodynamic Dispersion of Volatile Contaminant in an Open Channel Flow Using a Fitted Operator Approach.
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Springer Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications ICNDA 2024 Volume 3
Book SynopsisGraphs, Networks & Communications.- New G-optimality criteria for multi-dimensional control problem with applications in artificial neural system.- Multiscale Permutation Entropy Analysis of EEG-Based Seizure Classification: A Machine Learning Approach.- Prediction of Refractive Index of Rice Blast Fungicides using Eccentric Degree Index A Graph Theoretic Approach.- On maximal $mu^*$-open set, minimal $mu^*$-closed set, mean $mu^*$-open set and its applications in discrete dynamical systems.- Performance Analysis of Discrete Wavelet Transforms for Acoustic Scene Classification with DCASE Dataset.- Investigation of channel doping effects on high-frequency noise for Trench Double gate JLFETs.- On Graphs Attaining Upper Bound of k-Rainbow Total Domination Number and its Application in Graph Dynamical System.- 2-path signed graph of signed Smith graphs and its applications in nonlinear dynamics.- Frequency Analysis of Orthotropic Square Plates with Circular Thickness Variations in Two Dimensions.- BlossomNet: A Deep Learning Framework for Accurate Flower Identification.- Performance Analysis of Accurate and Approximate Compressors at Nanometer Regime.- A Simple but Accurate Method of Estimation of Far Field Pattern of Single-mode Triangular Index Fiber.- Analyzing Electrocardiogram Signal Complexity with Weighted Entropy.- Physics Informed Neural Network for solution of Duffing oscillators.- Wavelet Scattering Operators for Multiscale Processes: the Case Study of Marine Mammal Vocalizations.- Outer Heliosphere and Interstellar Medium: investigation on the signal fluctuations collected by Voyager probes.- An adaptable single-server encouraged arrival, balking, and symmetric stochastic Markovian queuing system with threshold policy.- SNR Estimation for Hypercubic Signals in Rayleigh Channels.- Vehicle Detection With Number Plate Recognition.- Patient Health Monitoring System for Chronic Cardiac Attack using Machine Learning.- Time Domain analysis of vibration isolator using Newmark method along with Newton Raphson method.- Deep Learning for Path Tracking of Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Other Fields of Nonlinear Dynamics.- Generative models as out-of-equilibrium particle systems: training of Energy-Based Models using Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics.- Chemical Significance of Some Neighborhood Degree-based Molecular Descriptors.- Dynamics of pendulum forced by a magnetic excitation with position-dependent phase.- Analysis of surface texture and material removal rate during AISI 202 thermal-assisted turning using a carbide cutting tool.- High cycle fatigue behavior of TIG welded joint at optimum parametric condition.- Study of Cylindrical Magnetohydronymaic Shock Waves in Non-Ideal Gas: Similarity Solution Perspective.- QSPR Analysis of Anti-Asthma Drugs using some recent Neighbourhood Degree-based Topological Descriptors.- Does anything beat a GARCH(1,1)? Evidence from Crypto Markets.- Computational Analysis of Sn-Doped hBN for Detection of Lung Cancer-Related VOCs.- Exploring Business Management Practices of Milk Tea Houses in Selected Urban Towns of Nueva Vizcaya.- Drift and Annihilation of a Counter-rotating Spiral Pair in Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction Under a DC Electric Field.- Analyzing the Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and Ukraine-Russia war in WTI-Brent Spread: A MFXDFA Approach.- Experimental and Parametric study of friction stir welding in similar and dissimilar metals.- A General Form of FO PI-PD Controllers for Some Stable Integer and Non-integer Order Plants with Transport Delay.- Abortion Detection and Monitoring for Empowering Equality through the Integration of Biometric and Artificial Intelligence.- Effect of vacancy defect on the free vibration of some noncarbon nanomaterials: A molecular static study.- UV-visible, FTIR and Electrochemical Properties of rGO and ZnO/rGO Nanocomposite Produced via Green Synthesis Process.- An Efficient Hybrid Sequence of Retargeting Operators to Minimize Structural Deformities in Image.- Image acquisition and electric field application in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction using LabVIEW.- Theoretical Investigation to Analyze the Effect of Core Size of InAs/GaAs Core Shell Nanostructure.- Estimating Soil Temperature at Various Depths in Bangladesh: A Comparative Analysis of Advanced Machine Learning Tree-Based Models.- Stability Analysis of Vaccinated and Non-Vaccinated Population of Covid'19 A Study by Mathematical Modeling.- Investigation of dielectric studies of (Nd1-xGdx)2FeCrO6 (x = 0.0 0.3) Double Perovskite.- Mapping the Spatial Dynamics of COVID-19 Clusters in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines.- Dissipative Force on an External Quark in AdS Gauss-Bonnet Gravity with String Cloud.- A Structural Model of Mathematics Performance as Influenced by Students' Engagement with Technology to Students' Motivation.- A gesture based turing test for mitigation of DDoS attacks in cloud.- Efficacy of a Markovian queueing system with differentiated dual vacation, encouraged arrival, balking and feedback.- Parameters optimization of a hydraulically interconnected suspension in a stretcher using Genetic Algorithm.- Stochastic Resonance with Entropy.- Optimizing Performance Measures in a Finite Markovian Heterogeneous Queueing Model with Encouraged Arrival.- Synchronized Dynamics of Earthquake Fault Motion.- Multidimensional Extensions of Basic (or $q$-) Analogs of Certain Erd'elyi Type Integrals.
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Springer Twisted Morse Complexes
Book Synopsis- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Morse Complex with Local Coefficients.- 3. The Homology Determined by the Isomorphism Class of G.- 4. Singular and CW-Homology with Local Coefficients.- 5. Twisted Morse Cohomology and Lichnerowicz Cohomology.- 6. Applications and Computations.
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Springer An Introduction to Theory and Applications of Stationary VariationalHemivariational Inequalities
Book SynopsisPreface.- Introduction.- Preliminaries.- Scalar Variational-hemivariational Inequalities.- Models in Contact Mechanics.- Variational-hemivariational Inequalities: Existence and Uniqueness.- Variational-hemivariational Inequalities: Stability.- Mixed Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities.- Applications in Fluid Mechanics.- References.- Index.
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Springer DataDriven Nonparametric Adaptive Control Theory
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Elements of Real and Functional Analysis.- Chapter 3. Elements of Native Space Theory.- Chapter 4. Elements of Dynamical Systems Theory.- Chapter 5. Native Space Embedding Control Methods.- Chapter 6. Data-Driven Methods and Adaptive Control: Deterministic Analysis.- Chapter 7. Data-Driven Methods and Adaptive Control: Stochastic Analysis.- Chapter 8. Conclusion.- Appendix.
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Springer The Science of Influencers and Superspreaders
Book SynopsisMathematical theories of influencers in complex networks.- Social media influencers and politics.- Influencers for marketing.- Influencers as superspreaders of disease.- Genetic influencers in gene regulatory networks.- Neural influencers in the brain.- Keystone species are influencers in ecosystems.- Networks and Artificial Intelligence in Finance.- Outlook.
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Springer Compendium of Urban Complexity
Book SynopsisCity Size Distributions.- Urban Scaling Laws.- The Bene?ts and Costs of Agglomeration: Insights from Economics and Complexity.- Urban Mobility.- The Long-run Impacts of Migration on the City Population Size Distribution.- The Gravity Model for Social Systems.- Segregation in Cities.- Monocentric or Polycentric City? An Empirical Perspective.- Urban Climate Through the Lens of Complex System Science.- Designing Complexity? The Role of Self-Organization in Urban Planning and Design.- Fractality of Cities.- Entropy and the City: Origins, Trajectories and Explorations of the Concept in Urban Science.- An Introduction to Mathematical Concepts of Power-laws in Cities and Urban Systems.
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Springer Robust Control of Jump Linear Stochastic Systems
Book Synopsis1. Preliminaries.- 2. Linear Differential Equations with Jumps Generating a Positive Evolution on an Ordered Banach Space.- 3. Stability of Systems of Stochastic Linear Differential Equations with Jumps.- 4. Structural Properties of Linear Stochastic Systems with Jumps.- 5. A Class of Generalized Matrix Riccati Differential Equations with Jumps.- 6. Linear Quadratic Optimal Control Problems for Linear Stochastic Systems with Jumps.- 7. H2 Optimal Control and H2 Optimal Filtering for Stochastic Linear Systems with Jumps.- 8. Robust Control with Respect to the Parametric Uncertainties of a Stochastic Linear System with Jumps.
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Springer Lyapunov Stability of Transformation Semigroups
Book SynopsisPreface.- Introduction.- Semigroup actions.- Attraction and Lyapunov stability.- Orbital maps.- Lyapunov stability on fiber bundles.- Fenichel’s uniformity lemma.- Stability and controllability.- Higher stability and generalized recurrence.- Fiber bundles.- References.- Index.
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Springer Connection Matrices in Combinatorial Topological Dynamics
Book SynopsisPreface.- Introduction.- Main Results.- Preliminaries.- Poset Filtered Chain Complexes.- Algebraic Connection Matrices.- Connection Matrices in Lefschetz Complexes.- Dynamics of Combinatorial Multivector Fields.- Connection Matrices for Forman's Gradient Vector Fields.- Future Work and Open Problems.- References.
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Springer Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas
Book SynopsisBelief Evolution in Society Over Time: Dynamics Based on Random and Homophily-Based Networks, and Applications.- Retention in Higher Education: An Agent-Based Model of Social Interactions and Motivated Agent Behavior.- Micro, Meso, Macro: Generic Structures of Social Complexity for Defense Systems Engineering & National Security Wargames.- Classifying Noisy Human Signals Using Topological Data Analysis.- MADmax: Multi-Agent Trust Dynamics and Influence Maximization.- Gardening Contagion: Using Agent-Based Modeling to Examine Growth and Persistence of Food-Secure Communities.- Recommending Defenses Against Cyber Threats: An Approach Inspired by Machine Translation.- On Representing Knightian Uncertainty in Agent-Based Models.- Engaging Communities in Developing Technologies to Support Community Flourishing: A Workshop Report.- Generational Taste Formation and Cultural Markets: A Develecological Approach to Cultural Change.- Analysis of FPDS-NG Data for Economic Influence.- Intelligent Agent Interactions for Southwest Border Interdictions.- Scaling Agent-Based Model Outputs Using Network Analysis.- Modeling the Evacuation from a Regional Disaster Using the Poisson distribution.- Graph Neural Differential Equations for Coarse-Grained Socioeconomic Dynamics.
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Springer Nonlinear Networked Systems and Control
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Fundamentals of Nonlinear Networked Systems.- Part I: Homogeneous Systems and Homogenization.- Consensus of Linear Homogeneous Systems.- Consensus of Nonlinear Homogeneous Systems.- Homogenization of Nonlinear Heterogeneous Systems.- Distributed Adaptive Homogenization.- Communication Delay.- Switching Networks.- Part II: Heterogeneous Systems.- A Reference Model Paradigm.- Reference Model Matching.- Feedforward Design.- Internal Model Principle I: State Communication.- Internal Model Principle II: Output Communication.- Sampled-Data Control.- Event-Triggered Control.- Part III Advanced Topics.- Autonomous Synchronization.- Frequency Modulated Systems.- Appendix.
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Springer Protocells and the Origin of Life
Book SynopsisSetting the stage.- An overview of our main conceptual tool.- A bird’s eye view on cells.- Origins.- Spontaneous organization.- Self-organization in chemical reactions.- Collective self-replication in chemical reactions.- Protocells and synchronization.- Polymers in protocells.- Conclusions.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Smart Technologies for an AllElectric Society
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Advances in Hydraulic and Pneumatic Drives and Control Centrifugal Pumps Valves and Seals 2025
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Springer Mathematical Systems Theory II
Book SynopsisControllability and Observability.- Realization and Model Reduction.- Feedback.- References.- Glossary.- Index.
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Springer Beyond Black Swans Inhabiting Indeterminacy
Book Synopsis1.Black Swans and Obsolete Paradigms. The impossibility of a working synthesis and the urgency of inhabiting indeterminacy.- 2. What about Social Bonds? The grand illusions of the hypertechnological civilization and the complex interaction of the Human with technique and machines.- 3. Beyond Linearity: the Complexity of Complexity and an Epistemology of Error.- 4. Dilemmas and Paradoxes of the Hypercomplex Society.- 5. For a “New Social Contract”. The asymmetrical society and the strategic centrality of education and training.- 6. The Tyranny of Concreteness and the Urgency of a Radical Breakthrough.- 7. To Cross or to Inhabit the Frontiers of the Hypercomplex Society? Rethinking education and the general architecture of the fields of knowledge.- 8. Thought and Thinking in the Hypertechnological Civilization of Automation and Simulation: Artificial Intelligence as a “New Epistemological Fracture”.- 9. Rethinking the Human and Re-mediating the Social: because “Democracy is Complexity”.
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Springer Research and Innovation Forum 2025 Vol1
Book SynopsisIndustry 5.0. and its innovation dynamics: modelling and explaining its potential.-Velocity Inequalities in Digital Public Service Ecosystem: David against Goliath in the Agri Food Value Chain?.- Exploring the Role of Digital Literacy in Enhancing Entrepreneurial Success and Innovation within Ecosystems.- The Dark Side of the Metaverse: Managing Human Resource Management challenges in Virtual Environments.- Integrating Model Driven Development within Agile Methods: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review.- Implementing DEA with Gaussian AHP and Pearson Correction for Efficiency Benchmarking in a Food Retail Chain.- Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) in Business, Management and Economics: Trends, Gaps, and Methodological Rigor.- Why Artificial Intelligence Needs Sociology?.- The (Dis)Illusion of the Web3 Decentralization for Global Governance in the Age of GenAI.- Digital Human: the new frontier of Artificial Intelligence for Customer Experience.- Dynamic Capabilities in AI Powered Business Ecosystems: An Outline of an Emerging Research Agenda.- Acceptance of Generative AI in the Creative Industry: The Role of Brand Recognition, Trust, and Experience Moderation in AI Adoption.- Beyond imagination: Design Thinking, creativity and the power of AI.- Redesigning skills for the twin transition: a path toward sustainable innovation.- Building the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs: The Role of Group Projects and Experiential Education in Nurturing Entrepreneurial Mindset and Skills.- University Education and Entrepreneurial Intention: The Role of University Climate and Entrepreneurship Education.- The Contribution of Hungarian Universities to the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Comparative Analysis of State run, Church affiliated, and Model Transition Institutions (2019 2023).- Redefining Architecture Pedagogy for GenAI Enhanced Classrooms: Impacts on Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes.- Reaching the Parts Others Cannot: Embedding Further Education in the UK Innovation Ecosystem for Inclusive Growth and Place Based Innovation.- Smart Transition in Historical Small Towns: First Insights from a Digital Material Flow Assessment in the Italian Case Study of Taurasi.- TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK FOR PROMOTING WALKABILITY IN TAHLIA STREET, JEDDAH CITY.- Towards Touristic Based Development for Al Tayseer Area in Makkah City.- Humanizing cities through urban design: urban design principles and policy making considerations.- Private Equity in U.S. Healthcare.- Digital Revolution in Pharmaceutical Industry: A Network Analysis of Industry 5.0 Technologies.- Interpretable Machine Learning for Metastasis Prediction in Paragangliomas and Pheochromocytomas.- Enhancing Precision Medicine in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer Diagnosis through Artificial Intelligence.- Detection of gait alterations using mobile device sensors and machine learning.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Smart Transport Systems and the Digital Economy Infrastructure
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Averaging for Nonlinear Dynamics with Applications and Numerical Bifurcations
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Computer Vision and Robotics
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Computer Vision and Robotics
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Systems Engineering in Agile Software Development
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Springer International Publishing AG Introduction to Partial Differential Equations
Book SynopsisThis textbook is designed for a one year course covering the fundamentals of partial differential equations, geared towards advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in mathematics, science, engineering, and elsewhere. The exposition carefully balances solution techniques, mathematical rigor, and significant applications, all illustrated by numerous examples. Extensive exercise sets appear at the end of almost every subsection, and include straightforward computational problems to develop and reinforce new techniques and results, details on theoretical developments and proofs, challenging projects both computational and conceptual, and supplementary material that motivates the student to delve further into the subject. No previous experience with the subject of partial differential equations or Fourier theory is assumed, the main prerequisites being undergraduate calculus, both one- and multi-variable, ordinary differential equations, and basic linear algebra. While the classical topics of separation of variables, Fourier analysis, boundary value problems, Green's functions, and special functions continue to form the core of an introductory course, the inclusion of nonlinear equations, shock wave dynamics, symmetry and similarity, the Maximum Principle, financial models, dispersion and solutions, Huygens' Principle, quantum mechanical systems, and more make this text well attuned to recent developments and trends in this active field of contemporary research. Numerical approximation schemes are an important component of any introductory course, and the text covers the two most basic approaches: finite differences and finite elements.Trade Review“This textbook furnishes the basis for a 1-year introductory course in partial differential equations for advanced undergraduates. … The book is written with great care and great attention to detail throughout. At the end of every chapter there are well-chosen exercises that genuinely add depth to the concepts treated in the text. … this book can be wholeheartedly recommended.” (M. Kunzinger, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 181, 2016)“This book easily covers all the material one might want in a course aimed at first-time students of PDEs. … I recommend this one highly: It provides the best first-course introduction to a vast and ever-more relevant and active area. Students, and perhaps instructors too, will learn much from it. If they wish to go beyond the material taught in a first course, this text will prepare them better than any other I know.” (SIAM Review, Vol. 56 (3), September, 2014)“Introduction to Partial Differential Equations is a complete, well-written textbook for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. Olver … thoroughly covers the topic in a readable format and includes plenty of examples and exercises, ranging from the typical to independent projects and computer projects. … Instructors teaching an introduction to partial differential equations course will want to consider this textbook as a viable option for their students. Summing Up: Highly Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.” (S. L. Sullivan, Choice, Vol. 51 (11), July, 2014)“This introduction to partial differential equations is addressed to advanced undergraduates or graduate students … . an imposing book that includes plenty of material for two semesters even at the graduate level. … The author succeeds at maintaining a good balance between solution methods, mathematical rigor, and applications. With appropriate selection of topics this could serve for a one semester introductory course for undergraduates or a full year course for graduate students. … the author has clearly taken pains to make it readable and accessible.” (William J. Satzer, MAA Reviews, January, 2014)Table of ContentsWhat are Partial Differential Equations?.- Linear and Nonlinear Waves.- Fourier Series.- Separation of Variables.- Finite Differences.- Generalized Functions and Green’s Functions.- Complex Analysis and Conformal Mapping.- Fourier Transforms.- Linear and Nonlinear Evolution Equations.- A General Framework for Linear Partial Differential Equations.- Finite Elements and Weak Solutions.- Dynamics of Planar Media.- Partial Differential Equations in Space.
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Springer International Publishing AG Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality: The Importance of Being Borderline
Book SynopsisScientists have always attempted to explain the world in terms of a few unifying principles. In the fifth century B.C. Democritus boldly claimed that reality is simply a collection of indivisible and eternal parts or atoms. Over the centuries his doctrine has remained a landmark, and much progress in physics is due to its distinction between subjective perception and objective reality. This book discusses theory reduction in physics, which states that the whole is nothing more than the sum of its parts: the properties of things are directly determined by their constituent parts. Reductionism deals with the relation between different theories that address different levels of reality, and uses extrapolations to apply that relation in different sciences. Reality shows a complex structure of connections, and the dream of a unified interpretation of all phenomena in several simple laws continues to attract anyone with genuine philosophical and scientific interests. If the most radical reductionist point of view is correct, the relationship between disciplines is strictly inclusive: chemistry becomes physics, biology becomes chemistry, and so on. Eventually, only one science, indeed just a single theory, would survive, with all others merging in the Theory of Everything. Is the current coexistence of different sciences a mere historical venture which will end when the Theory of Everything has been established? Can there be a unified description of nature? Rather than an analysis of full reductionism, this book focuses on aspects of theory reduction in physics and stimulates reflection on related questions: is there any evidence of actual reduction? Are the examples used in the philosophy of science too simplistic? What has been endangered by the search for (the) ultimate truth? Has the dream of reductionist reason created any monsters? Is big science one such monster? What is the point of embedding science Y within science X, if predictions cannot be made on that basis?Table of ContentsPreface.- A Galilean Dialogue.- A random journey.- History.- Reductionism: the philosophical point of view.- Reduction in physics and philosophy.- Emergence.- A first attempt to tame complexity.- A short history of statistical mechanics.- Towards a systematic theory.- The paradigmatic Brownian motion.- Critical Phenomena.- Discussion.- From microscopic to macroscopic realities.- The problem of irreversibility.- Irreversibility and emergence.- From microscopic to macroscopic equations.- From atoms to cold fronts.- Concluding remarks.- Determinism, chaos and reductionism.- General remarks on determinism.- An excursus on chaos.- Chaos and complexity.- Chaos and probability.- Quarrels on chaos and determinism.- Concluding remarks.- Quantum Mechanics.- Classical versus quantum mechanics.- Chemistry vs applied Quantum Mechanics.- Summary and conclusions.- Some conclusions.- Unity of science beyond reductionism.- It from bit?.- Concluding remarks.
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Springer International Publishing AG Turbulence
Book SynopsisThis book covers the major problems of turbulence and turbulent processes, including physical phenomena, their modeling and their simulation.After a general introduction in Chapter 1 illustrating many aspects dealing with turbulent flows, averaged equations and kinetic energy budgets are provided in Chapter 2. The concept of turbulent viscosity as a closure of the Reynolds stress is also introduced. Wall-bounded flows are presented in Chapter 3 and aspects specific to boundary layers and channel or pipe flows are also pointed out. Free shear flows, namely free jets and wakes, are considered in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 deals with vortex dynamics. Homogeneous turbulence, isotropy and dynamics of isotropic turbulence are presented in Chapters 6 and 7. Turbulence is then described both in the physical space and in the wave number space. Time dependent numerical simulations are presented in Chapter 8, where an introduction to large eddy simulation is offered. The last three chapters of the book summarize remarkable digital techniques current and experimental. Many results are presented in a practical way, based on both experiments and numerical simulations.The book is written for a advanced engineering students as well as postgraduate engineers and researchers. For students, it contains the essential results as well as details and demonstrations whose oral transmission is often tedious. At a more advanced level, the text provides numerous references which allow readers to find quickly further study regarding their work and to acquire a deeper knowledge on topics of interest.Table of Contents Introduction to turbulence.- Statistical description of turbulent flows.- Wall-bounded turbulent flows.- Free turbulent flows: jets and wakes.- Vortex dynamics.- Homogeneous and isotropic turbulence.- The dynamics of isotropic turbulence.- Direct and large eddy simulation of turbulent flows.- Turbulence models.- Experimental methods.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Teubner-Taschenbuch der statistischen Physik
Book SynopsisAus moderner Sicht werden in diesem Teubner-Taschenbuch die Grundlagen und wichtige Anwendungen der statistischen Physik dargestellt. Auf eine gründliche Darstellung der Begriffsbildungen der statistischen Physik, auf die korrekte Herleitung grundlegender Gleichungen und auf die Durchführung wichtiger Beweise wird besonderer Wert gelegt. Das Buch eignet sich als Begleittext für Kurs- und Spezialvorlesungen, als Repetitorium zur Prüfungsvorbereitung und als Nachschlagewerk zur raschen Information für breite Leserkreise aus Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften und technischen Disziplinen, insbesondere für Studenten dieser Fachrichtungen.Table of ContentsKombinatorik - Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie - Quantenmechanik und Wahrscheinlichkeit - Thermodynamik - Statistische Physik der Gleichgewichtssysteme - Statistische Physik der Systeme im Nichtgleichgewicht - Statistische Physik und Informationstheorie - Phasenraummethoden der Quantenstatistik - Fraktaltheorie und Perkolationstheorie - Theorie dynamischer Systeme, Chaostheorie, Ergodentheorie - Statistische Thermodynamik chemischer Systeme - Statistische Theorie biologischer Systeme - Synergetik, weitere Anwendungen der statistischen Physik
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Explicit Stability Conditions for Continuous
Book SynopsisExplicit Stability Conditions for Continuous Systems deals with non-autonomous linear and nonlinear continuous finite dimensional systems. Explicit conditions for the asymptotic, absolute, input-to-state and orbital stabilities are discussed. This monograph provides new tools for specialists in control system theory and stability theory of ordinary differential equations, with a special emphasis on the Aizerman problem. A systematic exposition of the approach to stability analysis based on estimates for matrix-valued functions is suggested and various classes of systems are investigated from a unified viewpoint.Table of ContentsPreliminaries.- Perturbations of Linear Systems.- Linear Systems with Slowly Varying Coefficients.- Linear Dissipative and Piecewise Constant Systems.- Nonlinear Systems with Autonomous Linear Parts.- The Aizerman Problem.- Nonlinear Systems with Time-Variant Linear Parts.- Essentially Nonlinear Systems.- The Lur'e Type Systems.- The Aizerman Type Problem for Nonautonomous Systems.- Input - State Stability.- Orbital Stability and Forced Oscillations.- Positive and Nontrivial Steady States.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics
Book SynopsisSpontaneous pattern formation in nonlinear dissipative systems far from equilibrium occurs in a variety of settings in nature and technology, and has applications ranging from nonlinear optics through solid and fluid mechanics, physical chemistry and chemical engineering to biology. This book explores the forefront of current research, describing in-depth the analytical methods that elucidate the complex evolution of nonlinear dissipative systems.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "This book presents thorough descriptions of analytical methods divulging the complex evolution of nonlinear dissipative systems, and introduces the reader to the forefront of current research. … This book addresses graduate students and non-specialists from the many related areas of applied mathematics, physical chemistry, chemical engineering and biology, as well as the seasoned scientist in search of a modern source of reference." (Ömer Kavaklioglu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1098 (24), 2006) "This substantial monograph summarizes a broad selection of results concerning the dynamics of model nonlinear dissipative partial differential equations. … The layout and figures are generally very clear and the material is well-organised. … Overall I recommend this book as a very useful reference and guide to the literature. It will undoubtedly be of use to those working in very different areas of nonlinear science." (Jonathan Dawes, Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 584, 2007) "The book begins with a brief overview of dynamical systems theory, which is helpful for understanding the bulk of the book. … In summary, this book is a clear and comprehensive review of this interesting area of pattern formation, and usefully complements existing texts. It is particularly useful as a reference to the development of the theory of stability of fronts and defects." (Alastair M. Rucklidge, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2008 f)Table of ContentsDynamics, Stability and Bifurcations.- Fronts and Interfaces.- Systems with Separated Scales.- Amplitude Equations for Patterns.- Amplitude Equations for Waves.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos,
Book SynopsisConcepts, methods and techniques of statistical physics in the study of correlated, as well as uncorrelated, phenomena are being applied ever increasingly in the natural sciences, biology and economics in an attempt to understand and model the large variability and risks of phenomena. This is the first textbook written by a well-known expert that provides a modern up-to-date introduction for workers outside statistical physics. Table of ContentsUseful Notions of Probability Theory.- Sums of Random Variables, Random Walks and the Central Limit Theorem.- Large Deviations.- Power Law Distributions.- Fractals and Multifractals.- Rank-Ordering Statistics and Heavy Tails.- Statistical Mechanics: Probabilistic Point of View and the Concept of “Temperature”.- Long-Range Correlations.- Phase Transitions: Critical Phenomena and First-Order Transitions.- Transitions, Bifurcations and Precursors.- The Renormalization Group.- The Percolation Model.- Rupture Models.- Mechanisms for Power Laws.- Self-Organized Criticality.- to the Physics of Random Systems.- Randomness and Long-Range Laplacian Interactions.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Open Quantum Systems I: The Hamiltonian Approach
Book SynopsisUnderstanding dissipative dynamics of open quantum systems remains a challenge in mathematical physics. This problem is relevant in various areas of fundamental and applied physics. Significant progress in the understanding of such systems has been made recently. These books present the mathematical theories involved in the modeling of such phenomena. They describe physically relevant models, develop their mathematical analysis and derive their physical implications.Table of Contentsto the Theory of Linear Operators.- to Quantum Statistical Mechanics.- Elements of Operator Algebras and Modular Theory.- Quantum Dynamical Systems.- The Ideal Quantum Gas.- Topics in Spectral Theory.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Statistical Methods in Quantum Optics 1: Master Equations and Fokker-Planck Equations
Book SynopsisThis is the first of a two-volume presentation on current research problems in quantum optics, and will serve as a standard reference in the field for many years to come. The book provides an introduction to the methods of quantum statistical mechanics used in quantum optics and their application to the quantum theories of the single-mode laser and optical bistability. The generalized representations of Drummond and Gardiner are discussed together with the more standard methods for deriving Fokker-Planck equations.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews"To sum up: Statistical Methods in Quantum Optics 1 is an excellent book. Try it, you'll like it!" (M.O. Scully, Physics Today, 2000)"The book is carefully written, in considerable detail, paying attention to both foundations and applications. It contains exercices completing or generalizing the material presented, and ample references to the literature. It is, therefore, very useful as the basis for a course." (V.R. Vieira, Mathematical Reviews, 2000f) PHYSICS TODAY"…a valuable addition to the literature…an excellent book. Try it, you’ll like it!” "It is a pleasure to recommend this title thoroughly for both individual and institutional purchase." (D. L. Andrews (University of Anglia), Contemporary Physics 2002, vol. 43, page 232-233)Table of Contents1. Dissipation in Quantum Mechanics: The Master Equation Approach.- 2. Two-Level Atoms and Spontaneous Emission.- 3. Quantum—Classical Correspondence for the Electromagnetic Field I: The Glauber—Sudarshan P Representation.- 4. Quantum—Classical Correspondence for the Electromagnetic Field II: P, Q, and Wigner Representations.- 5. Fokker—Planck Equations and Stochastic Differential Equations.- 6. Quantum—Classical Correspondence for Two-Level Atoms.- 7. The Single-Mode Homogeneously Broadened Laser I: Preliminaries.- 8. The Single-Mode Homogeneously Broadened Laser II: Phase-Space Analysis.- References.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Theory of Orbits: Volume 1: Integrable Systems
Book SynopsisHalf a century ago, S. Chandrasekhar wrote these words in the preface to his l celebrated and successful book: In this monograph an attempt has been made to present the theory of stellar dy namics as a branch of classical dynamics - a discipline in the same general category as celestial mechanics. [ ... J Indeed, several of the problems of modern stellar dy namical theory are so severely classical that it is difficult to believe that they are not already discussed, for example, in Jacobi's Vorlesungen. Since then, stellar dynamics has developed in several directions and at var ious levels, basically three viewpoints remaining from which to look at the problems encountered in the interpretation of the phenomenology. Roughly speaking, we can say that a stellar system (cluster, galaxy, etc.) can be con sidered from the point of view of celestial mechanics (the N-body problem with N » 1), fluid mechanics (the system is represented by a material con tinuum), or statistical mechanics (one defines a distribution function for the positions and the states of motion of the components of the system).Trade ReviewFrom the reviews "The book is ... didactically written and contains topics from classical to most modern ones, treated rigorously by indicating where complete proofs are to be found."Zentralblatt für Mathematik, 1999Table of Contents— The Theory of Orbits from Epicycles to “Chaos”.- 1. Dynamics and Dynamical Systems — Quod Satis.- 2. The Two-Body Problem.- 3. The N-Body Problem.- 4. The Three-Body Problem.- 5. Orbits in Given Potentials.- Mathematical Appendix.- A.1 Spherical Trigonometry.- A.2 Curvilinear Coordinate Systems.- A.3 Riemannian Geometry.- Bibliographical Notes.- Name Index.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Quantenmechanik (QM I): Eine Einführung
Book SynopsisDas bewährte Standardlehrbuch in umfassend überarbeiteter und ergänzter 7. Auflage mit zahlreichen neu gestalteten Abbildungen, neuen Kapiteln zur supersymmetrischen Quantenmechanik und Theorie des Messprozesses sowie über 100 Aufgaben. Neben den Grundlagen und vielen Anwendungen erörtert der Autor neue Aspekte der Quantentheorie und ihrer experimentellen Überprüfung. Die explizite Ausführung aller Zwischenrechnungen hilft Studierenden, Quantenmechanik schneller und leichter zu verstehen. Die optimale Vorbereitung auf "Quantenmechanik für Fortgeschrittene (QM II)" desselben Autors. Im Anhang: mathematische Hilfsmittel und ergänzende Formeln.Table of ContentsHistorische und experimentelle Grundlagen.- Wellenfunktion und Schrödinger-Gleichung.- Eindimensionale Probleme.- Unschärferelation.- Der Drehimpuls.- Zentralpotential I.- Bewegung im elektromagnetischen Feld.- Operatoren, Matrizen, Zustandsvektoren.- Spin.- Addition von Drehimpulsen.- Näherungsmethoden für stationäre Zustände.- Relativistische Korrekturen.- Atome mit mehreren Elektronen.- Zeeman-Effekt und Stark-Effekt.- Moleküle.- Zeitabhängige Phänomene.- Zentralpotential II.- Streutheorie.- Supersymmetrische Quantentheorie.- Zustand und Meßprozeß in der Quantenmechanik.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Variational Methods: Applications to Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Hamiltonian Systems
Book SynopsisThis, the fourth edition of Stuwe’s book on the calculus of variations, surveys new developments in this exciting field. It also gives a concise introduction to variational methods. In particular it includes the proof for the convergence of the Yamabe flow and a detailed treatment of the phenomenon of blow-up. Recently discovered results for backward bubbling in the heat flow for harmonic maps or surfaces are discussed. A number of changes have been made throughout the text.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews of the fourth edition:"The fourth edition of Michael Struwe’s book Variational Methods: Applications to Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Hamiltonian Systems was published in 2008, 18 years after the first edition. … The bibliography alone would make it a valuable reference as it contains nearly 500 references. … Struwe’s book is addressed to researchers in differential geometry and partial differential equations." (John D. Cook, MAA Online, January, 2009)“This is the fourth edition of a standard reference work on direct methods in the calculus of variations. … The book contains a wealth of important results that would otherwise be hard to find in one single place.” (M. Kunzinger, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 160 (4), July, 2010)Table of ContentsThe Direct Methods in the Calculus of Variations.- Minimax Methods.- Limit Cases of the Palais-Smale Condition.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Stability of Nonautonomous Differential Equations
Book SynopsisThis volume covers the stability of nonautonomous differential equations in Banach spaces in the presence of nonuniform hyperbolicity. Topics under discussion include the Lyapunov stability of solutions, the existence and smoothness of invariant manifolds, and the construction and regularity of topological conjugacies. The exposition is directed to researchers as well as graduate students interested in differential equations and dynamical systems, particularly in stability theory.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: “In this book, the authors give a unified presentation of a substantial body of work which they have carried out and which revolves around the concept of nonuniform exponential dichotomy. … This is a well-written book which contains many interesting results. The reader will find significant generalizations of the standard invariant manifold theories, of the Hartman-Grobman theorem … . Anyone interested in these topics will profit from reading this book.” (Russell A. Johnson, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2010 b)Table of ContentsExponential dichotomies.- Exponential dichotomies and basic properties.- Robustness of nonuniform exponential dichotomies.- Stable manifolds and topological conjugacies.- Lipschitz stable manifolds.- Smooth stable manifolds in Rn.- Smooth stable manifolds in Banach spaces.- A nonautonomous Grobman–Hartman theorem.- Center manifolds, symmetry and reversibility.- Center manifolds in Banach spaces.- Reversibility and equivariance in center manifolds.- Lyapunov regularity and stability theory.- Lyapunov regularity and exponential dichotomies.- Lyapunov regularity in Hilbert spaces.- Stability of nonautonomous equations in Hilbert spaces.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets
Book SynopsisThe present third edition of The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets is published only four years after the ?rst edition. The success of the book highlights the interest in a summary of the broad research activities on the application of statistical physics to ?nancial markets. I am very grateful to readers and reviewers for their positive reception and comments. Why then prepare a new edition instead of only reprinting and correcting the second edition? The new edition has been signi?cantly expanded, giving it a more pr- tical twist towards banking. The most important extensions are due to my practical experience as a risk manager in the German Savings Banks’ As- ciation (DSGV): Two new chapters on risk management and on the closely related topic of economic and regulatory capital for ?nancial institutions, - spectively, have been added. The chapter on risk management contains both the basics as well as advanced topics, e. g. coherent risk measures, which have not yet reached the statistical physics community interested in ?nancial m- kets. Similarly, it is surprising how little research by academic physicists has appeared on topics relating to Basel II. Basel II is the new capital adequacy framework which will set the standards in risk management in many co- tries for the years to come. Basel II is responsible for many job openings in banks for which physicists are extemely well quali?ed. For these reasons, an outline of Basel II takes a major part of the chapter on capital.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews of the third edition: "An excellent job of integrating many of the most important themes from econophysics in a relatively small volume. … The book serves its purpose, as a textbook on econophysics, superbly and one can tell that it developed from a course of lectures. The book is written with extreme clarity and an excellent pedagogical style. For philosophers who wish to acquaint themselves with the field of econophysics (beyond a superficial level), this is the book to invest in." (Dean Rickles, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 38, 2007)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Basic Information on Capital Markets.- Random Walks in Finance and Physics.- The Black-Scholes Theory of Option Prices.- Scaling in Financial Data and in Physics.- Turbulence and Foreign Exchange Markets.- Derivative Pricing Beyond Black-Scholes.- Microscopic Market Models.- Theory of Stock Exchange Crashes.- Risk Management.- Economic and Regulatory Capital for Financial Institutions.- Appendix.- Notes and References.- Index.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Information and Self-Organization: A Macroscopic
Book SynopsisThe widespread interest this book has found among professors, scientists and stu dents working in a variety of fields has made a new edition necessary. I have used this opportunity to add three new chapters on recent developments. One of the most fascinating fields of modern science is cognitive science which has become a meet ing place of many disciplines ranging from mathematics over physics and computer science to psychology. Here, one of the important links between these fields is the concept of information which, however, appears in various disguises, be it as Shan non information or as semantic information (or as something still different). So far, meaning seemed to be exorcised from Shannon information, whereas meaning plays a central role in semantic (or as it is sometimes called "pragmatic") information. In the new chapter 13 it will be shown, however, that there is an important interplay between Shannon and semantic information and that, in particular, the latter plays a decisive role in the fixation of Shannon information and, in cognitive processes, al lows a drastic reduction of that information. A second, equally fascinating and rapidly developing field for mathematicians, computer scientists and physicists is quantum information and quantum computa tion. The inclusion of these topics is a must for any modern treatise dealing with in formation. It becomes more and more evident that the abstract concept of informa tion is inseparably tied up with its realizations in the physical world.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews of the third edition: "This enlarged edition of Information and Self-Organization addresses the concept of information in depth: ranging ‘from Shannon information, from which all semantics has been exorcised, to the effects of information on receivers and the self-creation of meaning’—that is, toward semantic information … . Nevertheless, both the qualitative lessons and quantitative analysis presented in the book … very useful for artificial life researchers." (Mikhail Prokopenko, Artificial Life, Vol. 15, 2009)Table of ContentsThe Challenge of Complex Systems.- From the Microscopic to the Macroscopic World ....- ... and Back Again: The Maximum Information Principle (MIP).- An Example from Physics: Thermodynamics.- Application of the Maximum Information Principle to Self-Organizing Systems.- The Maximum Information Principle for Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions: Determination of Order Parameters, Enslaved Modes, and Emerging Patterns.- Information, Information Gain, and Efficiency of Self-Organizing Systems Close to Their Instability Points.- Direct Determination of Lagrange Multipliers.- Unbiased Modeling of Stochastic Processes: How to Guess Path Integrals, Fokker-Planck Equations and Langevin-Îto Equations.- Application to Some Physical Systems.- Transitions Between Behavioral Patterns in Biology. An Example: Hand Movements.- Pattern Recognition. Unbiased Guesses of Processes: Explicit Determination of Lagrange Multipliers.- Information Compression in Cognition: The Interplay between Shannon and Semantic Information.- Quantum Systems.- Quantum Information.- Quantum Computation.- Concluding Remarks and Outlook.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Synergetics: Introduction and Advanced Topics
Book SynopsisThis book is an often-requested reprint of two classic texts by H. Haken: "Synergetics. An Introduction" and "Advanced Synergetics". Synergetics, an interdisciplinary research program initiated by H. Haken in 1969, deals with the systematic and methodological approach to the rapidly growing field of complexity. Going well beyond qualitative analogies between complex systems in fields as diverse as physics, chemistry, biology, sociology and economics, Synergetics uses tools from theoretical physics and mathematics to construct an unifying framework within which quantitative descriptions of complex, self-organizing systems can be made. This may well explain the timelessness of H. Haken's original texts on this topic, which are now recognized as landmarks in the field of complex systems. They provide both the beginning graduate student and the seasoned researcher with solid knowledge of the basic concepts and mathematical tools. Moreover, they admirably convey the spirit of the pioneering work by the founder of Synergetics through the essential applications contained herein that have lost nothing of their paradigmatic character since they were conceived.Table of ContentsAn Introduction.- Advanced Topics.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Statistical Physics: An Advanced Approach with
Book SynopsisThe book is divided into two parts. The first part looks at the modeling of statistical systems before moving on to an analysis of these systems. This second edition contains new material on: estimators based on a probability distribution for the parameters; identification of stochastic models from observations; and statistical tests and classification methods.Table of Contents1 Statistical Physics: Is More than Statistical Mechanics.- I Modeling of Statistical Systems.- 2 Random Variables: Fundamentals of Probability Theory and Statistics.- 3 Random Variables in State Space: Classical Statistical Mechanics of Fluids.- 4 Random Fields: Textures and Classical Statistical Mechanics of Spin Systems.- 5 Time-Dependent Random Variables: Classical Stochastic Processes.- 6 Quantum Random Systems.- 7 Changes of External Conditions.- II Analysis of Statistical Systems.- 8 Estimation of Parameters.- 9 Signal Analysis: Estimation of Spectra.- 10 Estimators Based on a Probability Distribution for the Parameters.- 11 Identification of Stochastic Models from Observations.- 12 Estimating the Parameters of a Hidden Stochastic Model.- 13 Statistical Tests and Classification Methods.- Appendix: Random Number Generation for Simulating Realizations of Random Variables.- Problems.- Hints and Solutions.- References.
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