Introduction: Signals and Signal Processing. Local Analysis. A Roadmap for the Book -- Continuous Analysis: The Short Time Fourier Transform STFT. The Continuous Wavelet Transform CWT. Case Studies. Notes and Exercises -- The Discrete Wavelet Transform: Redundancy of the CWT and the STFT. The Haar-System. Generalization to Daubechies Wavelets. Multiscale Analysis. A Unifying Viewpoint: Basis Sy…
Efficient Distributed Computation Modulo a Shared Secret -- Multiparty Computation, an Introduction -- Foundations of Modern Cryptography -- Provable Security for Public Key Schemes -- Efficient and Secure Public-Key Cryptosystems.The aim of this text is to treat selected topics of the subject of contemporary cryptology, structured in five quite independent but related themes: - efficient distr…
On the instability of double diffusive convection in porous media under boundary data periodic in space -- Modelling of a free piston problem -- Reflections on frequently used viscoplastic constitutive models -- On hereditary models of polymers -- Edge contact forces in continuous media -- Tangent stiffness of a Timoshenko beam undergoing large displacements -- Qualitative estimates for cross-s…
Stochastic Differential Equations with Jumps in Rd -- Martingale Theory and the Stochastic Integral for Point Processes -- Brownian Motion, Stochastic Integral and Ito's Formula -- Stochastic Differential Equations -- Some Useful Tools in Stochastic Differential Equations -- Stochastic Differential Equations with Non-Lipschitzian Coefficients -- Applications -- How to Use the Stochastic Calculu…
On the Role of Anisotropy in Crystalloacoustics -- Surface Waves of Non-Rayleigh Type -- Nonlinearity in Elastic Surface Waves Acts Nonlocally -- Explicit Secular Equations for Surface Waves in an Anisotropic Elastic Half-Space from Rayleigh to Today -- “Nongeometrical Phenomena” in Propagation of Elastic Surface Waves -- Complex Rays and Internal Diffraction at the Cusp Edge -- Edge Waves …
Overview -- Elements of Probability Theory -- Uncertain Linear Systems and Robustness -- Linear Robust Control Design -- Some Limits of the Robustness Paradigm -- Probabilistic Methods for Robustness -- Monte Carlo Methods -- Randomized Algorithms in Systems and Control -- Probability Inequalities -- Statistical Learning Theory and Control Design -- Sequential Algorithms for Probabilistic Robus…
Keynote Papers -- Discovery of Fuzzy Temporal Associations in Multiple Data Streams -- Applications of Soft Computing in Traffic and Transportation Systems -- Soft Computing Applications in Traffic and Transport Systems: A Review -- Estimation of Public Transport Trips By Feed Forward Back Propagation Artificial Neural Networks; A Case Study For Istanbul -- Clustering of Activity Patterns Using…
WSTST’05 Plenary Abstracts -- Neural Networks -- Fuzzy Systems -- Image Processing -- Computer Security -- Agent Based Systems -- Soft Computing and Hard Computing -- Chance Discovery -- Medicine and Biology -- Humanized Computational Intelligence -- Civil and Environmental Engineering -- Web Intelligence -- Intelligent Hybrid Systems -- Swarm Intelligence and Patterns -- Data Mining and Know…
Mathematical Preliminaries -- Introductory Applications -- Further Applications -- The Method of Multiple Scales -- Some Worked Examples Arising from Physical Problems.Many areas of science and engineering produce difficult mathematical problems , i.e., problems that cannot be solved in any conventional sense. In many cases, against all the apparent odds, it is possible to construct systematic …
Fuzzy Sets -- Fuzzy Estimation -- Fuzzy Probability Theory -- Fuzzy Systems Theory -- Simulation -- Queuing I: One-Step Calculations -- Simulation Optimization -- Queuing II: No One-Step Calculations -- Call Center Model -- Machine Shop I -- Machine Shop II -- Emergency Room Model -- Machine Servicing Problem -- Life Insurance: New Account Model -- Inventory Control I -- Inventory Control II --…