Abstract Currently, 60–80% of litter is plastic, and almost 10% ends up in the ocean directly
or indirectly. Plastics often suffer from photooxidation producing microplastics and these …

This article surveys the literature over the period of the last decade on the emerging field of
self organisation as applied to wireless cellular communication networks. Self organisation …

The emergence of cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS) as a novel paradigm has
revolutionized the relationship between humans, computers and the physical environment …

Over the last decade there has been a growing interest inconceptual modeling'for
simulation. This is signified by a greater intensity of research and volume of papers on the …

This book is a concise navigator across the history of cybernetics, its state-of-the-art and
prospects. The evolution of cybernetics (from N. Wiener to the present day) and the reasons …

The lacking of analytic solutions of diverse partial differential equations (PDEs) gives birth to
a series of computational techniques for numerical solutions. Although numerous latest …

Modelling and simulation (M&S) techniques are frequently used in Operations Research
(OR) to aid decision-making. With growing complexity of systems to be modelled, an …

Simulation models are abstractions of a real-world, or proposed real-world, system. In other
words, the models do not contain every aspect and detail of the system that they are …

In Aesthetic Computing, key scholars and practitioners from art, design, computer science,
and mathematics lay the foundations for a discipline that applies the theory and practice of …

Based on newly developed methods by the author, who is the inventor of HASM methods,
this handbook bridges the gap between the mathematical-oriented theory of surface …