The book is a collection of papers of experts in the fields of information and complexity. Information is a basic structure of the world, while complexity is a fundamental property of systems and ...

School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang 330013, P. R. China State Key Laboratory of Performance Monitoring and Guarantee of Rail Transportation ...

School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing 100029, P. R. China UIBE Belt & Road Energy Trade and Development Center, University of ...

Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science, and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Permanent address: L.D. Landau ...

The main goal of the book is to provide a comprehensive and self-contained proof of the, relatively recent, theorem of characterization of the strong maximum principle due to Molina-Meyer and the ...

The purpose of this book is to encourage the use of non-equilibrium thermodynamics to describe transport in complex, heterogeneous media. With large coupling effects between the transport of heat, ...

This book covers all principal aspects of currently investigated frustrated systems, from exactly solved frustrated models to real experimental frustrated systems, going through renormalization group ...

Enthusiasm for research on the quantum Hall effect (QHE) is unbounded. The QHE is one of the most fascinating and beautiful phenomena in all branches of physics. Tremendous theoretical and ...

Air pollution damages materials, but it has changed dramatically in the past century, with a reduction in the concentration of corrosive primary pollutants in urban atmospheres. At the same time, ...

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, King Faisal University, P. O. Box 400, Hofuf 31982, Saudi Arabia Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Kafrelsheikh University, ...

A real matrix is positive semidefinite if it can be decomposed as A=BB′. In some applications the matrix B has to be elementwise nonnegative. If such a matrix exists, A is called completely positive.

This book provides a broad and in-depth introduction to the geopolitical, economic and trade changes wrought with the increasing influence of the countries of the Global South in international affairs ...