This text focuses on the promotion and accelerated application of nonlinear dynamics, chaotic and other advanced signal processing techniques in engineering and the sciences. Topics covered include nonlinear time series analysis and the processing and synthesis of chaotic signals.

Many processes in nature arise from the interaction of periodic phenomena with random phenomena. The results are processes that are not periodic, but whose statistical functions are periodic functions of time. These processes are called cyclostationary and are an appropriate mathematical model for signals encountered in many fields including communications, radar, sonar, telemetry, acoustics, mechanics, econometrics, astronomy, and biology. Cyclostationary Processes and Time Series: Theory, Applications, and Generalizations addresses these issues and includes the following key features. - Presents the foundations and developments of the second- and higher-order theory of cyclostationary signals - Performs signal analysis using both the classical stochastic process approach and the functional approach for time series - Provides applications in signal detection and estimation, filtering, parameter estimation, source location, modulation format classification, and biological signal characterization - Includes algorithms for cyclic spectral analysis along with Matlab/Octave code - Provides generalizations of the classical cyclostationary model in order to account for relative motion between transmitter and receiver and describe irregular statistical cyclicity in the data

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Uniquely combining theory, application, and computing, this bookexplores the spectral approach to time series analysis The use of periodically correlated (or cyclostationary)processes has become increasingly popular in a range of researchareas such as meteorology, climate, communications, economics, andmachine diagnostics. Periodically Correlated Random Sequencespresents the main ideas of these processes through the use of basicdefinitions along with motivating, insightful, and illustrativeexamples. Extensive coverage of key concepts is provided, includingsecond-order theory, Hilbert spaces, Fourier theory, and thespectral theory of harmonizable sequences. The authors also providea paradigm for nonparametric time series analysis including testsfor the presence of PC structures. Features of the book include: * An emphasis on the link between the spectral theory of unitaryoperators and the correlation structure of PC sequences * A discussion of the issues relating to nonparametric time seriesanalysis for PC sequences, including estimation of the mean,correlation, and spectrum * A balanced blend of historical background with modernapplication-specific references to periodically correlatedprocesses * An accompanying Web site that features additional exercises aswell as data sets and programs written in MATLAB® forperforming time series analysis on data that may have a PCstructure Periodically Correlated Random Sequences is an ideal text ontime series analysis for graduate-level statistics and engineeringstudents who have previous experience in second-order stochasticprocesses (Hilbert space), vector spaces, random processes, andprobability. This book also serves as a valuable reference forresearch statisticians and practitioners in areas of probabilityand statistics such as time series analysis, stochastic processes,and prediction theory.

This is a book book for researchers and practitioners interested in modeling, prediction and forecasting of natural systems based on nonlinear dynamics. It is a practical guide to data analysis and to the development of algorithms, especially for complex systems. Topics such as the characterization of nonlinear correlations in data as dynamical systems, reconstruction of dynamical models from data, nonlinear noise reduction and the limits of predicatability are discussed. The chapters are written by leading experts and consider practical problems such as signal and time series analysis, biomedical data analysis, financial analysis, stochastic modeling, human evolution, and political modeling. The book includes new methods for nonlinear filtering of complex signals, new algorithms for signal classification, and the concept of the "Global Brain".

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