Applications of mathematics and informatics in military science / Nicholas J. Daras, editor.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1. General. The significance of research and development for national defence and its relation with the military university institutions / Nikolaos Uzunoglu -- Part 2. Applied operational research & military applications. Selected topics in critical element detection / Jose L. Walteros and Panos M. Pardalos -- Study of engagement with mobile targets / Spiridon Tassopoulos -- Part 3. Signal Processing, Scattering. Solving an electromagnetic scattering problem in chiral media / Christodoulos Athanasiadis, Sotiria Dimitroula and Kostantinos Skourogiannis -- Orthonormality in interpolation schemes for reconstructing signals / Nicholas J. Daras -- Part 4. Scientific computing and applications. Computer graphics techniques in military applications / Dimitrios Christou, Antonios Danelakis, Marilena Mitrouli and Dimitrios Triantafyllou -- Numerical optimization for the length problem / Christos Kravvaritis and Marilena Mitrouli -- Part 5. Simulation and combat models. Adaptive policies for sequential sampling under incomplete information and a cost constraint / Apostolos Burnetas and Odysseas Kanavetas -- On a lanchester combat model / G. Kaimakamis and N. B. Zographopoulos -- Land warfare and complexity / Dionysios Stromatias -- Part 6. Satellite Remote Sensing. Wavelet transform in remote sensing with implementation in edge detection and noise reduction / Pantelis N. Michalis -- Optimal orbital coverage of theater operations and targets / Vasileios Oikonomou -- Part 7. Coding, statistical modelling and applications. A bird's-Eye view of modern symmetric cryptography from combinatorial designs / Christos Koukouvinos and Dimitris E. Simos -- On the weak convergence of an empirical estimator of the discrete-Time semi-Markov kernel / Stylianos Georgiadis and Nikolaos Limnios -- Analysis methods for unreplicated factorial experiments / P. Angelopoulos, C. Koukouvinos and A. Skountzou