The aim of this book is to provide a basic and self-contained
introduction to the ideas underpinning fractal analysis. The book
illustrates some important applications issued from real data sets, real
physical and natural phenomena as well as real applications in different
fields, and consequently, presents to the readers the opportunity to
implement fractal analysis in their specialties according to the
step-by-step guide found in the book.
Besides advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and senior
researchers, this book may also serve scientists and research workers
from industrial settings, where fractals and multifractals are required
for modeling real-world phenomena and data, such as finance, medicine,
engineering, transport, images, signals, among others.
For the theorists, rigorous mathematical developments are established
with necessary prerequisites that make the book self-containing. For the
practitioner often interested in model building and analysis, we provide
the cornerstone ideas.