Entropy

Information-Theoretic Criteria for Statistical Model Selection

edited by

Abhijit Mandal

and

Suneel Babu Chatla

submission deadline 30 Oct 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4424 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-dimensional data; model selection; goodness-of-fit; data science; machine learning; big data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Quantum Probability and Randomness V

edited by

Andrei Khrennikov

and

Karl Svozil

submission deadline 30 Oct 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2353 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundation; quantum vs. classical probability and randomness; quantum information; Bell inequality; entanglement; contextuality; random generators; generalized probabilistic models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Handling Preference Information for Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making: Theory and Applications in Management, Economics and Finance

edited by

Ewa Roszkowska

and Tomasz Wachowicz

submission deadline 30 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1012 | Submission Open

Keywords: preference information; preference analysis; weight determination; entropy; uncertainty; fuzziness; MCDM; fuzzy MCDM; group decision-making; machine learning; artificial intelligence; game theory; decision support systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Thermodynamics in Sustainable Engineering Process Systems

edited by

Yasar Demirel

submission deadline 30 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 227 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermodynamic analysis; energy analysis; exergy analysis; process intensification; machine learning; artificial intelligence; second law analysis; life cycle cost analysis; sustainability analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

From Functional Imaging to Free Energy—Dedicated to Professor Karl Friston on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

edited by

Thomas Parr

,

Giovanni Pezzulo

, Rosalyn Moran,

Maxwell Ramstead

, Axel Constant and Anjali Bhat

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 22 articles | Viewed by 35394 | Submission Open

Keywords: active inference; free-energy principle; Bayesian; variational inference; functional imaging; predictive coding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)

The Landauer Principle and Its Implementations in Physics, Chemistry and Biology: Current Status, Critics and Controversies

edited by

Edward Bormashenko

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 15957 | Submission Open

Keywords: Landauer principle; entropy; information; the second law of thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Information Security and Data Privacy

edited by Mina Sheikhalishahi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12278 | Submission Open

Keywords: data privacy; data security; information theory; security and privacy metrics; theoretical analysis of data security and privacy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Advanced New Physical Layer Technologies for Next-Generation Wireless Communications

edited by Lei Liu, Zhijin Qin,

Chongwen Huang

, Yuhao Chi and

Yang Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 7325 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; channel codes; multiuser detection; holographic MIMO; channel capacity; electromagnetic field; semantic communication; deep learning; reconfigurable intelligent surface; integrated sensing and communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era

edited by Xiao Yuan, Xiaoming Zhang and Bálint Koczor

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7102 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum computing; noisy intermediate-scale quantum; variational quantum simulation; quantum computational chemistry; quantum materials; quantum error mitigation; quantum error correction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

The Black Hole Information Problem

edited by

Stephen Hsu

,

Xavier Calmet

and Roberto Casadio

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5510 | Submission Open

Keywords: black holes; quantum information; unitarity; Hawking radiation; quantum foundations; decoherence; AdS/CFT duality; quantum gravity; quantum fields in curved space

(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)

Kinetic Models of Chemical Reactions

edited by

Gregory Yablonsky

and

Alexander N. Gorban

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1673 | Submission Open

Keywords: heterogeneous catalysis; chemical kinetics; complexity in chemical kinetics; graph theory in chemical kinetics; chemical kinetics and thermodynamics; non-steady-state chemical kinetics; chemical relaxation; temporal analysis of products (TAP); non-linearity in chemical kinetics; critical phenomena in chemical kinetics; oscillations and multiplicity in chemistry; catalyst deactivation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Thermodynamics of Dissipative Structures and Related Emergent Phenomena

edited by Hisashi Ozawa and

Robert Niven

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1058 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-equilibrium thermodynamics; physical kinetics; dissipative structure; entropy production; pattern formation; nonlinear process; emergent phenomena; self-organization; fractal structure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Information Measures in Quantum Systems

edited by Humberto Laguna Galindo

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 187 | Submission Open

Keywords: information measures; quantum Systems; quantum models; complexity; correlation measurements

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Non-equilibrium Physics and Its Interdisciplinary Applications

edited by Neil Johnson and

Pedro D. Manrique

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 179 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-equilibrium; real-world systems; irreversible processes; kinetic theory; stochastic modeling; turbulence; pattern formation; nonlinear dynamics; agent-based models; emerging phenomena; information theory; entropy production; collective phenomena; complex systems; active matter; self-organization; data-driven modeling; biological systems; dynamical phase transitions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Thermalization in Isolated Quantum Systems II

edited by

Vladimir Zelevinsky

submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 134 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum and classical chaos; thermalization in isolated quantum systems; quantum signatures of thermalization; strength functions and thermalization; statistics of particles in quantum thermalized systems; quantum thermalization and collective phenomena; peculiarities of small systems; various definitions of entropy and temperature; thermalization in open systems; time development of thermalization; relaxation to equilibrium; experimental observation of quantum thermalization; quench dynamics; fluctuations in isolated systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Recent Advances in the Theory of Disordered Systems

edited by

Aimin Guo

and

Qiao Chen

submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4868 | Submission Open

Keywords: anderson localization; localization transition; disordered systems; mobility edge; quantum transport; quasiperiodic systems; 2D materials; 1D systems; localization length; participation ratio

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Entropies, Information Geometry and Fluctuations in Non-equilibrium Systems II

edited by

Eun-jin Kim

submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7769 | Submission Open

Keywords: fluctuations; non-equilibrium; entropy; information geometry; dissipation; irreversibility; relative entropy; mutual entropy; generalized entropy; q-entropy; fractional calculus; intermittency; phase transition; patten formation; large deviation; self-assembly; hysteresis; generalized statistical mechanics; quantum systems; field theory; emergent phenomena; temperature

(This special issue belongs to the Section Non-equilibrium Phenomena)

Quantum Information and Probability: From Foundations to Engineering III

edited by

Andrei Khrennikov

submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3070 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Mesoscopic Fluid Mechanics

edited by Tianbai Xiao, Yuan Hu, Xing Ji and

Mikhail Sheremet

submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2798 | Submission Open

Keywords: kinetic theory of gases; rarefied gas dynamics; discrete velocity methods; lattice Boltzmann methods; high-order methods; direct simulation Monte Carlo; particle-in-cell methods; computational fluid dynamics; plasma physics; statistical fluid dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

New Advances in Error-Correcting Codes

edited by Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza and

T. Aaron Gulliver

submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2467 | Submission Open

Keywords: error-correcting codes; channel coding; forward error correction; future networks; quantum channels

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Complexity Characteristics of Natural Language

edited by

Stanisław Drożdż

,

Jarosław Kwapień

and Tomasz Stanisz

submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2226 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural language; complexity; hierarchical organization; long-range correlations; time series analysis; scaling laws; multifractals; complex networks; large language models; natural language generation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

The Random Walk Path of Pál Révész in Probability

edited by Antónia Földes and Endre Csáki

submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 885 | Submission Open

Keywords: laws of large numbers; random walk; Wiener process; strong approximation of the random walks and its local time; anisotropic walk

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Continuous Variables for Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Random Number Generators

edited by

Matteo Schiavon

,

Marco Avesani

and

Cosmo Lupo

submission deadline 15 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 285 | Submission Open

Keywords: continuous variables (CVs); quantum key distribution (QKD); quantum random number generator (QRNG); measurement-device-independent QKD (MDI-QKD); quantum cryptography; coherent detection; free-space and satellite CV-QKD; integrated photonics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

edited by Efstathios G. Charalampidis

submission deadline 18 Nov 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 640 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonlinear dynamical systems; bifurcation theory; numerical continuation methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Universality Classes of Synchronization Phase Transitions

edited by

Géza Ódor

and Shengfeng Deng

submission deadline 19 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 389 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Entropy in Classical and Quantum Information Theory with Applications

edited by

Dominik Szczęśniak

and

Sabre Kais

submission deadline 20 Nov 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 639 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; entropy measures; information theory; quantum information

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Integrated Sensing and Communications

edited by Mehrasa Ahmadipour,

Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)

and Michele Wigger

submission deadline 20 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 562 | Submission Open

Keywords: communication networks; capacity; wireless communication; optical fibres; estimation; detection; active sensing; localisation and mapping; distributed sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Foundational Aspects of Gauge Field Theory

edited by

Lucrezia Ravera

submission deadline 20 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 261 | Submission Open

Keywords: gauge field theory; gauge symmetries; spacetime symmetries; gravity theories; gauge-invariant approaches; fundamental symmetries; cosmology; quantum gravity; black holes; entanglement entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)

Entropy and Nonlinear Signal Processing in Cardiovascular Applications

edited by

José J. Rieta

and

Adrian Luca

submission deadline 22 Nov 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4764 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; nonlinear dynamics; recurrence plots; heart rate variability; photoplethysmography; cardiovascular signals; cardiac arrhythmia detection; applications to cardiovascular; atrial arrhythmias; atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; electrocardiogram; electrogram; signal processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)

Stochastic Thermodynamics of Microscopic Systems

edited by

Welles Antonio Martinez Morgado

and

Silvio Manuel Duarte Queiros

submission deadline 22 Nov 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1830 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-equilibrium statistical mechanics; stochastic thermodynamics; fluctuation relations; small systems; information

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Bayesian Learning and Its Applications in Genomics

edited by

Cen Wu

submission deadline 29 Nov 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2863 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bayesian learning; complex diseases; entropy; high-dimensional genomics data; Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); scalable Bayesian inference; uncertainty quantification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Information Theory and Coding for Wireless Communications II

edited by

Predrag Ivanis

and

Goran Djordjević

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9545 | Submission Open

Keywords: 5G and 6G cellular networks; wireless communication networks; land mobile satellite systems; error correction coding; physical layer security; information processing theory; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Topological Data Analysis Meets Information Theory. New Perspectives for the Analysis of Higher-Order Interactions in Complex Systems

edited by

Tiziano Squartini

,

Fernando Antônio Nóbrega Santos

,

Rossana Mastrandrea

and

Marco Piangerelli

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7230 | Submission Open

Keywords: complexity; information theory; topological data analysis; higher-order interactions; simplicial complexes; hypergraphs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Natural Language Processing and Data Mining

edited by Manling Li

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4708 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural language processing; data mining; information theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)

An Information-Theoretical Perspective on Complex Dynamical Systems

edited by Di Qi and

José F. F. Mendes

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2255 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex dynamical systems; stochastic modeling; data assimilation; information theory; data-driven methods; extreme events

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Applications of Information Theory to Machine Learning

edited by

Bin Chen

,

Shu-Tao Xia

and

Mehul Motani

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2040 | Submission Open

Keywords: adversarial machine learning; self-supervised learning; sequential decision-making (bandit/reinforcement learning); deep learning theory; clustering/community detection; security and privacy in machine learning; generative models; decision theory; federated learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Bayesian Inference and Mathematical Modeling in Complex Biological Systems

edited by Morten Mørup

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1927 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)

Statistical Methods for Modeling High-Dimensional and Complex Data: Second Edition

edited by

Yuehua Wu

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1853 | Submission Open

Keywords: model selection; spatiotemporal modeling; cluster analysis; high-dimensional statistics; data mining; multiple change-point detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Time Series Analysis in Earthquake Complex Networks

edited by

Tamaz Chelidze

,

Luciano Telesca

and

Filippos Vallianatos

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1701 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex systems; laboratory fracture and earthquake process models; nonlinear dynamics and machine learning; non-extensive statistical analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Gases

edited by Antonio J. Ramirez-Pastor and Jose Luis Riccardo

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 1144 | Submission Open

Keywords: fundamentals of lattice gases; equilibrium thermodynamics; adsorption; phase transitions and critical phenomena; transport phenomena and kinetics; surface diffusion; lattice gases in complex systems; quantum lattice gases

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Entanglement in Quantum Spin Systems

edited by Leonardo dos Santos Lima

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 988 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal and spin Hall transport; spin Hall effect; spintronics; longitudinal spin transport; quantum spin one-half and integer spin Heisenberg model; topological phase transition; quantum entanglement; magnon bands; stochastic differential equations and Fokker– Planck equations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Advances in Information and Coding Theory III

edited by

Jun Chen

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 924 | Submission Open

Keywords: information-theoretic methods; coding techniques; distributed storage; cloud computing; machine learning; data analysis; wireless communications; networking; emerging applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Exploring Complexity: Short-Range Order in Medium and High-Entropy Materials

edited by Shunda Chen

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 365 | Submission Open

Keywords: short-range order; complexity; entropy; thermodynamics; statistical mechanics; medium-entropy alloys; high-entropy materials; material properties; structural properties

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Statistical Thermodynamics: Foundations and Applications

edited by

Giulia Grisolia

,

Umberto Lucia

and

Debora Fino

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 332 | Submission Open

Keywords: irreversibility; energy; econophysics and thermoeconocmis; quantum information; fluid mechanics; sustainable development; social physics; biophysics; nanosystems; transport theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Quantum Communication, Quantum Radar, and Quantum Cipher, 2nd Edition

edited by

Osamu Hirota

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 323 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum stream cipher; quantum effect radar and lidar; application of two mode squeezed state to radar system in bad weather; quantum illumination and quantum reading by macroscopic qubit; quantum stream cipher; application of entangled coherent state; quantum entanglement theory for macroscopic qubit in non-ideal situation; holevo capacity and accessible information of optical communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Coding and Algorithms for DNA-Based Data Storage Systems

edited by Olgiça Milenković and Jin Sima

submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 260 | Submission Open

Keywords: coding theory; computational biology; DNA-based data storage; DNA synthesis and sequencing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Probabilistic Models for Dynamical Systems

edited by

Carlos Dias Maciel

submission deadline 1 Dec 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1974 | Submission Open

Keywords: dynamic system modeling; probabilistic models; network models; dynamic Bayesian network; complex system models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Assessing Complexity in Physiological Systems through Biomedical Signals Analysis II

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 10 Dec 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14900 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; fractals; multiscale analysis; linear and nonlinear prediction; self-organization; chaos; information dynamics; symbolic dynamics; nonlinearity; heart rate variability; EEG

(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)

Complexity and Evolution, 2nd Edition

edited by Francis Heylighen and

Tomas Veloz

submission deadline 11 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2941 | Submission Open

Keywords: biological evolution; cognitive evolution; social evolution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Causality and Complex Systems

edited by

Jiang Zhang

,

Peng Cui

and

Hector Zenil

submission deadline 15 Dec 2024 | 15 articles | Viewed by 37994 | Submission Open

Keywords: causal discovery; causal inference; causal emergence; downward causality; causal representation learning; causal reinforcement learning; renormalization; multi-scale analysis; information decomposition; information geometry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

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