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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Entropy 2021 Best Paper Award. All papers published in Entropy from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, five winners were selected.

One Review:
High-Entropy Alloys for Advanced Nuclear Applications
By Ed J. Pickering, Alexander W. Carruthers, Paul J. Barron, Simon C.
Middleburgh, David E. J. Armstrong and Amy S. Gandy
Entropy 2021, 23(1), 98; doi:10.3390/e23010098

Four Articles:
A Technical Critique of Some Parts of the Free Energy Principle
By Martin Biehl, Felix A. Pollock and Ryota Kanai
Entropy 2021, 23(3), 293; doi:10.3390/e23030293

Stochastic Chaos and Markov Blankets
By Karl Friston, Conor Heins, Kai Ueltzhöffer, Lancelot Da Costa and Thomas Parr
Entropy 2021, 23(9), 1220; doi:10.3390/e23091220

Probability Representation of Quantum States
By Olga V. Man’ko and Vladimir I. Man’ko
Entropy 2021, 23(5), 549; doi:10.3390/e23050549

Thermodynamic Efficiency of Interactions in Self-Organizing Systems
By Ramil Nigmatullin and Mikhail Prokopenko
Entropy 2021, 23(6), 757; doi:10.3390/e23060757

Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Entropy in 2023 after peer review.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Entropy 2021 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Entropy.

Kind regards,
Entropy Editorial Office

 
Entropy 2021 Best Paper Award
 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Entropy will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).
 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

26 pages, 2272 KiB  
Article
Metacognition as a Consequence of Competing Evolutionary Time Scales
by Franz Kuchling, Chris Fields and Michael Levin
Entropy 2022, 24(5), 601; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24050601 - 26 Apr 2022
22 pages, 741 KiB  
Article
Quantum Coherences and Classical Inhomogeneities as Equivalent Thermodynamics Resources
by Andrew Smith, Kanupriya Sinha and Christopher Jarzynski
Entropy 2022, 24(4), 474; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24040474 - 29 Mar 2022
14 pages, 1209 KiB  
Article
Power-Optimal Control of a Stirling Engine’s Frictional Piston Motion
by Raphael Paul, Abdellah Khodja, Andreas Fischer, Robin Masser and Karl Heinz Hoffmann
Entropy 2022, 24(3), 362; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24030362 - 3 Mar 2022
18 pages, 12693 KiB  
Article
Recasting the (Synchrosqueezed) Short-Time Fourier Transform as an Instantaneous Spectrum
by Steven Sandoval and Phillip L. De Leon
Entropy 2022, 24(4), 518; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24040518 - 6 Apr 2022
22 pages, 743 KiB  
Review
The Free Energy Principle for Perception and Action: A Deep Learning Perspective
by Pietro Mazzaglia, Tim Verbelen, Ozan Çatal and Bart Dhoedt
Entropy 2022, 24(2), 301; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24020301 - 21 Feb 2022

Award Committee

Dr. Kevin Knuth Chairman
(Home Address)
Prof. Nikolay K Vitanov
Prof. Syed Jafar
Dr. Carlo Cafaro
University at Albany-SUNY
Dr. Udo Von Toussaint
Max-Planck-Insitut for Plasmaphysics
Prof. Geert Verdoolaege
Ghent University
Prof. Lamberto Rondoni
Politecnico di Torino
Prof. GuiLu Long
Dr. Antonio Maria Scarfone
ISC-CNR - Politecnico di Torino
Dr. Jean-Noël Jaubert
Université de Lorraine
Dr. Yasar Demirel
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Prof. Carlos Mejía-Monasterio
School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystems Engineering / Technical University of Madrid
Prof. Miguel Rubi
University of Barcelona, Faculty of Physics
Prof. Matteo Convertino
Tsinghua University

Winner

28 pages, 3278 KiB  
Review
High-Entropy Alloys for Advanced Nuclear Applications
by Ed J. Pickering, Alexander W. Carruthers, Paul J. Barron, Simon C. Middleburgh, David E. J. Armstrong and Amy S. Gandy
Entropy 2021, 23(1), 98; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23010098 - 11 Jan 2021
24 pages, 418 KiB  
Article
A Technical Critique of Some Parts of the Free Energy Principle
by Martin Biehl, Felix A. Pollock and Ryota Kanai
Entropy 2021, 23(3), 293; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23030293 - 27 Feb 2021
33 pages, 4557 KiB  
Article
Stochastic Chaos and Markov Blankets
by Karl Friston, Conor Heins, Kai Ueltzhöffer, Lancelot Da Costa and Thomas Parr
Entropy 2021, 23(9), 1220; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23091220 - 17 Sep 2021
19 pages, 332 KiB  
Article
Probability Representation of Quantum States
by Olga V. Man’ko and Vladimir I. Man’ko
Entropy 2021, 23(5), 549; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23050549 - 29 Apr 2021
12 pages, 557 KiB  
Article
Thermodynamic Efficiency of Interactions in Self-Organizing Systems
by Ramil Nigmatullin and Mikhail Prokopenko
Entropy 2021, 23(6), 757; https://doi.org/10.3390/e23060757 - 16 Jun 2021

Winner

54 pages, 5393 KiB  
Review
Thermodynamics in Ecology—An Introductory Review
by Søren Nors Nielsen, Felix Müller, Joao Carlos Marques, Simone Bastianoni and Sven Erik Jørgensen
Entropy 2020, 22(8), 820; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22080820 - 27 Jul 2020
25 pages, 335 KiB  
Article
The Role of Entropy in the Development of Economics
by Aleksander Jakimowicz
Entropy 2020, 22(4), 452; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22040452 - 16 Apr 2020
22 pages, 479 KiB  
Article
Large Deviations for Continuous Time Random Walks
by Wanli Wang, Eli Barkai and Stanislav Burov
Entropy 2020, 22(6), 697; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22060697 - 22 Jun 2020
8 pages, 7791 KiB  
Article
Thermodynamics at Very Long Time and Space Scales
by Bjarne Andresen and Christopher Essex
Entropy 2020, 22(10), 1090; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101090 - 28 Sep 2020
21 pages, 468 KiB  
Article
Geometric Optimisation of Quantum Thermodynamic Processes
by Paolo Abiuso, Harry J. D. Miller, Martí Perarnau-Llobet and Matteo Scandi
Entropy 2020, 22(10), 1076; https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101076 - 24 Sep 2020

Winner

20 pages, 333 KiB  
Review
Classical (Local and Contextual) Probability Model for Bohm–Bell Type Experiments: No-Signaling as Independence of Random Variables
by Andrei Khrennikov and Alexander Alodjants
Entropy 2019, 21(2), 157; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21020157 - 8 Feb 2019
15 pages, 2142 KiB  
Article
Nonlinear Information Bottleneck
by Artemy Kolchinsky, Brendan D. Tracey and David H. Wolpert
Entropy 2019, 21(12), 1181; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21121181 - 30 Nov 2019
27 pages, 336 KiB  
Article
Dynamic Maximum Entropy Reduction
by Václav Klika, Michal Pavelka, Petr Vágner and Miroslav Grmela
Entropy 2019, 21(7), 715; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21070715 - 22 Jul 2019
38 pages, 4465 KiB  
Article
Topological Information Data Analysis
by Pierre Baudot, Monica Tapia, Daniel Bennequin and Jean-Marc Goaillard
Entropy 2019, 21(9), 869; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21090869 - 6 Sep 2019

Award Committee

Dr. Kevin Knuth Chairman
(Home Address)

Winner

23 pages, 5735 KiB  
Review
Levitated Nanoparticles for Microscopic Thermodynamics—A Review
by Jan Gieseler and James Millen
Entropy 2018, 20(5), 326; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20050326 - 28 Apr 2018
23 pages, 1755 KiB  
Article
Transductive Feature Selection Using Clustering-Based Sample Entropy for Temperature Prediction in Weather Forecasting
by Zahra Karevan and Johan A. K. Suykens
Entropy 2018, 20(4), 264; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20040264 - 10 Apr 2018
36 pages, 529 KiB  
Article
Pointwise Partial Information Decomposition Using the Specificity and Ambiguity Lattices
by Conor Finn and Joseph T. Lizier
Entropy 2018, 20(4), 297; https://doi.org/10.3390/e20040297 - 18 Apr 2018

Winner

1509 KiB  
Article
Critical Behavior in Physics and Probabilistic Formal Languages
by Henry W. Lin and Max Tegmark
Entropy 2017, 19(7), 299; https://doi.org/10.3390/e19070299 - 23 Jun 2017
1829 KiB  
Article
Multiscale Information Decomposition: Exact Computation for Multivariate Gaussian Processes
by Luca Faes, Daniele Marinazzo and Sebastiano Stramaglia
Entropy 2017, 19(8), 408; https://doi.org/10.3390/e19080408 - 8 Aug 2017
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