Entropy

edited by Jalal Etesami and

submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 809 | Submission Open

Keywords: causal discovery; causal effect estimation and counterfactual inference; causal representation learning; high-dimensional causal inference; fairness; transparency; and explainability in AI; time-series and dynamic causal inference; statistical aspects of causal inference; sensitivity analysis and robustness in causal models; foundational theories of causal inference; applications in healthcare; economics; and AI; information theoretic approaches; Granger causality; transfer entropy

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

Lie Group Machine Learning

edited by

Fanzhang Li

and Li Liu

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3841 | Submission Open

Keywords: Lie group algebraic learning; Lie group geometric learning; Lie group cover learning; Lie group meta learning; Lie group continual learning; Lie group reinforcement learning; Lie group neural network learning; Lie group Bayesian learning; symplectic group learning; quantum group learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Information and Quantum Computation

edited by Zhian Jia and Dagomir Kaszlikowski

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2665 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundations; quantum games; generalized probabilistic theory; quantum computation; quantum algorithm; quantum simulation; quantum metrology; quantum entanglement; steering; and nonlocality; quantum contextuality; topological quantum information; quantum error correction; quantum memory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Spreading Dynamics in Complex Networks

edited by

Lazaros Gallos

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11760 | Submission Open

Keywords: epidemic spreading; network science; network dynamics; information spreading; social network analysis; computational modeling; infectious disease modeling; percolation theory; machine learning in complex networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

The First Half Century of Finite-Time Thermodynamics

edited by

Bjarne Andresen

and

Peter Salamon

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 10637 | Submission Open

Keywords: finite-time thermodynamics; thermodynamic geometry; control thermodynamics; optimization; thermodynamic bounds; optimal control modeling; efficiency; wide range of applicability of the concepts in chemistry; physics; quantum; engineering; economics; biology; etc.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Network Information Theory and Its Applications

edited by

Yanlin Geng

, Youlong Wu and Ling Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7458 | Submission Open

Keywords: network information theory; capacity region; Gaussian noise; information inequality; distributed system; federated learning; channel coding; source coding; randomness generation; integrated sensing and communication; coded caching and computing; communication for computing; network coding

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

From Order to Disorder: Superfluidity, Stochastic Processes, and the Dynamics of Life—Dedicated to Professor Peter McClintock on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday

edited by Aneta Stefanovska, Philip C.E. Stamp,

Mark Dykman

,

Laszlo B. Kish

and Ladislav Skrbek

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6818 | Submission Open

Keywords: superfluid vortices and turbulence; quantum and classical fluctuations; wave turbulence; vortex nucleation and effective mass; 2D superfluids and Kosterlitz– Thouless physics; dissipation in quantum systems; rare events in stochastic processes; quantum turbulence and cavitation; entropy production in nonequilibrium systems; deterministic and stochastic dynamics; biological dynamics and multiscale interactions; interactions and couplings in dynamical systems; biological and artificial ion channels; physics of life; biological oscillators; stochastic resonance; vibrational resonance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Advances in Modern Channel Coding

edited by Yongpeng Wu and Peihong Yuan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6002 | Submission Open

Keywords: LDPC codes; turbo codes; polar coding; probabilistic shaping; coded modulation

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

An Information-Theoretic Approach to Side-Channel Analysis

edited by

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,

and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5980 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; side-channel analysis; attacks; bounds; countermeasures

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

Kinetic Models of Chemical Reactions

edited by

Gregory Yablonsky

and

Alexander N. Gorban

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3455 | 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)

Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems

edited by Ting Yu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3067 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-Markovian open quantum systems; non-Markovian dynamics; non-Markovian quantum transport; environmental memory effect; quantum control; quantum technology; quantum devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy Machine Learning

edited by Sanghamitra Dutta and

Syed A. Jafar

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2027 | Submission Open

Keywords: fairness; explainability; reliability; privacy; security; robustness

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

Probability Theory and Quantum Information

edited by Bin Yan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1792 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information; probability theory; quantum probabilities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Failure Diagnosis of Complex Systems

edited by

Tao Wang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1454 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; entropy; deep learning; nonlinear dynamics; fault detection; fault diagnosis; fault pattern recognition

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

Entropy-Based Time Series Analysis: Theory and Applications

edited by

Felipe Olivares

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1452 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural entropies; dynamical entropies; multiscale entropy; ordinal patterns-based entropies; entropy as a complexity measure; signal classification; signal segmentation and spike detection; multivariate time series analysis; real-world and socio-technical applications; interdisciplinary applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Recent Advances in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

edited by

Xueqin Jiang

and

Peng Huang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1362 | Submission Open

Keywords: information security; quantum communication; continuous-variable quantum key distribution; post processing; information reconciliation; error correcting codes; privacy amplification; secret key rate

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Coarse and Fine-Grained Aspects of Gravitational Entropy

edited by Juan F. Pedraza, Andrew Svesko and Manus R. Visser

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1286 | Submission Open

Keywords: gravitational entropy; black hole thermodynamics; entanglement entropy; entropy in holography

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

Rethinking Representation Learning in the Age of Large Models

edited by

Yuhang Liu

,

Xinyu Zhang

and Qingsen Yan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 991 | Submission Open

Keywords: large language models; multi-modal models; generative AI; representation learning; causality; entropy; visual perception; efficient AI training; interpretable AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Covariance, Multiverse, and Stochastic Effects in Classical Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Gravity

edited by

Massimo Tessarotto

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 979 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum mechanics; quantum gravity; quantum effective minimum length

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Systems

edited by

Alina Cristiana Gavriluţ

and

Maricel Agop

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 941 | Submission Open

Keywords: deterministic chaos; bifurcations; strange attractors; scale relativity theory; multifractality; non-linear behavior

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale

edited by Jan Mol

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 873 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum thermodynamics; thermal nanoelectronic devices; direct entropy measurements; quantum heat engines

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Statistical Inference: Theory and Methods

edited by

Michel Broniatowski

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 534 | Submission Open

Keywords: variational inference; conditional inference; Bayesian inference; divergence-based inference; misspecification; robustness; machine learning; outlier detection; extreme values; semi-parametric models; depth estimators; discrete and categorized data

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

Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Processes of Complex Reaction Networks

edited by Schuyler B. Nicholson and

Eun-jin Kim

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 267 | Submission Open

Keywords: stochastic thermodynamics; complex reaction networks; statistical mechanics; stochastic processes; tensor networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Entropy, Econophysics, and Complexity

edited by Alejandro Raúl Hernández-Montoya, Thomas Seligman,

J.E. Trinidad-Segovia

and Manan Vyas

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14489 | Submission Open

Keywords: stylized facts; econophysics; sociophysics; entropy; financial markets; wealth distribution; inequality; financial crisis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Ising Model—100 Years Old and Still Attractive

edited by

Adam Lipowski

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2769 | Submission Open

Keywords: spin models; statistical mechanics; Monte Carlo simulations; phase transitions; sociophysics; econophysics; artificial intelligence; machine learning; inference; computational biology; neuroscience; optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Information and Coding Theory for Distributed Learning, Storage, Scheduling, and Security

edited by Chi Wan Sung and

Kenneth Shum

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 727 | Submission Open

Keywords: coded computing; coded caching; coded federated learning; distributed machine learning; distributed storage systems; coding for insertion/deletion/edit channel; protocol sequence; secret sharing; secure multiparty computation

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

Goal-Oriented Communication: Freshness, Semantics, and Beyond

edited by Xingran Chen and Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

submission deadline 14 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1673 | Submission Open

Keywords: goal-oriented communications; age of information; semantics of information; estimation; distributed learning; IoT; 6G

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

Quantum and Classical Processes in Living Systems

edited by

Alessandro Sergi

and

Antonino Messina

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 11182 | Submission Open

Keywords: living systems; biological physics; life thermodynamics; complex systems biology; quantum biology; classical physics; quantum-classical dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Robustness and Resilience of Complex Networks

edited by Daniele Proverbio and Stefano Boccaletti

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8613 | Submission Open

Keywords: networks; robustness; resilience; complex systems; systems biology; engineering; control theory; ecology; management science; information theory; bifurcations; non-equilibrium; early warning signals; tipping points; monotone systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Statistical Physics Approaches for Modeling Human Social Systems

edited by

Chaoming Song

and

Jianxi Gao

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6483 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex systems; statistical mechanics; social systems; social networks; human dynamics; agent-based modeling; data-driven modeling; human mobility patterns; innovation diffusion; socioeconomic systems; dynamics on/of networks; political polarization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Deciphering the Link Between Information and Interpretability in Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence

edited by Michael L. Mayo and Kevin R. Pilkiewicz

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5407 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; neural networks; interpretability; statistical analysis; information theory; feature analysis; object detection/tracking; generative artificial intelligence

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

Entanglement in Quantum Spin Systems

edited by

Leonardo dos Santos Lima

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5082 | 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)

Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Many-Body Systems

edited by Ruizhe Shen and Ching Hua Lee

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 652 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum phase transitions; quantum criticality; quantum simulation; tensor networks; strongly correlated systems; topological order; non-equilibrium dynamics; cold-atom systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Dynamics in Biological and Social Networks

edited by Luiz Henrique Alves Monteiro

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9598 | Submission Open

Keywords: agent-based model; cellular automata; complex network; dynamical systems; entropy measures; game theory; social media; social network; systems biology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Number Theoretic Methods in Statistics: Theory and Applications

edited by

Kai-Tai Fang

and Yongdao Zhou

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 8603 | Submission Open

Keywords: number– theoretic methods; quasi-Monte methods; experimental design; representative points; statistical inference; data science

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

Entropy-Centric Intelligent Computation with Graph: In Pursuit of Advanced Computational Theories, Methods, and Applications

edited by

Yongpan Sheng

,

Hao Wang

, Junyang Chen and

Chunwei Tian

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6973 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy-centric intelligent computation with graph; entropy-centric intelligent computation theories; entropy-centric graph/network representation learning; entropy-centric graph applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Entropy in Classical and Quantum Information Theory with Applications

edited by

Dominik Szczęśniak

and

Sabre Kais

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6198 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases

edited by Sayak Ray and

Lamberto Rondoni

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2887 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-equilibrium dynamics; driven-dissipative systems; ergodicity and thermalization; many-body localization; periodically driven systems; Kibble– Zurek dynamics; many-body quantum scar; non-Hermitian systems; exceptional point; quantum chaos and random matrix theory (RMT)

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

Continuous Variables for Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Random Number Generators

edited by

Matteo Schiavon

,

Marco Avesani

and

Cosmo Lupo

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2551 | 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)

Quantum Resource Theories: From Entanglement to Time Correlations and Measurement-Induced Noise

edited by

Lewis Clark

and

Almut Beige

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2184 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum correlations; quantum Markov processes; quantum finite-state machines; quantum bounds; causality; complexity; hypothesis testing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information-Theoretic Methods in Computational Neuroscience

edited by

Sarah Marzen

, John Beggs,

Martina Lamberti

and Jared Salisbury

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 594 | Submission Open

Keywords: maximum entropy models; information theory; criticality in neural systems; information-theoretic quantities; Information-theoretic normative theories

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

Complexity and Evolution, 2nd Edition

edited by Francis Heylighen and

Tomas Veloz

submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10992 | Submission Open

Keywords: biological evolution; cognitive evolution; social evolution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Insight into Entropy

edited by

Philip Broadbridge

and

Tony C. Scott

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7368 | Submission Open

Keywords: Everett– Hirschman entropy; Von Neumann entropy; Shannon entropy; Ré nyi entropy; Tsallis entropy; quantum theory; nonlinear optics; logarithmic Schrö dinger equation; superfluids; superconductors; emergent gravity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Computational and Statistical Physics Approaches for Complex Systems and Social Phenomena, 3rd Edition

edited by

Hung T. Diep

,

Miron Kaufman

and

Sanda Kaufman

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6872 | Submission Open

Keywords: social phenomena; complex systems; Monte Carlo simulations; statistical physics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Application of Information Theory to Computer Vision and Image Processing, 3rd Edition

edited by

Jesús Elías Miranda-Vega

,

Wendy Flores-Fuentes

,

Julio Cesar Rodríguez-Quiñonez

and

Oleg Sergiyenko

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5672 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; entropy and coding theory (data compression; watermark; minimizing data loss; visual information in a more compact form; transmission; storage); computer vision (identify relevant features and patterns); machine vision (data analysis and understanding; segmentation; registration; denoising and restoration; object recognition; classification and tracking); cyber-physical systems; instrumentation; signal and image processing; measurements (3D spatial coordinates; redundancy; statistical properties); artificial intelligence; applications (navigation; surveillance; facial recognition; medicine; robotics; entertainment; and more)

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

Coding Theory and Its Applications

edited by Yauhen Yakimenka and

Eirik Rosnes

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3341 | Submission Open

Keywords: coding theory; error-correcting codes; network coding; quantum codes; distributed storage; LDPC codes; polar codes; machine learning in coding; data compression

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

Information-Theoretic Methods in Data Analytics, 2nd Edition

edited by

Kichun Lee

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1515 | Submission Open

Keywords: information; probability; divergence; statistical inference; data compression; data visualization; community detection; outlier detection; feature selection; data mining; machine learning; pattern recognition; neural networks; applications of data analysis

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

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) in 6G

edited by Danaisy Prado-Alvarez and

Jose F. Monserrat

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1491 | Submission Open

Keywords: ISAC (integrated sensing and communication); trade-offs; channel models; sensing and communication; vehicular communications; industrial applications; resource optimization

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

Decision Optimization in Information Theory and Game Theory, 2nd Edition

edited by

Marek Szopa

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1409 | Submission Open

Keywords: decision optimization; game theory; quantum game theory; negotiation; machine learning; deep learning; Pareto optimization

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

Advances in Information Theory and Machine Learning for Computational Imaging

edited by Shirin Jalali

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1267 | Submission Open

Keywords: computational imaging; inverse problems; deep learning for imaging; information theory in imaging; model-based deep learning; deep unfolding; phase retrieval; coherent imaging; physics-informed machine learning; optimization in imaging; statistical imaging methods

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

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