Entropy

Classical and Quantum Networks: Theory, Modeling and Optimization, 2nd Edition

edited by

and

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 58 | Submission Open

Keywords: network dynamics; network topology; complex networks; percolation; quantum entanglement; quantum correlations; quantum interconnect; quantum walks; quantum key distribution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Mathematical Modeling for Ion Channels

edited by

Agata Wawrzkiewicz-Jałowiecka

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 51 | Submission Open

Keywords: ion channels; channel gating; patch clamp; statistical physics; applied mathematics; phenomenological models; Brownian dynamics; entropic potential; molecular dynamics; mechanism of selectivity; activation of gate-selectivity filter coupling; ion channel permeation mechanism; conformational dynamics; allosteric coupling; ionic currents through biological membranes; biomimetic channels; nanopores; rectification; time series analysis; information entropy; Shannon entropy; sample entropy; multiscale entropy; slope entropy; entropic effects of channel gating

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Emerging Chaos Generation Methods and Memory Elements in Cryptographic Systems: An Entropy and Information Theory Perspective

edited by

Suo Gao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy in chaos-based systems; information-theoretic security; memristors; meminductors; and memcapacitors in cryptography; high-entropy pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs); chaos-based secure communication; entropy optimization in nonlinear dynamical systems; machine learning for chaos and entropy evaluation; post-quantum cryptography using entropy-driven methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics in Astrophysics

edited by

Jiulin Du

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 38 | Submission Open

Keywords: plasma astrophysics with non-Maxwell distributions; astrophysical plasma and space plasma; planetary plasmas; transport theory in astrophysics; gravitational waves; self-gravitating systems; solar and stellar physics; galactic dynamics; dark matter; dark energy; cosmology

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

Editorial Board Members' Collection Series on Quantum Entanglement

edited by

Xiang-Bin Wang

,

Richard D. Gill

, Francesco De Martini,

,

,

,

and

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7093 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum entanglement; quantum key distribution; quantum communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum Mechanics and the Challenge of Time

edited by

Eli Pollak

and Randall S. Dumont

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4682 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Time)

The Statistical Physics of Generative Diffusion Models

edited by Luca Ambrogioni

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2729 | Submission Open

Keywords: generative diffusion models; generative models; statistical physics; equilibrium thermodynamics; symmetry breaking; phase transition; stochastic localization; Hopfield networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Information Theory in Emerging Machine Learning Techniques

edited by Ke Sun

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2343 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; information theory; information divergence; Riemannian geometry; Fisher information; information bottleneck; deep autoencoders; normalization in deep learning; deep neural network optimizers

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

Quantum Nonstationary Systems—Second Edition

edited by

Viktor Dodonov

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum nonstationary systems; quantum dissipative systems; quantum entanglement; dynamics of decoherence and thermalization; dynamical Casimir effect; time-dependent quantum systems; time-dependent phenomena; quantum speed limits; energy-time uncertainty relations; quantum heat engines

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information Theory and Data Compression

edited by Tsachy Weissman

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 140 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; data compression (lossless and lossy); compression complexity; source coding; coding theory; distortion; point clouds

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

Advances in Federated and Collaborative Learning with Applications for Generative AI

edited by Chee Wei Tan and Wenyi Zhang

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy and perplexity; model interpretation and representation learning; federated learning and collaborative learning; machine unlearning; in-context learning; distributed optimization; large language models; AI safety; data removal algorithms; AI-generated data detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Entropy Metrics for Interpretable Condition Monitoring in Complex Industrial Equipment

edited by

Tao Xie

,

Xiaojun Mei

and

Chaoge Wang

submission deadline 19 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 537 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy-based condition monitoring; interpretable feature extraction; fault diagnosis; rotating machinery; data-driven diagnostics; predictive maintenance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Next-Generation Channel Coding: Theory and Applications

edited by

Min Qiu

,

Xiaowei Wu

,

Peng Kang

and Jinhong Yuan

submission deadline 19 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

Keywords: LDPC codes; turbo codes; polar codes; coded modulations; spatially coupled codes; coding hardware architectures; learning-based coding schemes; rateless codes; joint source– channel coding

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

Information Spreading Dynamics in Complex Networks

edited by

Duanbing Chen

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 273 | Submission Open

Keywords: information spreading; complex networks; temporal networks; resilient and recoverable networks; simplicial complex; influential spreaders; phase transition; network attack and defense; collaborative evolution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Causal Inference in Statistics and AI

edited by Jalal Etesami and

Wray L. Buntine

submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 116 | 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)

Quantum Information and Quantum Computation

edited by Zhian Jia and Dagomir Kaszlikowski

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 136 | 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)

An Information-Theoretic Approach to Side-Channel Analysis

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4987 | 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 2486 | 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)

Network Information Theory and Its Applications

edited by

Yanlin Geng

, Youlong Wu and Ling Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2315 | 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)

Advances in Modern Channel Coding

edited by Yongpeng Wu and Peihong Yuan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2240 | 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)

Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems

edited by Ting Yu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1703 | 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 1160 | 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 | Viewed by 241 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information; probability theory; quantum probabilities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

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

edited by

Massimo Tessarotto

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 117 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

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 | Viewed by 107 | 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)

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 98 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Rethinking Representation Learning in the Age of Large Models

edited by

Yuhang Liu

,

Xinyu Zhang

and Qingsen Yan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 91 | 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)

Recent Advances in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

edited by

Xueqin Jiang

and

Peng Huang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 84 | 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)

Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Systems

edited by

Alina Cristiana Gavriluţ

and

Maricel Agop

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Entropy-Based Time Series Analysis: Theory and Applications

edited by

Felipe Olivares

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 54 | 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)

Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale

edited by Jan Mol

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 34 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Failure Diagnosis of Complex Systems

edited by

Tao Wang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 28 | 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)

Geometry in Thermodynamics, 4th Edition

edited by

Michael Parker

,

Chris Jeynes

, Stuart Walker and

Luisberis Velazquez

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 21 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermodynamic time; complex time; entropy production; dissipative processes and structures; conservation theorems; local and non-local constraints; thermodynamics of information; system complexity; Riemannian geometries; generalised fluctuation theorems; dynamics and thermodynamics of systems with long-range interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Statistical Inference: Theory and Methods

edited by

Michel Broniatowski

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 19 | 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)

Evolution of Community Complexity

edited by

Takashi Ikegami

, Hiroki Kojima and Michael Crosscombe

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 188 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex systems; collective intelligence; evolutionary ecology; community; collective dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

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

edited by Chi Wan Sung and

Kenneth Shum

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 93 | 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)

Number Theoretic Methods in Statistics: Theory and Applications

edited by

Kai-Tai Fang

and Yongdao Zhou

submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4565 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4400 | 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)

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 110 | 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)

Multiscale Entropy Approaches and Their Applications: Fourth Edition

edited by

Anne Humeau-Heurtier

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiscale entropy; approximate entropy; sample entropy; permutation entropy; fuzzy entropy; distribution entropy; dispersion entropy; ensemble entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Information Security

edited by Wei Yang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum computing; information security; cryptography; secure computation; attacks; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information Theory for Future Communication Systems

edited by Min Li,

Lawrence Ong

, Congduan Li and

Mingmin Zhao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; coding theory; information-theoretic security and privacy; integrated sensing and communication; future wireless systems; machine learning-driven wireless communications

(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 | Viewed by 67 | 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)

Application of Information Theory to Computer Vision and Image Processing III

edited by

Jesús Elías Miranda-Vega

,

Wendy Flores-Fuentes

,

Julio Cesar Rodríguez-Quiñonez

and

Oleg Sergiyenko

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 59 | 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)

Statistical Machine Learning with High-Dimensional Data and Image Analysis: Second Edition

edited by

Lei Wang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 58 | Submission Open

Keywords: statistical machine learning; high-dimensional data; image processing; data mining; pattern recognition; deep learning; big data; computer vision; multimedia

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

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

edited by

Marek Szopa

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 45 | 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)

Statistical and Physics-Based Interpretation of AI and Machine Learning Methods for Biomedical Data

edited by

Gastone C. Castellani

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open

Keywords: statistical interpretation of learning rules; diffusion processes in AI; complex networks; AI methods for biomedicine; integration of multi-omic data; AI for medical imaging; biophysics-inspired learning rules

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

Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Plasmas

edited by

Gianpiero Colonna

, Annarita Laricchiuta and

Elena Kustova

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 35 | Submission Open

Keywords: equilibrium plasma; non-equilibrium plasma; Chapman– Enskog method; multi-temperature models; state-to-state models; excited states

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Information-Theoretic Methods in Data Analytics, 2nd Edition

edited by

Kichun Lee

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 25 | 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)

Information Theory in Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Marco Piangerelli

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; artificial intelligence; entropy; machine learning; mutual information; anomaly detection; representation learning; predictive maintenance; statistical inference; explainable AI

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

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