Entropy

Delay-Doppler Domain Communications for Future Wireless Networks

edited by

Shuangyang Li

,

Zhiqiang Wei

, Weijie Yuan and

Baoming Bai

submission deadline 20 Apr 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7058

Keywords: delay-Doppler; orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS); wireless communications; waveform design; performance analysis; channel modeling; MIMO technology; channel coding; transceiver designs

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

Synergy and Redundancy Measures: Theory and Applications to Characterize Complex Systems and Shape Neural Network Representations

edited by

Daniel Chicharro

submission deadline 20 Apr 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4309

Keywords: mutual information; synergy; redundancy; unique information; neural networks; disentanglement; feature extraction; representation learning; partial information decomposition

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

Information Theory in Multi-Agent Systems: Methods and Applications

edited by

Haobin Shi

submission deadline 20 Apr 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3122

Keywords: multi-agent reinforcement learning; unsupervised reinforcement learning; information theory; information decomposition; variational approximation; latent representation; maximize mutual information; causal reinforcement learning; entropy estimator; contrastive-like unsupervised learning; latent-conditioned policy; uncertainty estimation; entropy-like intrinsic reward; meta-reinforcement learning training; state entropy; multi-agent datasets with complex interactions and relations; multi-agent motion planning and decision making

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

Women’s Special Issue Series: Entropy

edited by

Eun-jin Kim

and

Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

submission deadline 20 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2238

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Information Theory in Control Systems II

edited by

Adrian-Mihail Stoica

submission deadline 20 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1070

Keywords: multiagent systems; optimal control; optimal estimation and filtering; communication channel constraints; decentralized control

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

Self-Learning in Physical Machines

edited by Menachem Stern

submission deadline 20 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 161

Keywords: self-learning; learning machines; physical learning; inverse design; neuromorphic computing; biologically plausible learning; smart matter; functional matter; novel computation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Intelligent Modeling and Control

edited by

Tao Zhao

submission deadline 23 Apr 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4350 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum and Classical Physical Cryptography

edited by

Hua-Lei Yin

,

Kaizhi Huang

and Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 12 articles | Viewed by 12400 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum key distribution; quantum random number generation; chaotic key distribution; wireless physical layer key distribution; chaotic private communication; post-quantum cryptography; quantum conference key agreement; quantum noise stream cipher; quantum-enhanced cryptography; quantum secret sharing; quantum digital signatures; semi-quantum key distribution; quantum secure direct communication; quantum fingerprinting; quantum consensus; quantum bit commitment

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

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

edited by

Edward Bormashenko

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6785 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Particle Theory and Theoretical Cosmology—Dedicated to Professor Paul Howard Frampton on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

edited by Thomas W. Kephart and

Paul Howard Frampton

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2599 | Submission Open

Keywords: particle theory; gauge anomalies; particle phenomenology; BSM models; 331 model; string phenomenology; astro-particle physics; dark matter; dark energy; black hole entropy; early universe thermodynamics and cosmology

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

Heat Transfer in Thermoelectric Modules

edited by

Mona Zebarjadi

,

Sepideh Akhbarifar

and Md Golam Rosul

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2106 | Submission Open

Keywords: heat transfer; thermoelectric materials; thermoelectric devices; thermal conductivity; heat management; cooling and refrigeration; power generation; magneto-thermoelectric

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Random Walks and Stochastic Processes in Complex Systems: From Physics to Socio-Economic Phenomena

edited by

Trifce Sandev

and

Alexander Iomin

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1908 | Submission Open

Keywords: random walks; stochastic equations; kinetic equations; diffusion; geometric Brownian motion; voter model; econophysics; sociophysics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Chaos and Complexity in Fractional Order Systems and Their Applications

edited by

Wafaa Sayed

and

Lobna A. Said

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1577 | Submission Open

Keywords: chaos theory; control; encryption; fractional calculus; modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Quantum Walks for Quantum Technologies

edited by

Luca Razzoli

and

Paolo Bordone

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1503 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum walks; multiparticle quantum walks; quantum algorithms; quantum estimation; quantum cryptography; quantum networks; quantum transport; quantum information; quantum optics; entanglement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Computational Thermodynamics and Its Applications

edited by

Klaus Hack

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 351 | Submission Open

Keywords: computational thermodynamics; Gibbs-energy models; complex equilibrium calculations; multi-component phase diagrams; advanced process modelling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Information Security and Privacy: From IoT to IoV II

edited by

Bill William Buchanan

,

Arslan Munir

and

Jawad Ahmad

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 242 | Submission Open

Keywords: cryptography; blockchain; hardware-based security; artificial intelligence; computer vision; chaos; image encryption; cyber threat intelligence; information theory; entropy

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

An Information-Theoretical Perspective on Complex Dynamical Systems

edited by Di Qi and

José F. F. Mendes

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 164 | 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)

Entropy Application in Biomechanics and Biosignal Processing

edited by

Marcus Fraga Vieira

submission deadline 30 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 130 | Submission Open

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

Entropy and Nonlinear Signal Processing in Cardiovascular Applications

edited by

José J. Rieta

and

Adrian Luca

submission deadline 1 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2636 | 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)

Recent Advances in the Theory of Disordered Systems

edited by

Aimin Guo

and

Qiao Chen

submission deadline 1 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1437 | 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)

Quasi-Probability and Probability Representations of Quantum States—100 Years of Quantum Mechanics

edited by

Vladimir I. Manko

submission deadline 1 May 2024 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information-Theoretic Methods in Deep Learning: Theory and Applications

edited by

Shuangming Yang

,

Shujian Yu

,

Luis Gonzalo Sánchez Giraldo

and

Badong Chen

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 12618 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theoretic learning; information bottleneck; deep learning; neural networks

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

Information Theory for Interpretable Machine Learning

edited by

Marco Piangerelli

and

Sotiris Kotsiantis

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8194 | Submission Open

Keywords: interpretable machine learning; information disentanglement; information theory; reinforcement learning; supervised learning; unsupervised learning

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

Physical-Layer Security, Quantum Key Distribution and Post-quantum Cryptography II

edited by

Ivan B. Djordjevic

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5596 | Submission Open

Keywords: physical-layer security; quantum key distribution (QKD); continuous variable QKD; discrete variable QKD; measurement device independent QKD; post-quantum cryptography; quantum enhanced cryptography; stealth communication; covert communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information Security and Data Privacy

edited by Mina Sheikhalishahi

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4382 | 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)

Integrated Information Theory and Consciousness II

edited by

Kyumin Moon

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4237 | Submission Open

Keywords: consciousness; information; causation; phenomenology; emergence; neural correlates of consciousness; qualia; defining phi; computing integrated information; animal consciousness; artificial consciousness; mathematics and consciousness

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

Information Theory and Nonlinear Signal Processing

edited by

Yong Lv

,

Weihang Zhu

and

Rui Yuan

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2656 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; fault diagnosis; fault detection/prognostics; damage tracking; anomaly detection; structural health monitoring; structural dynamics; modal analysis; machine/deep learning; biomedical signal processing

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

Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Statistical Theory in Plasmas Physics

edited by

Eun-jin Kim

and

Geert Verdoolaege

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1282 | Submission Open

Keywords: plasmas; nuclear fusion; plasma turbulence; plasma transport; plasma physics; plasma simulations; plasma experiments; non-extensive statistical mechanics; anomalous transport; q-entropy; information theory; nonequilibrium statistics; Kullback-Leibler divergence; information length; differential geometry; self-organisation; fractional calculus; solar flares; stellar flares; transfer entropy; probability distribution; probability theory; extreme principle; entropy production; avalanches; machine learning; Bayesian statistics; continuum mechanics; information geometry; intermittency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Structural Relaxation in Glass Transition and Crystallization Thermodynamics

edited by

Jürn W.P. Schmelzer

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1129 | Submission Open

Keywords: crystal nucleation; crystal growth; general theory of phase transition; prediction of properties of glass-forming melts; glass and glass transition; thermodynamics of nucleation and growth; surface thermodynamics; description of relaxation in deeply undercooled liquids and glasses; interplay of elastic stress evolution and relaxation on crystallization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Ordinal Pattern-Based Entropies: New Ideas and Challenges

edited by Meryem Jabloun

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 548 | Submission Open

Keywords: permutation entropy; multiscale permutation entropy and its variants; Tsallis permutation entropy; ordinal pattern-based complexity measure of time series; real data application; multidimensional time series; encrypted data; theoretical understanding for appropriate application; ordinal pattern based-entropy in machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

New Advances in Error-Correcting Codes

edited by Robert H. Morelos-Zaragoza and

T. Aaron Gulliver

submission deadline 15 May 2024 | Viewed by 443 | 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)

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 16 May 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10301 | 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)

Progress in Quantum Key Distribution

edited by Shihai Sun and Bo Liu

submission deadline 19 May 2024 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum cryptography; post-quantum cryptography; quantum chip; quantum communication; quantum entanglement; quantum internet

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Application of Information Theory to Physical Modeling and State Awareness in Complex Systems

edited by

Zhanlong Zhang

and Yihua Dan

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9884 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; information theory; signal processing; state perception; electromagnetic parameter measurement; deep learning and machine learning; fault modeling and evolution analysis; fault diagnosis; digital twins; big data analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Signal Processing for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Electric Machines and Energy Conversion Systems

edited by

Epaminondas D. Mitronikas

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6006 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy conversion systems; electric machines; power electronic converters; signal processing; fault detection; fault diagnosis; fault-tolerant systems; machine learning and systems theory; artificial intelligence

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

Image Encryption and Privacy Protection Based on Chaotic Systems—Second Edition

edited by

Congxu Zhu

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1823 | Submission Open

Keywords: chaos; chaotic system; complexity analysis; information theory; entropy analysis and calculation; image encryption algorithms; privacy protection schemes; complex network and artificial intelligence technology

Entropy and Information in Biological Systems

edited by

Richard Summers

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 964 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; information theory; entropy dynamics; biological systems; theoretical biology

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

Probabilistic Models for Dynamical Systems

edited by

Carlos Dias Maciel

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 202 | 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)

Universality Classes of Synchronization Phase Transitions

edited by

Géza Ódor

and Shengfeng Deng

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Exploring the Horizon of Practical Utility in Near-Term Quantum Computing

edited by Daiwei Zhu, Jason Iaconis and Torin F. Stetina

submission deadline 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 172 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum error mitigation; quantum machine learning; near-term quantum computers; quantum algorithms; variational algorithms; heuristic algorithms; practical quantum advantages; quantum-inspired algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Thermodynamic Evaluation and Optimization of Combustion Processes

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 23 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1422 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Time and Temporal Asymmetries

edited by

Olimpia Lombardi

and

Cristian López

submission deadline 26 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2283 | Submission Open

Keywords: direction of time; time-reversal invariance; irreversibility; entropy; quantum gravity; general relativity; thermodynamics; statistical mechanics; metaphysics of time; substantivalism vs. relationalism; topology of time; presentism; eternalism and block universe; time travel

(This special issue belongs to the Section Time)

Bayesian Inference and Mathematical Modeling in Complex Biological Systems

edited by Morten Mørup

submission deadline 27 May 2024 | Viewed by 453 | Submission Open

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

Bayesian Learning and Its Applications in Genomics

edited by

Cen Wu

submission deadline 27 May 2024 | Viewed by 375 | 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)

Deep Generative Modeling: Theory and Applications

edited by

Jakub Tomczak

submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10701 | Submission Open

Keywords: variational auto-encoders; diffusion-based generative models; flow-based generative models; autoregressive generative models; energy-based models; hybrid modeling; neural compression; AI4Science; life sciences; molecular sciences

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Information Geometry for Data Analysis

edited by

Stéphane Puechmorel

and

Florence Nicol

submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5993 | Submission Open

Keywords: fisher metric; dualistic structure; manifold learning; data manifold; statistical manifold; statistical model; persistent homology

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

Entropy, Statistical Evidence, and Scientific Inference: Evidence Functions in Theory and Applications

edited by

Brian Dennis

,

Mark L. Taper

and

Jose Miguel Ponciano

submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4676 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; evidential statistics; evidence; hypothesis testing; information theory; Kullback– Leibler discrepancy; model misspecification; model selection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Stochastic Models and Statistical Inference: Analysis and Applications

edited by

Yousri Slaoui

and Solym Manou-Abi

submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4346 | Submission Open

Keywords: stochastic model; parameter estimation; data analysis; stochastic algorithms; simulation

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

Entropy-Based Statistics and Their Applications

edited by Zhiyi Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2387 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropic probability and statistics; entropy indices; diversity indices; decision tree classifiers; confidence levels of classifiers; machine learning; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Modern Trends in Multi-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer

edited by

Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi

and

Muhammad Mubashir Bhatti

submission deadline 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 507 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; fluid flow towards a porous media; heat and mass transfer; nanofluids; computational simulations of multi-phase flows; thermal transferring in nanostructures; thermal measurement technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

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