Skip to Content

Entropy, Volume 17, Issue 9

2015 September - 35 articles

  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (35)

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
6,714 Views
15 Pages

23 September 2015

In this paper, a new analytic iterative technique, called the residual power series method (RPSM), is applied to time fractional Whitham–Broer–Kaup equations. The explicit approximate traveling solutions are obtained by using this method. The efficie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex and Fractional Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,074 Views
16 Pages

Thermodynamic Metrics and Black Hole Physics

  • Jan E. Åman,
  • Ingemar Bengtsson and
  • Narit Pidokrajt

22 September 2015

We give a brief survey of thermodynamic metrics, in particular the Hessian of the entropy function, and how they apply to black hole thermodynamics. We then provide a detailed discussion of the Gibbs surface of Kerr black holes. In particular, we ana...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometry in Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
103 Citations
9,181 Views
15 Pages

21 September 2015

This paper presents a rolling bearing fault diagnosis approach by integrating wavelet packet decomposition (WPD) with multi-scale permutation entropy (MPE). The approach uses MPE values of the sub-frequency band signals to identify faults appearing i...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,774 Views
19 Pages

21 September 2015

We study the asymptotically-achievable rate region of subspace codes for wireless network coding, where receivers have different link capacities due to the access ways or the faults of the intermediate links in the network. Firstly, an outer bound of...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6,040 Views
22 Pages

21 September 2015

In the application of discriminant analysis, a situation sometimes arises where individual measurements are screened by a multidimensional screening scheme. For this situation, a discriminant analysis with screened populations is considered from a Ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inductive Statistical Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
10,626 Views
21 Pages

18 September 2015

In this work, energy and exergy analyses are carried out for a combined cycle consisting of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) Rankine cycle for the recovery of low-grade heat sources and LNG cold energy. The effects of...

(This article belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,814 Views
14 Pages

18 September 2015

Several methods exist to construct complex networks from time series. In general, these methods claim to construct complex networks that preserve certain properties of the underlying dynamical system, and hence, they mark new ways of accessing quanti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Chaos Theory and Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,481 Views
15 Pages

17 September 2015

A novel method of quantifying the effectiveness of the suppression of ventricular activity from electrocardiograms (ECGs) in atrial fibrillation is proposed. The temporal distribution of the energy of wavelet coefficients is quantified by wavelet ent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wavelet Entropy: Computation and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,113 Views
18 Pages

16 September 2015

Process monitoring is an important research problem in numerous areas. This paper proposes a novel process monitoring scheme by integrating the recurrence plot (RP) method and the control chart technique. Recently, the RP method has emerged as an eff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theoretic Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,376 Views
50 Pages

15 September 2015

We examine the Boltzmann/Gibbs/Shannon SBGS and the non-additive Havrda-Charvát/Daróczy/Cressie-Read/Tsallis Sq and the Kaniadakis κ-entropy Sκ from the viewpoint of coarse-graining, symplectic capacities and convexity. We argue that the functional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometry in Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,068 Views
11 Pages

14 September 2015

We show explicitly, by using astrophysical data plus reasonable assumptions for the bulk viscosity in the cosmic fluid, how the magnitude of this viscosity may be high enough to drive the fluid from its position in the quintessence region at present...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
10,090 Views
19 Pages

10 September 2015

Entropy provides a valuable tool for quantifying the regularity of physiological time series and provides important insights for understanding the underlying mechanisms of the cardiovascular system. Before any entropy calculation, certain common para...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Information Theory Application to Physiological Signals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
164 Citations
44,118 Views
15 Pages

Modeling of a Mass-Spring-Damper System by Fractional Derivatives with and without a Singular Kernel

  • José Francisco Gómez-Aguilar,
  • Huitzilin Yépez-Martínez,
  • Celia Calderón-Ramón,
  • Ines Cruz-Orduña,
  • Ricardo Fabricio Escobar-Jiménez and
  • Victor Hugo Olivares-Peregrino

10 September 2015

In this paper, the fractional equations of the mass-spring-damper system with Caputo and Caputo–Fabrizio derivatives are presented. The physical units of the system are preserved by introducing an auxiliary parameter σ. The input of the resulting equ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex and Fractional Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,179 Views
14 Pages

10 September 2015

We describe how several metrics are possible in thermodynamic state space but that only one, Weinhold’s, has achieved widespread use. Lengths calculated based on this metric have been used to bound dissipation in finite-time (irreversible) processes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometry in Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,086 Views
12 Pages

9 September 2015

The asymptotic procedure proposed allows to derive closed hydrodynamical equations from the kinetic equations of carriers and phonons (treated as a partecipating species) in a photon background. The direct generation-recombination processes are accou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,164 Views
9 Pages

On the Exact Solution of Wave Equations on Cantor Sets

  • Dumitru Baleanu,
  • Hasib Khan,
  • Hossien Jafari and
  • Rahmat Ali Khan

8 September 2015

The transfer of heat due to the emission of electromagnetic waves is called thermal radiations. In local fractional calculus, there are numerous contributions of scientists, like Mandelbrot, who described fractal geometry and its wide range of applic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wavelets, Fractals and Information Theory I)
  • Correction
  • Open Access
4,206 Views
1 Page

8 September 2015

The authors wish to make the following correction to their paper [1]. The correct reference 190 in the reference list should be: [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,569 Views
19 Pages

8 September 2015

Network anomaly detection and classification is an important open issue in network security. Several approaches and systems based on different mathematical tools have been studied and developed, among them, the Anomaly-Network Intrusion Detection Sys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 1st International Electronic Conference on Entropy and its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
11,029 Views
21 Pages

7 September 2015

This work introduces for the first time the application of wavelet entropy (WE) to detect episodes of the most common cardiac arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation (AF), automatically from the electrocardiogram (ECG). Given that AF is often asymptomatic an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wavelet Entropy: Computation and Applications)
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,666 Views
13 Pages

7 September 2015

The ~1.5 × 10−20 J which is considered a universal quantity and is associated with the movement of protons in water also relates to the ratio of the magnetic moment of a proton divided by its unit charge, multiplied by viscosity and applied over the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
6,091 Views
16 Pages

7 September 2015

In this paper we investigate statistical manifolds with almost quaternionic structures. We define the concept of quaternionic Kähler-like statistical manifold and derive the main properties of quaternionic Kähler-like statistical submersions, extendi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,396 Views
10 Pages

3 September 2015

It is shown that lattice kinetic theory based on short-lived quasiparticles proves very effective in simulating the complex dynamics of strongly interacting fluids (SIF). In particular, it is pointed out that the shear viscosity of lattice fluids is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-Linear Lattice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,164 Views
19 Pages

Conformal Gauge Transformations in Thermodynamics

  • Alessandro Bravetti,
  • Cesar S Lopez-Monsalvo and
  • Francisco Nettel

2 September 2015

In this work, we show that the thermodynamic phase space is naturally endowed with a non-integrable connection, defined by all of those processes that annihilate the Gibbs one-form, i.e., reversible processes. We argue that such a connection is invar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometry in Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
10,389 Views
17 Pages

1 September 2015

The selection of an appropriate wavelet is an essential issue that should be addressed in the wavelet-based filtering of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. Since entropy can measure the features of uncertainty associated with the ECG signal, a novel co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wavelet Entropy: Computation and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,896 Views
19 Pages

Entropic Dynamics

  • Ariel Caticha

1 September 2015

Entropic Dynamics is a framework in which dynamical laws are derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. No underlying action principle is postulated. Instead, the dynamics is driven by entropy subject to the constraints appropriate t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical Equations and Causal Structures from Observations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,063 Views
21 Pages

1 September 2015

A six-dimensional nonlinear hydropower system controlled by a nonlinear predictive control method is presented in this paper. In terms of the nonlinear predictive control method; the performance index with terminal penalty function is selected. A sim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Information Theory in the Geosciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,817 Views
16 Pages

31 August 2015

We study the class of self-similar probability density functions with finite mean and variance, which maximize Rényi’s entropy. The investigation is restricted in the Schwartz space S(Rd) and in the space of l-differentiable compactly supported funct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computation and Information: Multi-Particle Aspects)
  • Review
  • Open Access
326 Citations
17,776 Views
21 Pages

31 August 2015

The ability to distribute secret keys between two parties with information-theoretic security, that is regardless of the capacities of a malevolent eavesdropper, is one of the most celebrated results in the field of quantum information processing and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,178 Views
12 Pages

The Effect of a Long-Range Correlated-Hopping Interaction on Bariev Spin Chains

  • Tao Yang,
  • Fa-Kai Wen,
  • Kun Hao,
  • Li-Ke Cao and
  • Rui-Hong Yue

28 August 2015

We introduce a long-range particle and spin interaction into the standard Bariev model and show that this interaction is equivalent to a phase shift in the kinetic term of the Hamiltonian. When the particles circle around the chain and across the bou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-Linear Lattice)
  • Letter
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,646 Views
12 Pages

Proportionate Minimum Error Entropy Algorithm for Sparse System Identification

  • Zongze Wu,
  • Siyuan Peng,
  • Badong Chen,
  • Haiquan Zhao and
  • Jose C. Principe

27 August 2015

Sparse system identification has received a great deal of attention due to its broad applicability. The proportionate normalized least mean square (PNLMS) algorithm, as a popular tool, achieves excellent performance for sparse system identification....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,806 Views
18 Pages

27 August 2015

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in learning a distributed representation of word sense. Traditional context clustering based models usually require careful tuning of model parameters, and typically perform worse on infrequent w...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,873 Views
19 Pages

27 August 2015

In this paper, exact solutions of the new Hamiltonian amplitude equation and Fokas-Lenells equation are successfully obtained. The extended trial equation method (ETEM) and generalized Kudryashov method (GKM) are applied to find several exact soluti...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,553 Views
15 Pages

26 August 2015

This current work studies the heat transfer performance and entropy generation of natural convection in a nanofluid-filled U-shaped cavity. The flow behavior and heat transfer performance in the cavity are governed using the continuity equation, mome...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,142 Views
27 Pages

25 August 2015

The time evolution of macroscopic systems can be experimentally observed and mathematically described on many different levels of description. It has been conjectured that the governing equations on all levels are particular realizations of a single...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometry in Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
8,134 Views
15 Pages

25 August 2015

During the measurement of friction force, the measured signal generally contains noise. To remove the noise and preserve the important features of the signal, a hybrid filtering method is introduced that uses the mutual information and a new waveform...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
XFacebookLinkedIn
Entropy - ISSN 1099-4300