Entropy - Editors

Editorial Office

Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Peter Harremoës *
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 20 592 42 44
Website: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ph/
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* Dr. Michel Petitjean served as the Editor-in-Chief during July 2003-June 2006

Assistant Editor
Ms. Tina Wang *
MDPI Beijing Office, Floor 4, Chelifen Village Committee Office Building, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 605 288 33; Fax: +86 10 605 247 74
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* To whom manuscript submission should be addressed

Assistant Editor
Mr. Dietrich Rordorf
MDPI Center, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 7734; Fax: +41 61 302 8918
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General Editorial Board

Dr. James Baker-Jarvis
National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, MS 818.01, Boulder, CO, USA
Tel. +1 303 497 5621
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Interests: dielectrics; electromagnetic properties of materials; maximum entropy methods; statistical mechanics; measurement of entropy

Prof. Dr. Jacob Bekenstein
Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904; Israel
Tel. +972 (0)2 658 4374; Fax: +972 (0)2 5611519
Website: http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~bekenste/
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Interests: gravitational theory; black hole physics; relativistic magnetohydrodynamics; galactic dynamics; physical aspects of information theory; physics of the vacuum

Prof. Dr. M. A. Bouchene
Laboratoire Collisions, Agregats , Reactivite, UMR 5589, Universite Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse, France
Tel. +33 5 61 55 60 02; Fax: +33 5 61 55 83 17
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Interests: optical sciences; atomic and molecular physics; coherent control
Contribution: Special Issue: Recent Advances in Entanglement and Quantum Information Theory

Prof. Dr. Søren Brier
Professor in the Semiotics of Information, Cognition and Communication Science, Department of International Culture and Communication Studies, CBS, Dalgas Have 15, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Tel. +45 38153132; Fax: +45 38153865
Website: http://www.brier.dk/SoerenBrier/index.htm
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Interests: Philosophy and theory of science and with special focus on the area of information, cognition and communication including cross-disciplinary research programs such as cybernetics, semiotics, concepts of knowledge and their utility for understanding and designing knowledge organizing. Creator of Cybersemiotic: an integration of Peircean biosemiotic, system theory, autopoiesis and cybernetic information theory. Partaker in the development of biosemiotics, sociocybernetics and Foundation of Information Science. Interest and publications in science communication, popularization and the interaction between science, religion and politics in the mass media.
Contribution: Special Issue: Cybersemiotics—Integration of the informational and semiotic paradigms of cognition and communication

Prof. Dr. Philip Broadbridge
Diretor, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, 111 Barry Street, c-/ The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Tel. +61 (0)3 8344 1779; Fax: +1 (0)3 9349 4106
Website: http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person130135.html
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Interests: Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications
Contribution: Special Issue: Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications - Papers presented at the Meeting at University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007

Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira
Department of Statistics, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, C.P. 66281, 05389-970 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Tel. +55 (0) 11 818 6101; Fax: +55 (0) 11 814 4135
Website: http://www.ime.usp.br/~cpereira
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Interests: bayesian inference; foundations of statistics; significance; evidence; bayesian analysis of discrete data (BADD)

Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Dincer
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology (UOIT), 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K4, Canada
Tel. +1 905 721 8668 ext: 2573, Cell: 905 441 2229; Fax: +1 905 721 3370
Website: http://www.engineering.uoit.ca/people/dincer.php
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Interests: hydrogen and fuel cell systems; renewable energies; energy and exergy; energy conversion and management; heat and mass transfer; thermodynamics; drying; refrigeration; thermal energy storage
Contribution: Special Issue: Entropy Generation in Thermal Systems and Processes

Dr. Laurance R. Doyle
Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, California, 94043, USA
Tel. +1 650 960 4533
Website: http://www.seti.org/
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Interests: photometric techniques for detecting extrasolar planets; information theory applied to animal communications; astro-ecology and remote detection of exobiological systems; quantum astronomy and cosmic-scale quantum measurement problems
Contribution: Special Issue: Information Theory Applied to Animal Communication

Dr. Ramon Ferrer i Cancho
TALP Research Center, Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Edifici Omega Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3, 08034 Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain
Tel. +34 934137870; Fax: +34 934137787
Website: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~rferrericancho/
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Interests: applications of information theory and network theory to biology and linguistics; quantitative linguistics; corpus linguistics; origins and evolution of language
Contribution: Special Issue: Complexity of Human Language and Cognition

Dr. Remo Garattini
Faculty of Engineering, University of Bergamo, Viale Marconi 5, 24044 Dalmine (Bergamo), Italy
Tel. +39 035 2052320; Fax: +39 035 2052310
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Interests: quantum gravity; quantum cosmology; quantum field theory
Contribution: Special Issue: Entropy in Quantum Gravity

Prof. Dr. Alexander Gorban
Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 116 223 14 33
Website: http://www.math.le.ac.uk/people/ag153/
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Interests: neural networks; chemical and biological kinetics; human adaptation to hard living conditions; methods and technologies of collective thinking

Dr. Donald J. Jacobs
Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
Tel. +1 704 687 8143; Fax: +1 704 687 8197
Website: http://maxwell.uncc.edu/djacobs1/
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Interests: computational physics; biological physics; protein stability; phase transitions; brownian motion
Contribution: Special Issue: Entropies of Polymers

Dr. Axel Kleidon
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biogeochemie, Postfach 10 01 64, 07701 Jena, Germany
Tel. +49 3641 57 6217; Fax: +49 3641 57 7217
Website: http://gaia.mpg.de/
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Interests: biodiversity; maximum entropy production; thermodynamics and optimality in the Earth system; Gaia hypothesis; global dynamic vegetation models
Contribution: Special Issue: What Is Maximum Entropy Production and How Should We Apply It?

Prof. Dr. Frank C. Krysiak
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics, Environmental Economics, Peter Merian-Weg 6, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 267 33 60; Fax: +41 61 267 04 96
Website: http://www.wwz.unibas.ch/kopfzeile/personen/profil/profil/person/krysiak/abteilung/umwelt/
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Interests: environmental policy under uncertainty; risk and sustainable development; heterogeneity and policy evaluation

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Linert
Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/163-AC, A-1060 Wien, Austria
Tel. +43 1 58801 15350; Fax: +43 1 58801 16299
Website: http://www.ias.tuwien.ac.at/researchacwl_e.html
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Interests: thermal and optical spin-state transitions; molecular magnets; isokinetic relationships; compensation effect; material science

Prof. Dr. Ingo Müller
Technical University Berlin, Faculty III of Process Sciences, Institute of Process, Engineering, Thermodynamics, Fasanenstr. 90, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
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Interests: irreversible and extended thermodynamics; kinetic theory of gases; shape memory alloys; ferroelectricity; phase transitions and phase diagrams; hysteresis; polyelectrolytic gels; relativistic thermodynamics; rubber and rubber balloons; socio-thermodynamics; history of thermodynamics

Dr. Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Valckenierstraat 65-67, 1018 XE Amsterdam, room 2.43, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0)20 5256332; Fax: +31 (0)20 5255778
Website: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~nieuwenh/
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Interests: foundations of general relativity; sub-quantum mechanics; quantum information theory; quantum measurement process; quantum thermodynamics and the Gibbs paradox; Biophysics: molecular motors; neural networks; DNA adsorption; black hole thermodynamics; black hole information paradox; Gravitation: globular star clusters; thermodynamic description of the glassy state; spin glasses and model glasses; transport of light in strongly scattering media; interfaces and directed polymers; lifshitz and Griffiths singularities; noise in physical systems; random walks on random lattices; disordered chains; foundations of special relativity
Contribution: Special Issue: Gibbs Paradox and Its Resolutions

Dr. Robert Niven
School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, The University of New South Wales at ADFA, Northcott Drive, Canberra, ACT, 2600, Australia
Tel. +61 2 6268 8330
Website: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/acme/staffpages/niven.html
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Interests: entropy; probability theory and information theory; Boltzmann principle; Jaynes' MaxEnt and its scientific; engineering and social applications

Dr. Michael Nosonovsky
Department of Mechanical Engineering, EMS Building, Room E371G, College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413, USA
Tel. +1 414 229 2816; Fax: +1 414 229 6958
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Interests: nanotribology; multiscale mechanisms of dissipation; capillary; instabilities; biotribology; contact mechanics

Dr. Joe Rosen
338 New Mark Esplanade, Rockville MD 20850-2734, USA
Tel. +1 301 610 7666; Fax: +1 301 610 7666
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Interests: symmetry; Curie principle; space; time; spacetime; quantum
Contribution: Special Issue: Symmetry and Entropy

Prof. Dr. Marc A. Rosen
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario, L1H 7K4, Canada
Tel. +1 905 721 8668, ext 3756 ; Fax: +1 905 721 3370
Website: http://www.engineering.uoit.ca/people/rosen
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Interests: sustainable development; energy; exergy; efficiency; environmental impact; economics; ecology; sustainable engineering and design
Contribution: Special Issue: Exergy: Analysis and Applications

Dr. Stanley (Stan) N. Salthe
HCR 86, 228 Laurel Bank Avenue, Deposit, New York 13754, USA
Fax: +1 607 467 2200
Website: http://www.nbi.dk/~natphil/salthe/index.html
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Interests: thermodynamic aspects of development; dissipative structures; maximum entropy production principle (MEPP); philosophical interpretations of entropy

Prof. Dr. Michael (Mike) Stutzer
Professor of Finance and Director, Burridge Center for Securities Analysis and Valuation, Leeds School of Business, 419 UCB, Business 411, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0419, USA
Tel. +1 303 492 4348
Website: http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/stutzer/
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Interests: Kullback-Leibler; large deviations; finance; economics; Esscher transform

Prof. Dr. Bernard Testa
Pharmacy Department, University Hospital Centre, CHUV/BH-04, 46 Rue du Bugnon, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 314 4237; Fax: +41 21 314 4992
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Interests: Emergence / emergent properties; dissolvence / Constrained properties; biochemical systems; drug-biosystem interactions; molecular dynamics simulations

Prof. Dr. Paul M. B. Vitányi
CWI, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. + 31 20 5924124; Fax: + 31 20 5924199
Website: http://www.cwi.nl/~paulv/
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Dr. Takuya Yamano
Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa University, 2946 Tsuchiya, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1293, Japan And Department of Physics, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan
Tel. +81 45 472 8796 ; Fax: +81 45 473 1280
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Interests: nonextensivity; complexity; information; economics
Contribution: Special Issue: Distance in Information and Statistical Physics

Dr. Paola Zizzi
Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of Padova, Via Belzoni 7, 35131 Padova, Italy
Tel. +39 049 8275862; Fax: +39 049 8275892
Website: http://www.math.unipd.it
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Interests: quantum gravity; quantum cosmology; quantum information
Contribution: Special Issue: Quantum Spaces: Where Locality Is not Necessary, Causality Might not Be, but Entropy Certainly Is