Entropy

Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era

edited by Xiao Yuan, Xiaoming Zhang and Bálint Koczor

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 18356 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum computing; noisy intermediate-scale quantum; variational quantum simulation; quantum computational chemistry; quantum materials; quantum error mitigation; quantum error correction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Processes and Phenomena

edited by

Esteban Calzetta

and

Bei Lok Hu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10430 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonequilibrium quantum field theory; open quantum systems; quantum thermodynamics; quantum information; atom/nuclear/particle many-body dynamics; cosmology; nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems; fluctuation-induced phenomena; dynamical Casimir effect; quantum friction

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

Semantic Information Theory

edited by Meixia Tao,

Kai Niu

and Youlong Wu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 7702 | Submission Open

Keywords: semantic metric; information bottleneck; rate-distortion-perception trade-off; remote source coding; joint source– channel coding; task-oriented communications; AI-based communications; end-to-end communications; multi-modality communications

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

Big Data Analytics and Information Science for Business and Biomedical Applications: Third Edition

edited by

S. Ejaz Ahmed

and

Farouk Nathoo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6005 | Submission Open

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

Quantum Entanglement—Second Edition

edited by

Leong Chuan Kwek

and

Marco Genovese

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4658 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum entanglement; quantum correlations; quantum information; foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum communication; quantum metrology and sensing; quantum imaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Thermodynamic Optimization of Energy Systems

edited by

Adriano Viana Ensinas

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1577 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermodynamics; energy optimization; sustainable energy systems; multi-objective optimization; emission reduction strategies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Advances in Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Understanding Statistical Physics and Complex Systems Across Scales

edited by Shunda Chen, Zheyong Fan and

Giuliano Benenti

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 928 | Submission Open

Keywords: molecular dynamics; statistical physics; complex systems; transport phenomena; phase transitions; anomalous energy diffusion; thermal transport; thermalization; thermal rectification; nonlinear dynamics; low-dimensional materials; complex multi-component materials systems; entropy; biophysics; physical chemistry; materials science; interdisciplinary research

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Inverse Problems: Advanced Methods and Innovative Applications

edited by

Andrea Murari

,

Teddy Craciunescu

and Ivan Wyss

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 638 | Submission Open

Keywords: parameter estimation; Bayesian statistics; machine learning; neural computation; genetic programming; image processing; information theory; network theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Kolmogorov Complexity and Applications: Theoretical Achievements and Practical Tools

edited by Dragutin T. Mihailović

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 394 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; machine learning and data analysis; quantum computing; cryptography; Lempel– Ziv algorithm (engineering; geosciences; cardiology; neurology oncology; image analysis; language); Kolmogorov complexity spectrum (astrophysics and cosmology; Bell's experiment; earth sciences; financial issues; psychophysics; and philosophical issues)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Quantum Information Theory

edited by César Eduardo Damián-Ascencio and Adriana Saldaña-Robles

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 309 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-equilibrium thermodynamics; quantum information theory; entropy in quantum systems; fluctuation theorems; quantum coherence and decoherence; quantum entanglement; irreversible processes; quantum thermodynamics; quantum computing; statistical thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Exergy Analysis: Theory and Applications

edited by

Tatiana Morosuk

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 258 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermodynamics; irreversibility; entropy generation; exergy concept; chemical exergy; thermal exergy; mechanical exergy; cumulative exergy; extended exergy accounting; exergetic life cycle assessment; advanced exergetic analysis; exergetic control strategy; exergy-based analyses; exergy-based optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

On Synergies Between Chemical Reaction Networks, Mathematical Epidemiology and Population Dynamics

edited by

Florin Avram

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 176 | Submission Open

Keywords: CRN; auto-catalytic CRN; stoichiometric matrix; Feinberg– Horn– Jackson graph; petri/Volpert/DSR graph; species graph; reaction variables; robust lyapunov function; robust non-oscillation; k-contraction; fixed points; Hopf and Bogdanov– Takens bifurcations; Routh– Hurwitz-Lié nard– Chipart criteria; scientific computing; real algebraic geometry; resultants; Groebner bases; stochastic continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) CRN; escape paths; Hamiltonian ODE

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Measurement

edited by Marcin Wieśniak

submission deadline 9 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2409 | Submission Open

Keywords: foundations of physics; quantum measurement; quantum collapse; non-demolishing quantum measurements; emergence of classicality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Control of Driven Stochastic Systems: From Shortcuts to Optimality

edited by Marco Baldovin, Alessandro Manacorda, Dario Lucente, Andrea Plati and

Alessandro Sarracino

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4057 | Submission Open

Keywords: stochastic processes; optimal control; shortcuts to adiabaticity; nonequilibrium statistical mechanics; stochastic thermodynamics; dynamic programming; reinforcement learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Gases

edited by Antonio J. Ramirez-Pastor and Jose Luis Riccardo

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3105 | Submission Open

Keywords: fundamentals of lattice gases; equilibrium thermodynamics; adsorption; phase transitions and critical phenomena; transport phenomena and kinetics; surface diffusion; lattice gases in complex systems; quantum lattice gases

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Complexity, Information and Quantitative Modelling in Single Cell Multiomics

edited by

Federico Bocci

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1215 | Submission Open

Keywords: single-cell multi-omics; theoretical modeling; computational biology; cell modeling; information theory; machine learning

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

Dynamics in Complex Neural Networks, 2nd Edition

edited by

Ivanka Stamova

,

Gani Stamov

,

Trayan Stamov

and Cvetelina Spirova

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1043 | Submission Open

Keywords: stability theory and strategies; control theory; extended stability strategies; delayed neural networks; impulsive neural networks; fractional-order neural networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Bayesian Networks and Causal Discovery

edited by Xiaoguang Gao and Zidong Wang

submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 969 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bayesian network; directed acyclic graphs; causal discovery; structural equation model; structure learning; parameter learning; causal inference; neural networks and their applications

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

Entropy Method for Decision Making with Uncertainty

edited by

Małgorzata Przybyła-Kasperek

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9586 | Submission Open

Keywords: rough sets; fuzzy sets; expert systems; distributed learning; multi-criteria decision making (MCDM); game theory; decision making; uncertainty; decision support systems; information fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Information Theory in Control Systems, 2nd Edition

edited by

Adrian-Mihail Stoica

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4950 | Submission Open

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)

Information-Theoretic Security and Privacy

edited by Mohamed Seif and

Hua Sun

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2905 | Submission Open

Keywords: differential privacy; machine learning; federated learning; secure aggregation; age of information; gossip over networks; statistical inference over networks; information-theoretic privacy and security; wireless network; social networks and healthcare

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

Bayesian Inference for Psychology and Psychiatry

edited by Rutger Goekoop,

Paul Badcock

and

Adam Safron

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 1535 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bayesian inference; mental health; clinical psychology; psychiatry; diagnostic modeling; prognostic modeling; active inference; free energy principle; computational psychiatry; network science

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Structure, Dynamics, Phase Behavior and Applications of the Complex Disordered Systems

edited by Gang Sun and Jiaxing Yuan

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 148 | Submission Open

Keywords: liquid; glass; phase transition; critical phenomena; crystallization; glass transition; liquid– liquid phase transition; phase separation; electrostatic interactions; hydrodynamics; self-organization; dynamics of macromolecular systems; rheology behaviors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Statistical Methods for Modeling High-Dimensional and Complex Data: Second Edition

edited by

Yuehua Wu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7740 | Submission Open

Keywords: model selection; spatiotemporal modeling; cluster analysis; high-dimensional statistics; data mining; multiple change-point detection

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

Causal Inference in Recommender Systems

edited by Fuli Feng and Xu Chen

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7210 | Submission Open

Keywords: recommendation; causal inference; inference retrieval; ranking; information theory; information bottleneck; representation learning; counterfactual explanation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Thermal Analysis and Thermodynamic Analysis for Advanced New Energy Systems

edited by Zeshao Chen and

Gang Wang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2394 | Submission Open

Keywords: new energy system; solar energy; wind power; hydrogen production; biomass energy; geothermal energy; nuclear energy; energy storage; thermodynamic analysis; thermal analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Informational Coordinative and Teleological Control of Distributed and Multi Agent Systems

edited by

Eugene Kagan

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2306 | Submission Open

Keywords: distributed system; multi agent system; informational control; uncertainty; entropy criterions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Nonlocality and Entanglement in Quantum Networks

edited by

Mingxing Luo

and Xue Yang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2106 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum networks; quantum entanglement; quantum nonlocality; quantum network protocols; nonlocal game on quantum networks; quantum network communication; quantum secure applications on quantum networks; experimental techniques on quantum networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Field Theory

edited by Olalla Castro-Alvaredo and David X. Horvath

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1792 | Submission Open

Keywords: entanglement measures; quantum field theory; conformal field theory; quantum spin chains; holography; symmetry; numerics; exact results

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Explaining Economic and Social Science Phenomena Through Physical Models, Second Edition

edited by

Marcin Makowski

and

Jan Sładkowski

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1643 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy and fisher information; quantum games; econophysics; decision making/analysis; quantum market game; quantum-like models; social science; quantum finances

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Task-Oriented Communications in Industrial IoT: Age of Information and Beyond

edited by Jie Cao, Xin Xie and Zhongxiang Wei

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1496 | Submission Open

Keywords: industrial IoT; Age of Information; task-oriented communications; real-time communication

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

Entropy in Machine Learning Applications, 2nd Edition

edited by

Yanchun Liang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 908 | Submission Open

Keywords: knowledge graph; data correlation; differential expression; long short-term memory; semantic disambiguation; advertising vocabulary; entity relationship extraction; semi-supervised learning; cross-entropy loss; semantic entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Spectral Graph Theory, Topological Indices of Graph, and Entropy: Second Edition

edited by

Kinkar Chandra Das

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 316 | Submission Open

Keywords: algebraic graph theory; topological indices of graphs; structural graph theory; pure graph theory; energy of graphs; combinatorics; discrete mathematics; extremal graph theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Secure Network Ecosystems in the Quantum Era

edited by Yuan Cao and

Xiaosong Yu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum networks; quantum communication; quantum key distribution; entanglement generation and distribution; quantum secure direct communication; quantum repeaters and switches; quantum machine learning; quantum algorithms and applications; optical network security; IoT security; satellite network security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Network-Based Machine Learning Approaches in Bioinformatics

edited by

Zhi-Ping Liu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open

Keywords: networks; machine learning; bioinformatics; systems biomedicine; deep learning; graph neural networks; biomolecular interactions; biomarker discovery; context-specific pathways in diseases

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

Entropy, Statistical Evidence, and Scientific Inference: Evidence Functions in Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition

edited by

Brian Dennis

,

Mark L. Taper

and

Jose Miguel Ponciano

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 116 | 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)

Simulation of Open Quantum Systems

edited by Marco Cattaneo and

Mauro Paternostro

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4285 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum simulation; open quantum systems; collision models; variational quantum methods; Markovian quantum dynamics; quantum algorithms; classical simulation of quantum systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Ordinal Patterns-Based Tools and Their Applications

edited by

Luciano Zunino

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3511 | Submission Open

Keywords: permutation entropy; multiscale permutation entropy; ordinal pattern-based quantifiers; multiscale ordinal pattern-based quantifiers; interdisciplinary applications; complexity measures; classification and discrimination tasks; multivariate time series analysis; ordinal pattern-based methodologies and machine learning; ordinal symbolic mapping

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Network- and Information-Theoretic Approaches in the Study of Action and Perception

edited by Ioannis Delis and David O’Reilly

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 928 | Submission Open

Keywords: synergy; redundancy; encoding; decoding; brain networks; muscle networks; interaction information; population coding; EEG; EMG

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

Delay-Doppler Domain Communications for Future Wireless Networks 2nd Edition

edited by

Shuangyang Li

, Qin Tao,

Baoming Bai

and Han Yu

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 531 | Submission Open

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)

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

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

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 9651 | 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)

The Mathematics of Structured Experience: Exploring Dynamics, Topology, and Complexity in the Brain

edited by

Giulio Ruffini

,

Johannes Kleiner

and

Ryota Kanai

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6170 | Submission Open

Keywords: mathematical theories of consciousness; Kolmogorov complexity; AIT; manifold hypothesis; symmetry; world models; dynamics; topology; AI

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

Bayesian Hierarchical Models with Applications

edited by Maura Mezzetti and

Ilia Negri

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 332 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bayesian inference; MCMC; multilevel model; random effects; model comparison; posterior distributions; Stan

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

Advances in Probabilistic Machine Learning

edited by Martin Trapp and

Pierre Alquier

submission deadline 22 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3162 | Submission Open

Keywords: probabilistic machine learning; approximate Bayesian inference; variational inference; tractable probabilistic inference; Bayesian deep learning; probabilistic circuits; uncertainty quantification

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

Quantum Foundations: 100 Years of Born’s Rule

edited by

Dustin Lazarovici

submission deadline 25 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3113 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundations; Born rule; probability in quantum mechanics; quantum measurement theory; quantum statistical mechanics; interpretations of the wave function

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Heat and Mass Transfer and Interface Behavior of Fluid

edited by Li Duan,

Di Wu

,

Jia Wang

and Zhijun Ye

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 289 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; convection; heat and mass transfer; interface dynamics; phase change; Marangoni migration; diffusion; instability; nonlinear transition; chaos; turbulence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Recent Advances in High Entropy Alloys

edited by Hui Xu and

Zhong Li

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4650 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-entropy alloys/materials; medium-entropy alloy/materials; alloy design; synthesis methods; magnetic properties; mechanical properties; electrocatalysis; irradiation; microstructure; modeling and simulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information II

edited by

Yi-Cheng Zhang

and

Shimin Cai

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4501 | Submission Open

Keywords: information systems; neural networks ; information theory; complexity theory; statistical physics; complex networks; complexity and entropy in AI; data-driven modelling; machine learning and deep learning; time-series analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Modified Gravity: From Black Holes Entropy to Current Cosmology, 4th Edition

edited by

Kazuharu Bamba

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4092 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum aspects of black holes; evaporation; thermodynamics; black hole entropy; modified theories of gravity; dark energy; inflationary cosmology; observational cosmology; physics in the early universe; astrophysics of compact objects

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

Computational Thermodynamics and Its Applications

edited by

Klaus Hack

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3903 | 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)

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