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Entropy, Volume 18, Issue 11

2016 November - 36 articles

Cover Story: The study of the thermodynamic properties of quantum conductors in the presence of time-dependent potentials is a new field which could have promising ramifications on different systems (Bose-Einstein condensates, nanoelectromechanical resonators, light-powered biological systems and molecular pumps). Our paper reviews recent investigations regarding energy transport and entropy production in periodically-driven quantum electronic systems, with emphasis on current questions and unsolved issues.View this paper.
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Articles (36)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,338 Views
15 Pages

23 November 2016

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for the diagnosis of incipient bearing faults and trend prediction of weak faults which result in gradual aggravation with the bearing vibration intensity as the characteristic parameter. For the weak fault...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wavelets, Fractals and Information Theory II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,026 Views
7 Pages

23 November 2016

A simple harmonic oscillator canonical ensemble model for Schwarzchild black hole quantum tunneling radiation is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the equivalence between canonical ensemble model and Parikh–Wilczek’s tunneling method is introduced. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Black Hole Thermodynamics II)
  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
7,641 Views
19 Pages

Periodic Energy Transport and Entropy Production in Quantum Electronics

  • María Florencia Ludovico,
  • Liliana Arrachea,
  • Michael Moskalets and
  • David Sánchez

23 November 2016

The problem of time-dependent particle transport in quantum conductors is nowadays a well established topic. In contrast, the way in which energy and heat flow in mesoscopic systems subjected to dynamical drivings is a relatively new subject that cro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,522 Views
9 Pages

On the Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions for Local Fractional Differential Equations

  • Hossein Jafari,
  • Hassan Kamil Jassim,
  • Maysaa Al Qurashi and
  • Dumitru Baleanu

23 November 2016

In this manuscript, we prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions for local fractional differential equations (LFDEs) with local fractional derivative operators (LFDOs). By using the contracting mapping theorem (CMT) and increasing and decreasin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wavelets, Fractals and Information Theory II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,412 Views
14 Pages

19 November 2016

In this research, a model is established to represent a supply chain, which consists of one manufacturer and two retailers. The price-sensitive demand model is considered and the price game system is built according to the rule of bounded rationality...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,436 Views
12 Pages

18 November 2016

This paper investigates an improved noise reduction method and its application on gearbox vibration signal de-noising. A hybrid de-noising algorithm based on local mean decomposition (LMD), sample entropy (SE), and time-frequency peak filtering (TFPF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,388 Views
13 Pages

18 November 2016

This paper is devoted to studying the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions for an initial boundary problem of a nonlinear fourth-order parabolic equation with variable exponent v t + div ( | ∇ ▵ v | p ( x ) − 2 ∇ ▵ v ) − | ▵ v | ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropic Aspects of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Classical and Quantum Mechanical Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,777 Views
26 Pages

17 November 2016

Choosing between competing models lies at the heart of scientific work, and is a frequent motivation for experimentation. Optimal experimental design (OD) methods maximize the benefit of experiments towards a specified goal. We advance and demonstrat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Information Theory in the Geosciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,663 Views
15 Pages

17 November 2016

Multiscale entropy (MSE) was introduced in the 2000s to quantify systems’ complexity. MSE relies on (i) a coarse-graining procedure to derive a set of time series representing the system dynamics on different time scales; (ii) the computation of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multivariate Entropy Measures and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,682 Views
16 Pages

Geometry Induced by a Generalization of Rényi Divergence

  • David C. De Souza,
  • Rui F. Vigelis and
  • Charles C. Cavalcante

17 November 2016

In this paper, we propose a generalization of Rényi divergence, and then we investigate its induced geometry. This generalization is given in terms of a φ-function, the same function that is used in the definition of non-parametric φ-families. The pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Geometrical Theory of Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,246 Views
18 Pages

Symplectic Entropy as a Novel Measure for Complex Systems

  • Min Lei,
  • Guang Meng,
  • Wenming Zhang,
  • Joshua Wade and
  • Nilanjan Sarkar

17 November 2016

Real systems are often complex, nonlinear, and noisy in various fields, including mathematics, natural science, and social science. We present the symplectic entropy (SymEn) measure as well as an analysis method based on SymEn to estimate the nonline...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,586 Views
25 Pages

17 November 2016

The information loss in deterministic, memoryless systems is investigated by evaluating the conditional entropy of the input random variable given the output random variable. It is shown that for a large class of systems the information loss is finit...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,022 Views
19 Pages

Thermodynamics of Noncommutative Quantum Kerr Black Holes

  • Lenin F. Escamilla-Herrera,
  • Eri A. Mena-Barboza and
  • José Torres-Arenas

16 November 2016

The thermodynamic formalism for rotating black holes, characterized by noncommutative and quantum corrections, is constructed. From a fundamental thermodynamic relation, the equations of state and thermodynamic response functions are explicitly given...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Black Hole Thermodynamics II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,250 Views
11 Pages

Global Atmospheric Dynamics Investigated by Using Hilbert Frequency Analysis

  • Dario A. Zappalà,
  • Marcelo Barreiro and
  • Cristina Masoller

16 November 2016

The Hilbert transform is a well-known tool of time series analysis that has been widely used to investigate oscillatory signals that resemble a noisy periodic oscillation, because it allows instantaneous phase and frequency to be estimated, which in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Information Theory in the Geosciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,995 Views
16 Pages

15 November 2016

Constructing a merged concept lattice with formal concept analysis (FCA) is an important research direction in the field of integrating multi-source geo-ontologies. Extracting essential geographical properties and reducing the concept lattice are two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,966 Views
15 Pages

Decision-Making Model under Risk Assessment Based on Entropy

  • Xin Dong,
  • Hao Lu,
  • Yuanpu Xia and
  • Ziming Xiong

15 November 2016

Decision-making under risk assessment involves dealing with the matter of uncertainty, especially in projects such as tunnel construction. Risk control should include not only measures to reduce the possible consequence of incident, but also explorat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,897 Views
26 Pages

15 November 2016

Multi-label feature selection is designed to select a subset of features according to their importance to multiple labels. This task can be achieved by ranking the dependencies of features and selecting the features with the highest rankings. In a mu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,010 Views
37 Pages

14 November 2016

Biological evolution progresses by essentially three different mechanisms: (I) optimization of properties through natural selection in a population of competitors; (II) development of new capabilities through cooperation of competitors caused by cata...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information and Self-Organization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,089 Views
11 Pages

Fractional-Order Identification and Control of Heating Processes with Non-Continuous Materials

  • Riccardo Caponetto,
  • Francesca Sapuppo,
  • Vincenzo Tomasello,
  • Guido Maione and
  • Paolo Lino

12 November 2016

The paper presents a fractional order model of a heating process and a comparison of fractional and standard PI controllers in its closed loop system. Preliminarily, an enhanced fractional order model for the heating process on non-continuous materia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Systems and Fractional Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
6,925 Views
15 Pages

11 November 2016

In order to solve the problem of feature extraction of underwater acoustic signals in complex ocean environment, a new method for feature extraction from ship-radiated noise is presented based on empirical mode decomposition theory and permutation en...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,981 Views
14 Pages

11 November 2016

We consider questions posed in a recent paper of Mandayam et al. (2014) on the nature of “unextendible mutually unbiased bases.” We describe a conceptual framework to study these questions, using a connection proved by the author in Thas (2009) betwe...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,366 Views
12 Pages

Rectification and Non-Gaussian Diffusion in Heterogeneous Media

  • Paolo Malgaretti,
  • Ignacio Pagonabarraga and
  • J. Miguel Rubi

11 November 2016

We show that when Brownian motion takes place in a heterogeneous medium, the presence of local forces and transport coefficients leads to deviations from a Gaussian probability distribution that make that the ratio between forward and backward probab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonequilibrium Phenomena in Confined Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
12,232 Views
18 Pages

Kernel Density Estimation on the Siegel Space with an Application to Radar Processing

  • Emmanuel Chevallier,
  • Thibault Forget,
  • Frédéric Barbaresco and
  • Jesus Angulo

11 November 2016

This paper studies probability density estimation on the Siegel space. The Siegel space is a generalization of the hyperbolic space. Its Riemannian metric provides an interesting structure to the Toeplitz block Toeplitz matrices that appear in the co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Geometrical Theory of Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,476 Views
11 Pages

10 November 2016

Here, a new method is proposed to quantitatively evaluate the eddy current distribution induced by different exciting coils of an eddy current probe. Probability of energy allocation of a vector field is modeled via conservation of energy and imitati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maximum Entropy and Its Application II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,187 Views
9 Pages

9 November 2016

Thermodynamics problems for the single-phase-lagging (SPL) model have not been much studied. In this paper, the violation of the second law of thermodynamics by the SPL model is studied from two perspectives, which are the negative entropy production...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Applied Thermodynamics II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,410 Views
22 Pages

4 November 2016

Multiresolution models such as the wavelet-domain hidden Markov tree (HMT) model provide a powerful approach for image modeling and processing because it captures the key features of the wavelet coefficients of real-world data. It is observed that th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wavelets, Fractals and Information Theory II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
13,274 Views
72 Pages

4 November 2016

We introduce the symplectic structure of information geometry based on Souriau’s Lie group thermodynamics model, with a covariant definition of Gibbs equilibrium via invariances through co-adjoint action of a group on its moment space, defining physi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Geometrical Theory of Statistics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,468 Views
15 Pages

4 November 2016

The number of mobile phone users keeps increasing every year and mobile phones have become a primary need for most people. Ordinarily, people are not aware of the risk from a common dual-task study, such as using a mobile phone while walking or simpl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multivariate Entropy Measures and Their Applications)
  • Discussion
  • Open Access
4 Citations
11,336 Views
20 Pages

3 November 2016

Lindsay in an article titled, “Entropy consumption and values in physical science,” (Am. Sci. 1959, 47, 678–696) proposed a Thermodynamic Imperative similar to Kant’s Ethical Categorical Imperative. In this paper, after describing the concept of ethi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,994 Views
22 Pages

31 October 2016

The secrecy capacity of an extended communication model of wiretap channelII is determined. In this channel model, the source message is encoded into a digital sequence of length N and transmitted to the legitimate receiver through a discrete memoryl...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,912 Views
12 Pages

Entropy Analysis of a Railway Network’s Complexity

  • Duarte Valério,
  • António M. Lopes and
  • José A. Tenreiro Machado

31 October 2016

Railway networks are among the many physical systems that reveal a fractal structure. This paper studies the Portuguese railway system, and analyzes how it evolved over time, namely what concerns the structure of its different levels, and its distrib...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
117 Citations
10,174 Views
18 Pages

31 October 2016

In this study, energy and exergy analysis were performed for a single cylinder, water-cooled diesel engine using biodiesel, diesel and bioethanol blends. Each experiment was performed at twelve different engine speeds between 1000 and 3000 rev/min at...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,585 Views
13 Pages

Application of the Self-Organization Phenomenon in the Development of Wear Resistant Materials—A Review

  • Iosif Gershman,
  • Eugeniy I. Gershman,
  • Alexander E. Mironov,
  • German S. Fox-Rabinovich and
  • Stephen C. Veldhuis

27 October 2016

Application of the phenomenon of self-organization for the development of wear resistant materials has been reviewed. For this purpose the term of self-organization and dissipative structures as applied to tribology have been discussed. The applicati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy Application in Tribology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,474 Views
17 Pages

26 October 2016

Mixture models are in high demand for machine-learning analysis due to their computational tractability, and because they serve as a good approximation for continuous densities. Predominantly, entropy applications have been developed in the context o...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Applied Statistical Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,060 Views
16 Pages

26 October 2016

The Koszul–Vinberg characteristic function plays a fundamental role in the theory of convex cones. We give an explicit description of the function and related integral formulas for a new class of convex cones, including homogeneous cones and cones as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Differential Geometrical Theory of Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
9,363 Views
17 Pages

The Geometry of Signal Detection with Applications to Radar Signal Processing

  • Yongqiang Cheng,
  • Xiaoqiang Hua,
  • Hongqiang Wang,
  • Yuliang Qin and
  • Xiang Li

25 October 2016

The problem of hypothesis testing in the Neyman–Pearson formulation is considered from a geometric viewpoint. In particular, a concise geometric interpretation of deterministic and random signal detection in the philosophy of information geometry is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar and Information Theory)
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