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Entropy, Volume 19, Issue 8

August 2017 - 54 articles

Cover Story: How much uncertainty do we have about a given issue? And how relevant is it to another? Information theory provides a framework for quantifying these notions, in terms of entropy, mutual information, and the like. However, it can be difficult to apply in practice, because difficult integrals appear in the calculations. I adapt the Nested Sampling algorithm used in Bayesian statistics, so that it can calculate information theoretic quantities, making applied information theory easier. View this paper
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Articles (54)

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,813 Views
18 Pages

22 August 2017

A group-constrained maximum correntropy criterion (GC-MCC) algorithm is proposed on the basis of the compressive sensing (CS) concept and zero attracting (ZA) techniques and its estimating behavior is verified over sparse multi-path channels. The pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,270 Views
19 Pages

22 August 2017

The traditional slope stability analysis used the Factor of Safety (FS) from the Limit Equilibrium Theory as the determinant. If the FS was greater than 1, it was considered as “safe” and variables or parameters of uncertainty in the analysis model w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,761 Views
16 Pages

22 August 2017

Entropy generation is commonly applied to describe the evolution of irreversible processes, such as heat transfer and turbulence. These are both dominating phenomena in fire propagation. In this paper, entropy generation analysis is applied to a gras...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,167 Views
13 Pages

21 August 2017

Electroencephalography (EEG) is frequently used in functional neurological assessment of children with neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. Multiscale entropy (MSE) can reveal complexity in both short and long time scales and is more feasible...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,864 Views
19 Pages

21 August 2017

In this contribution, we introduce the concepts of logical entropy and logical mutual information of experiments in the intuitionistic fuzzy case, and study the basic properties of the suggested measures. Subsequently, by means of the suggested notio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,132 Views
33 Pages

Minimum and Maximum Entropy Distributions for Binary Systems with Known Means and Pairwise Correlations

  • Badr F. Albanna,
  • Christopher Hillar,
  • Jascha Sohl-Dickstein and
  • Michael R. DeWeese

21 August 2017

Maximum entropy models are increasingly being used to describe the collective activity of neural populations with measured mean neural activities and pairwise correlations, but the full space of probability distributions consistent with these constra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,010 Views
22 Pages

20 August 2017

Modeling of a time-varying dynamical system provides insights into the functions of biological neural networks and contributes to the development of next-generation neural prostheses. In this paper, we have formulated a novel sparse multiwavelet-base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,491 Views
12 Pages

Iterative QR-Based SFSIC Detection and Decoder Algorithm for a Reed–Muller Space-Time Turbo System

  • Liang-Fang Ni,
  • Yi Wang,
  • Wei-Xia Li,
  • Pei-Zhen Wang and
  • Jia-Yan Zhang

20 August 2017

An iterative QR-based soft feedback segment interference cancellation (QRSFSIC) detection and decoder algorithm for a Reed–Muller (RM) space-time turbo system is proposed in this paper. It forms the sufficient statistic for the minimum-mean-square er...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,382 Views
17 Pages

An Improved System for Utilizing Low-Temperature Waste Heat of Flue Gas from Coal-Fired Power Plants

  • Shengwei Huang,
  • Chengzhou Li,
  • Tianyu Tan,
  • Peng Fu,
  • Gang Xu and
  • Yongping Yang

19 August 2017

In this paper, an improved system to efficiently utilize the low-temperature waste heat from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants is proposed based on heat cascade theory. The essence of the proposed system is that the waste heat of exhausted flue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,039 Views
33 Pages

19 August 2017

Low-rank matrix factorizations such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) are a large class of methods for pursuing the low-rank approximation of a given data matrix. The...

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