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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
18 Citations
3,577 Views
9 Pages

Optimal Belief Approximation

  • Reimar H. Leike and
  • Torsten A. Enßlin

4 August 2017

In Bayesian statistics probability distributions express beliefs. However, for many problems the beliefs cannot be computed analytically and approximations of beliefs are needed. We seek a loss function that quantifies how “embarrassing” it is to com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,599 Views
18 Pages

On the Modelling and Control of a Laboratory Prototype of a Hydraulic Canal Based on a TITO Fractional-Order Model

  • Andres San-Millan,
  • Daniel Feliu-Talegón,
  • Vicente Feliu-Batlle and
  • Raul Rivas-Perez

3 August 2017

In this paper a two-input, two-output (TITO) fractional order mathematical model of a laboratory prototype of a hydraulic canal is proposed. This canal is made up of two pools that have a strong interaction between them. The inputs of the TITO model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,504 Views
8 Pages

2 August 2017

Over the last decade, it has been found that nonlinear laws of composition of momenta are predicted by some alternative approaches to “real” 4D quantum gravity, and by all formulations of dimensionally-reduced (3D) quantum gravity coupled to matter....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,716 Views
19 Pages

Coupled DM Heating in SCDEW Cosmologies

  • Silvio Bonometto and
  • Roberto Mainini

2 August 2017

Strongly-Coupled Dark Energy plus Warm dark matter (SCDEW) cosmologies admit the stationary presence of ∼1% of coupled-DM and DE, since inflationary reheating. Coupled-DM fluctuations therefore grow up to non-linearity even in the early radiative exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,357 Views
16 Pages

2 August 2017

Networks of stochastic spiking neurons are interesting models in the area of theoretical neuroscience, presenting both continuous and discontinuous phase transitions. Here, we study fully-connected networks analytically, numerically and by computatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,236 Views
16 Pages

2 August 2017

This paper presents a novel low probability of intercept (LPI) optimization framework in radar network by minimizing the Schleher intercept factor based on minimum mean-square error (MMSE) estimation. MMSE of the estimate of the target scatterer matr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,989 Views
12 Pages

1 August 2017

In this paper, a new method for controlling a quantum ensemble that its members have uncertainties in Hamiltonian parameters is designed. Based on combining the sampling-based learning control (SLC) and a new quantum genetic algorithm (QGA) method, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
130 Citations
9,899 Views
16 Pages

A Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Method Based on AHP and Entropy for a Landslide Susceptibility Map

  • Hongliang Zhao,
  • Leihua Yao,
  • Gang Mei,
  • Tianyu Liu and
  • Yuansong Ning

1 August 2017

Landslides are a common type of natural disaster in mountainous areas. As a result of the comprehensive influences of geology, geomorphology and climatic conditions, the susceptibility to landslide hazards in mountainous areas shows obvious regionali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,960 Views
23 Pages

1 August 2017

We present a systematic coarse-graining (CG) strategy for many particle molecular systems based on cluster expansion techniques. We construct a hierarchy of coarse-grained Hamiltonians with interaction potentials consisting of two, three and higher b...

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