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Entropy, Volume 20, Issue 10

October 2018 - 89 articles

Cover Story: By studying the stochastic complexity of spin models with interactions of an arbitrary order, we find that the simplicity of a model is not determined by the order of the interactions, but rather by their mutual arrangements. As in physics, simple models allow predictions that are easy to falsify. On the contrary, models that are often used in statistical learning, appear to be highly complex, because of their extended set of interactions, and difficult to falsify. View this paper.
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Articles (89)

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,594 Views
12 Pages

22 October 2018

This paper proposes a distributed joint source-channel coding (DJSCC) scheme using polar-like codes. In the proposed scheme, each distributed source encodes source message with a quasi-uniform systematic polar code (QSPC) or a punctured QSPC, and onl...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,927 Views
29 Pages

The Role of Data in Model Building and Prediction: A Survey Through Examples

  • Marco Baldovin,
  • Fabio Cecconi,
  • Massimo Cencini,
  • Andrea Puglisi and
  • Angelo Vulpiani

22 October 2018

The goal of Science is to understand phenomena and systems in order to predict their development and gain control over them. In the scientific process of knowledge elaboration, a crucial role is played by models which, in the language of quantitative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,977 Views
12 Pages

Estimation of Activity Interaction Parameters in Fe-S-j Systems

  • Tianhua Ju,
  • Xueyong Ding,
  • Yingyi Zhang,
  • Weiliang Chen,
  • Xiangkui Cheng,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Jingxin Dai and
  • Xinlin Yan

22 October 2018

It is important to know the activity interaction parameters between components in melts in the process of metallurgy. However, it’s considerably difficult to measure them experimentally, relying still to a large extent on theoretical calculatio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,086 Views
11 Pages

19 October 2018

The entropy of Boltzmann-Gibbs, as proved by Shannon and Khinchin, is based on four axioms, where the fourth one concerns additivity. The group theoretic entropies make use of formal group theory to replace this axiom with a more general composabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,290 Views
21 Pages

19 October 2018

By introducing net entropy into a stock network, this paper focuses on investigating the impact of network entropy on market returns and trading in the Chinese Growth Enterprise Market (GEM). In this paper, indices of Wu structure entropy (WSE) and S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,158 Views
15 Pages

Heat Transfer and Flow Structures of Laminar Confined Slot Impingement Jet with Power-Law Non-Newtonian Fluid

  • Yan Qiang,
  • Liejiang Wei,
  • Xiaomei Luo,
  • Hongchao Jian,
  • Wenan Wang and
  • Fenfen Li

18 October 2018

Heat transfer performances and flow structures of laminar impinging slot jets with power-law non-Newtonian fluids and corresponding typical industrial fluids (Carboxyl Methyl Cellulose (CMC) solutions and Xanthangum (XG) solutions) have been studied...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,089 Views
21 Pages

18 October 2018

To enhance the encryption proficiency and encourage the protected transmission of multiple images, the current work introduces an encryption algorithm for multiple images using the combination of mixed image elements (MIES) and a two-dimensional econ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,040 Views
19 Pages

18 October 2018

In this work, we consider extended irreversible thermodynamics in assuming that the entropy density is a function of both common thermodynamic variables and their higher-order time derivatives. An expression for entropy production, and the linear phe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,104 Views
14 Pages

The Middle-Income Trap and the Coping Strategies From Network-Based Perspectives

  • Ming-Yang Zhou,
  • Wen-Man Xiong,
  • Xiao-Yu Li and
  • Hao Liao

18 October 2018

When a developing country reaches a relatively average income level, it often stops growing further and its income does not improve. This is known as the middle-income trap. How to overcome this trap is a longstanding problem for developing countries...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,752 Views
3 Pages

17 October 2018

Section 4 of “Naudts J. Quantum Statistical Manifolds. Entropy 2018, 20, 472” contains errors. They have limited consequences for the remainder of the paper. A new version of this Section is found here. Some smaller shortcomings of the pa...

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