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Entropy, Volume 20, Issue 11

November 2018 - 84 articles

Cover Story: From physics to the social sciences, information is now seen as a fundamental component of reality. However, a form of information seems underestimated, perhaps precisely because it is so pervasive that we take it for granted: the information encoded in the very environment we live in. Bridging information theory, cognitive science, urban studies and social systems theory, we introduce a three-layered model of information in cities, namely, environmental information in physical space and semantic space, and the information enacted by agents. We propose forms of estimating entropy in those layers, and apply these measures to emblematic urban cases and simulated scenarios. Our results suggest that environmental information affects coordination in interaction systems, and that the interplay of minds, cities and societies could only happen through information. Information is the bridge. View this paper
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Articles (84)

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,921 Views
11 Pages

Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of a NiCrFeCoMn High-Entropy Alloy Deformed at High Strain Rates

  • Bingfeng Wang,
  • Xianrui Yao,
  • Chu Wang,
  • Xiaoyong Zhang and
  • Xiaoxia Huang

21 November 2018

The equiatomic NiCrFeCoMn high-entropy alloy prepared by arc melting has a single crystallographic structure. Mechanical properties and microstructure of the NiCrFeCoMn high-entropy alloy deformed at high strain rates (900 s−1 to 4600 s−1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,955 Views
6 Pages

Small-Scale Plastic Deformation of Nanocrystalline High Entropy Alloy

  • Sanghita Mridha,
  • Mageshwari Komarasamy,
  • Sanjit Bhowmick,
  • Rajiv S. Mishra and
  • Sundeep Mukherjee

20 November 2018

High entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted widespread interest due to their unique properties at many different length-scales. Here, we report the fabrication of nanocrystalline (NC) Al0.1CoCrFeNi high entropy alloy and subsequent small-scale plastic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
10,864 Views
19 Pages

20 November 2018

It has been 14 years since the discovery of the high-entropy alloys (HEAs), an idea of alloying which has reinvigorated materials scientists to explore unconventional alloy compositions and multicomponent alloy systems. Many authors have referred to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,457 Views
15 Pages

20 November 2018

A new measure for the characterization of interconnected dynamical systems coupling is proposed. The method is based on the representation of time series as weighted cross-visibility networks. The weights are introduced as the metric distance between...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,385 Views
15 Pages

19 November 2018

In this work, we report the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) for an electron interacting with an antidot, under the effect of an Aharonov-Bohm flux (AB-flux) subjected to a parabolic confinement potential. We use the Bogachek and Landman model, which addi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,551 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2018

In this work we use clustering techniques to identify groups of firms competing in similar technological markets. Our clustering properly highlights technological similarities grouping together firms normally classified in different industrial sector...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
5,168 Views
24 Pages

17 November 2018

The main purpose of the present study is to apply three classification models, namely, the index of entropy (IOE) model, the logistic regression (LR) model, and the support vector machine (SVM) model by radial basis function (RBF), to produce landsli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,344 Views
13 Pages

Advanced Statistical Testing of Quantum Random Number Generators

  • Aldo C. Martínez,
  • Aldo Solis,
  • Rafael Díaz Hernández Rojas,
  • Alfred B. U'Ren,
  • Jorge G. Hirsch and
  • Isaac Pérez Castillo

17 November 2018

Pseudo-random number generators are widely used in many branches of science, mainly in applications related to Monte Carlo methods, although they are deterministic in design and, therefore, unsuitable for tackling fundamental problems in security and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,243 Views
21 Pages

17 November 2018

Blind/no-reference image quality assessment is performed to accurately evaluate the perceptual quality of a distorted image without prior information from a reference image. In this paper, an effective blind image quality assessment approach based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,806 Views
12 Pages

Merging of Numerical Intervals in Entropy-Based Discretization

  • Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse and
  • Teresa Mroczek

16 November 2018

As previous research indicates, a multiple-scanning methodology for discretization of numerical datasets, based on entropy, is very competitive. Discretization is a process of converting numerical values of the data records into discrete values assoc...

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