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Entropy, Volume 20, Issue 6

2018 June - 89 articles

Cover Story: As far back as 1957, Andrew M. Gleason suggested that, in perfect measurements, quantum probabilities can be formalized by taking an arbitrary orthonormal basis and forming the absolute squares of the length of the projections of the state vector onto the vectors of that basis. In that way, positivity and, in particular, additivity are guaranteed for mutually exclusive co-measurable events corresponding to that basis. View this paper
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Articles (89)

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,317 Views
21 Pages

20 June 2018

Accounting informatization is an important part of enterprise informatization. It affects the accounting and finance operational efficiency. With the comprehensive evaluation of accounting informatization from multiple aspects, we can find the streng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 20th Anniversary of Entropy - Recent Advances in Entropy and Information-Theoretic Concepts and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,172 Views
12 Pages

The Complexity Measures Associated with the Fluctuations of the Entropy in Natural Time before the Deadly México M8.2 Earthquake on 7 September 2017

  • Alejandro Ramírez-Rojas,
  • Elsa Leticia Flores-Márquez,
  • Nicholas V. Sarlis and
  • Panayiotis A. Varotsos

20 June 2018

We analyse seismicity during the 6-year period 2012–2017 in the new time domain termed natural time in the Chiapas region where the M8.2 earthquake occurred, Mexico’s largest earthquake in more than a century, in order to study the comple...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Methods of Complex Systems in Earthquake Physics including Precursory Phenomena)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,666 Views
8 Pages

20 June 2018

We review an argument that bipartite “PR-box” correlations, though designed to respect relativistic causality, in fact violate relativistic causality in the classical limit. As a test of this argument, we consider Greenberger–Horne&...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Nonlocality)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,638 Views
15 Pages

20 June 2018

With the increasing use of online social networking platforms, online surveys are widely used in many fields, e.g., public health, business and sociology, to collect samples and to infer the population characteristics through self-reported data of re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Frontier in Chaos Theory and Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,905 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2018

The article describes an interpretation of the mathematical formalism of standard quantum mechanics in terms of relations. In particular, the wave function ψ(x) is interpreted as a complex-valued relation between an entity (often called “pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emergent Quantum Mechanics – David Bohm Centennial Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,215 Views
13 Pages

Approaching Retinal Ganglion Cell Modeling and FPGA Implementation for Robotics

  • Alejandro Linares-Barranco,
  • Hongjie Liu,
  • Antonio Rios-Navarro,
  • Francisco Gomez-Rodriguez,
  • Diederik P. Moeys and
  • Tobi Delbruck

19 June 2018

Taking inspiration from biology to solve engineering problems using the organizing principles of biological neural computation is the aim of the field of neuromorphic engineering. This field has demonstrated success in sensor based applications (visi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2017)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,784 Views
19 Pages

18 June 2018

We revisit the concept of entanglement within the Bohmian approach to quantum mechanics. Inspired by Bohmian dynamics, we introduce two partial measures for the amount of entanglement corresponding to a pure state of a pair of quantum particles. One...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Foundations: 90 Years of Uncertainty)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,272 Views
21 Pages

Noise Enhanced Signal Detection of Variable Detectors under Certain Constraints

  • Ting Yang,
  • Shujun Liu,
  • Wenguo Liu,
  • Jishun Guo and
  • Pin Wang

17 June 2018

In this paper, a noise enhanced binary hypothesis-testing problem was studied for a variable detector under certain constraints in which the detection probability can be increased and the false-alarm probability can be decreased simultaneously. Accor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Foundations of Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,391 Views
19 Pages

Coupled Node Similarity Learning for Community Detection in Attributed Networks

  • Fanrong Meng,
  • Xiaobin Rui,
  • Zhixiao Wang,
  • Yan Xing and
  • Longbing Cao

17 June 2018

Attributed networks consist of not only a network structure but also node attributes. Most existing community detection algorithms only focus on network structures and ignore node attributes, which are also important. Although some algorithms using b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Frontier in Chaos Theory and Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,127 Views
16 Pages

17 June 2018

Quantum information geometry studies families of quantum states by means of differential geometry. A new approach is followed with the intention to facilitate the introduction of a more general theory in subsequent work. To this purpose, the emphasis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,409 Views
10 Pages

Analytic Solution for a Complex Network of Chaotic Oscillators

  • Jonathan N. Blakely,
  • Marko S. Milosavljevic and
  • Ned J. Corron

16 June 2018

Chaotic evolution is generally too irregular to be captured in an analytic solution. Nonetheless, some dynamical systems do have such solutions enabling more rigorous analysis than can be achieved with numerical solutions. Here, we introduce a method...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Frontier in Chaos Theory and Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,370 Views
19 Pages

Impact of Multi-Causal Transport Mechanisms in an Electrolyte Supported Planar SOFC with (ZrO2)x−1(Y2O3)x Electrolyte

  • Gerardo Valadez Huerta,
  • Vincent Flasbart,
  • Tobias Marquardt,
  • Pablo Radici and
  • Stephan Kabelac

16 June 2018

The calculation of the entropy production rate within an operational high temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is necessary to design and improve heating and cooling strategies. However, due to a lack of information, most of the studies are limit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature of Heat and Entropy: Fundamentals and Applications for Diverse and Sustainable Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,417 Views
15 Pages

15 June 2018

A consensus seems to have developed that the Gibbs paradox in classical thermodynamics (the discontinuous drop in the entropy of mixing when the mixed gases become equal to each other) is unmysterious: in any actual situation, two gases can be separa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gibbs Paradox 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,797 Views
35 Pages

Strong Secrecy on a Class of Degraded Broadcast Channels Using Polar Codes

  • Jaume Del Olmo Alos and
  • Javier Rodríguez Fonollosa

15 June 2018

Asymptotic secrecy-capacity achieving polar coding schemes are proposed for the memoryless degraded broadcast channel under different reliability and secrecy requirements: layered decoding or layered secrecy. In these settings, the transmitter wishes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,315 Views
10 Pages

14 June 2018

We show that a noiseless linear amplifier (NLA) can be placed properly at the receiver’s end to improve the performance of self-referenced (SR) continuous variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) when the reference pulses are weak. In SR CV-Q...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coherence in Open Quantum Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
14,533 Views
16 Pages

14 June 2018

The biggest and most lasting among David Bohm’s (1917–1992) many achievements is to have proposed a picture of reality that explains the empirical rules of quantum mechanics. This picture, known as pilot wave theory or Bohmian mechanics a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emergent Quantum Mechanics – David Bohm Centennial Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,492 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Delay Linear Coupling Logistics Map Model for Color Image Encryption

  • Shouliang Li,
  • Weikang Ding,
  • Benshun Yin,
  • Tongfeng Zhang and
  • Yide Ma

14 June 2018

With the popularity of the Internet, the transmission of images has become more frequent. It is of great significance to study efficient and secure image encryption algorithms. Based on traditional Logistic maps and consideration of delay, we propose...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Frontier in Chaos Theory and Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,304 Views
20 Pages

Non-Quadratic Distances in Model Assessment

  • Marianthi Markatou and
  • Yang Chen

14 June 2018

One natural way to measure model adequacy is by using statistical distances as loss functions. A related fundamental question is how to construct loss functions that are scientifically and statistically meaningful. In this paper, we investigate non-q...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Developments in Statistical Information Theory Based on Entropy and Divergence Measures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
10,783 Views
21 Pages

14 June 2018

Quantum physics demands some radical revision of our fundamental beliefs about physical reality. We know that because there are certain verified physical phenomena—two-slit interference, the disappearance of interference upon monitoring, violat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emergent Quantum Mechanics – David Bohm Centennial Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,218 Views
14 Pages

Vacuum Landscaping: Cause of Nonlocal Influences without Signaling

  • Gerhard Grössing,
  • Siegfried Fussy,
  • Johannes Mesa Pascasio and
  • Herbert Schwabl

13 June 2018

In the quest for an understanding of nonlocality with respect to an appropriate ontology, we propose a “cosmological solution”. We assume that from the beginning of the universe each point in space has been the location of a scalar field...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emergent Quantum Mechanics – David Bohm Centennial Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,131 Views
15 Pages

Recommending Queries by Extracting Thematic Experiences from Complex Search Tasks

  • Yuli Zhao,
  • Yin Zhang,
  • Bin Zhang,
  • Kening Gao and
  • Pengfei Li

13 June 2018

Since complex search tasks are usually divided into subtasks, providing subtask-oriented query recommendations is an effective way to support complex search tasks. Currently, most subtask-oriented query recommendation methods extract subtasks from pl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Frontier in Chaos Theory and Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,974 Views
22 Pages

13 June 2018

Black holes pose great difficulties for theory since gravity and quantum theory must be combined in some as yet unknown way. An additional difficulty is that detailed black hole observational data to guide theorists is lacking. In this paper, I sides...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometry in Thermodynamics II)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,692 Views
8 Pages

12 June 2018

This short note addresses the problem of autonomous on-line path-panning for exploration and occupancy-grid mapping using a mobile robot. The underlying algorithm for simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) is based on random-finite set (RFS) mo...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,348 Views
21 Pages

Thermodynamic Explanation of Landau Damping by Reduction to Hydrodynamics

  • Michal Pavelka,
  • Václav Klika and
  • Miroslav Grmela

12 June 2018

Landau damping is the tendency of solutions to the Vlasov equation towards spatially homogeneous distribution functions. The distribution functions, however, approach the spatially homogeneous manifold only weakly, and Boltzmann entropy is not change...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mesoscopic Thermodynamics and Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,380 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Fault Diagnosis Method of Rolling Bearings Based on AFEWT-KDEMI

  • Mingtao Ge,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Fangfang Zhang,
  • Ke Bai and
  • Xiangyang Ren

11 June 2018

According to the dynamic characteristics of the rolling bearing vibration signal and the distribution characteristics of its noise, a fault identification method based on the adaptive filtering empirical wavelet transform (AFEWT) and kernel density e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,193 Views
36 Pages

Uncertainty Relations for Coarse–Grained Measurements: An Overview

  • Fabricio Toscano,
  • Daniel S. Tasca,
  • Łukasz Rudnicki and
  • Stephen P. Walborn

10 June 2018

Uncertainty relations involving incompatible observables are one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics. Aside from their fundamental significance, they play an important role in practical applications, such as detection of quantum correlations and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Foundations: 90 Years of Uncertainty)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,323 Views
16 Pages

9 June 2018

Two distinct puzzles, which are both known as Gibbs’ paradox, have interested physicists since they were first identified in the 1870s. They each have significance for the foundations of statistical mechanics and have led to lively discussions...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gibbs Paradox 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,474 Views
28 Pages

9 June 2018

Bohmian mechanics, widely known within the field of the quantum foundations, has been a quite useful resource for computational and interpretive purposes in a wide variety of practical problems. Here, it is used to establish a comparative analysis at...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emergent Quantum Mechanics – David Bohm Centennial Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,028 Views
19 Pages

9 June 2018

In multiphase (≥3) equilibrium calculations, when the Newton method is used to solve the material balance (Rachford-Rice) equations, poorly conditioned Jacobian can lead to false convergence. We present a robust successive substitution method that so...

(This article belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
10,293 Views
13 Pages

9 June 2018

Different notions of entropy can be identified in different scientific communities: (i) the thermodynamic sense; (ii) the information sense; (iii) the statistical sense; (iv) the disorder sense; and (v) the homogeneity sense. Especially the “di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 4th International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
7,655 Views
22 Pages

Sample Entropy of the Heart Rate Reflects Properties of the System Organization of Behaviour

  • Anastasiia V. Bakhchina,
  • Karina R. Arutyunova,
  • Alexey A. Sozinov,
  • Alexander V. Demidovsky and
  • Yurii I. Alexandrov

8 June 2018

Cardiac activity is involved in the processes of organization of goal-directed behaviour. Each behavioural act is aimed at achieving an adaptive outcome and it is subserved by the actualization of functional systems consisting of elements distributed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluation of Systems’ Irregularity and Complexity: Sample Entropy, Its Derivatives, and Their Applications across Scales and Disciplines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,573 Views

7 June 2018

One important element of military supply transportation is concealment, especially during war preparations and warfare periods. By introducing entropy to calculate the transportation concealment degree, we investigate the issue about concealed milita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,378 Views
18 Pages

7 June 2018

During the assembly process, there are inevitable variations and noise factors in the material properties, process parameters and screening scheme, which may affect the quality of the product. Using the stress-strength model, an evaluated screening s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,033 Views
23 Pages

7 June 2018

The mechanical fault diagnosis results of the high voltage circuit breakers (HVCBs) are mainly determined by the feature vector and classifier used. In order to obtain more remarkable characteristics of signals and a robust classifier which is suitab...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,048 Views
8 Pages

6 June 2018

The aim of this paper is to study the question of whether or not equilibrium states exist in open quantum systems that are embedded in at least two environments and are described by a non-Hermitian Hamilton operator H . The eigenfunctions of H ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coherence in Open Quantum Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
10,917 Views
25 Pages

6 June 2018

When it is acknowledged that all candidate parameterised statistical models are misspecified relative to the data generating process, the decision maker (DM) must currently concern themselves with inference for the parameter value minimising the Kull...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Foundations of Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,026 Views
54 Pages

6 June 2018

This article is a detailed history of the Gibbs paradox, with philosophical morals. It purports to explain the origins of the paradox, to describe and criticize solutions of the paradox from the early times to the present, to use the history of stati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gibbs Paradox 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,196 Views
14 Pages

A Novel Boolean Kernels Family for Categorical Data

  • Mirko Polato,
  • Ivano Lauriola and
  • Fabio Aiolli

6 June 2018

Kernel based classifiers, such as SVM, are considered state-of-the-art algorithms and are widely used on many classification tasks. However, this kind of methods are hardly interpretable and for this reason they are often considered as black-box mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 26th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN 2017)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,414 Views
13 Pages

6 June 2018

In this paper, a novel image encryption scheme is proposed for the secure transmission of image data. A self-synchronous chaotic stream cipher is designed with the purpose of resisting active attack and ensures the limited error propagation of image...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Dynamic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,479 Views
16 Pages

Truncated Power-Normal Distribution with Application to Non-Negative Measurements

  • Nabor O. Castillo,
  • Diego I. Gallardo,
  • Heleno Bolfarine and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

5 June 2018

This paper focuses on studying a truncated positive version of the power-normal (PN) model considered in Durrans (1992). The truncation point is considered to be zero so that the resulting model is an extension of the half normal distribution. Some p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,665 Views
9 Pages

5 June 2018

Carbon markets provide a market-based way to reduce climate pollution. Subject to general market regulations, the major existing emission trading markets present complex characteristics. This paper analyzes the complexity of carbon market by using th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluation of Systems’ Irregularity and Complexity: Sample Entropy, Its Derivatives, and Their Applications across Scales and Disciplines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,378 Views
17 Pages

Solutions of a Two-Particle Interacting Quantum Walk

  • Alessandro Bisio,
  • Giacomo Mauro D’Ariano,
  • Nicola Mosco,
  • Paolo Perinotti and
  • Alessandro Tosini

5 June 2018

We study the solutions of an interacting Fermionic cellular automaton which is the analogue of the Thirring model with both space and time discrete. We present a derivation of the two-particle solutions of the automaton recently in the literature, wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Information and Foundations)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,410 Views
20 Pages

5 June 2018

In this paper, we present a review of recent developments on the κ -deformed statistical mechanics in the framework of the information geometry. Three different geometric structures are introduced in the κ -formalism which are obt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theoretical Aspect of Nonlinear Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,192 Views
16 Pages

Complexity Analysis of Global Temperature Time Series

  • António M. Lopes and
  • J. A. Tenreiro Machado

5 June 2018

Climate has complex dynamics due to the plethora of phenomena underlying its evolution. These characteristics pose challenges to conducting solid quantitative analysis and reaching assertive conclusions. In this paper, the global temperature time ser...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Law Behaviour in Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,720 Views
11 Pages

5 June 2018

Kullback–Leibler divergence (KLD) is a type of extended mutual entropy, which is used as a measure of information gain when transferring from a prior distribution to a posterior distribution. In this study, KLD is applied to the thermodynamic a...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,970 Views
22 Pages

Factoid Question Answering with Distant Supervision

  • Hongzhi Zhang,
  • Xiao Liang,
  • Guangluan Xu,
  • Kun Fu,
  • Feng Li and
  • Tinglei Huang

5 June 2018

Automatic question answering (QA), which can greatly facilitate the access to information, is an important task in artificial intelligence. Recent years have witnessed the development of QA methods based on deep learning. However, a great amount of d...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Commentary
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,928 Views
5 Pages

5 June 2018

We discuss a common misconception regarding the de Broglie–Bohm (dBB) theory; namely, that it not only assigns a position to each quantum object but also contains the momenta as “hidden variables”. Sometimes this alleged property of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emergent Quantum Mechanics – David Bohm Centennial Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,308 Views
13 Pages

4 June 2018

Recent developments in solar thermal systems have aroused considerable interest in several countries with high solar potential. One of the most promising solar driven technologies is the solar thermal dish-Stirling system. One of the main issues of t...

(This article belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,833 Views
16 Pages

4 June 2018

Eco-cognitive computationalism sees computation in context, exploiting the ideas developed in those projects that have originated the recent views on embodied, situated, and distributed cognition. Turing’s original intellectual perspective has...

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