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Entropy, Volume 22, Issue 2

February 2020 - 131 articles

Cover Story: In recent years, analysis of the organization and performance of football teams has undergone a methodological revolution, thanks to emergent technologies recording player activity during a match. Nowadays, it is possible to measure all events occurring on the pitch (passes, interceptions, shots, goals, fouls, etc.) with precise temporal and spatial coordinates. In this paper, we investigated the spatial and temporal entropies of football teams, focusing on the locations of all passes made during a match and the evolution of the organization of the corresponding passing networks. The analysis of football teams as time-evolving networks reveals interesting insights about what network parameters behave more/less randomly and, therefore, could be used as indicators for the prediction of future events. View this paper.
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Articles (131)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,680 Views
11 Pages

24 February 2020

The nonthermal diffusion effects on the dispersion equations of ion-acoustic space-charge wave (SCW) in a nonthermal plasma column composed of nonthermal turbulent electrons and cold ions are investigated based on the analysis of normal modes and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,470 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2020

Optimal experimental design (OED) is of great significance in efficient Bayesian inversion. A popular choice of OED methods is based on maximizing the expected information gain (EIG), where expensive likelihood functions are typically involved. To re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
263 Citations
17,291 Views
23 Pages

24 February 2020

The type of criterion weight can be distinguished according to different decision methods. Subjective weights are given by decision makers based on their knowledge, experience, expertise, and other factors. Objective weights are obtained through mult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,277 Views
10 Pages

(1,0)-Super Solutions of (k,s)-CNF Formula

  • Zufeng Fu,
  • Daoyun Xu and
  • Yongping Wang

23 February 2020

A (1,0)-super solution is a satisfying assignment such that if the value of any one variable is flipped to the opposite value, the new assignment is still a satisfying assignment. Namely, every clause must contain at least two satisfied literals. Bec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,765 Views
19 Pages

Entropy Generation Methodology for Defect Analysis of Electronic and Mechanical Components—A Review

  • Miao Cai,
  • Peng Cui,
  • Yikang Qin,
  • Daoshuang Geng,
  • Qiqin Wei,
  • Xiyou Wang,
  • Daoguo Yang and
  • Guoqi Zhang

23 February 2020

Understanding the defect characterization of electronic and mechanical components is a crucial step in diagnosing component lifetime. Technologies for determining reliability, such as thermal modeling, cohesion modeling, statistical distribution, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,311 Views
14 Pages

Phylogenetic Analysis of HIV-1 Genomes Based on the Position-Weighted K-mers Method

  • Yuanlin Ma,
  • Zuguo Yu,
  • Runbin Tang,
  • Xianhua Xie,
  • Guosheng Han and
  • Vo V. Anh

23 February 2020

HIV-1 viruses, which are predominant in the family of HIV viruses, have strong pathogenicity and infectivity. They can evolve into many different variants in a very short time. In this study, we propose a new and effective alignment-free method for t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,779 Views
16 Pages

22 February 2020

We discuss a phase transition in spin glass models that have been rarely considered in the past, namely, the phase transition that may take place when two real replicas are forced to be at a larger distance (i.e., at a smaller overlap) than the typic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,023 Views
14 Pages

Self-Propulsion Enhances Polymerization

  • Maximino Aldana,
  • Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera and
  • Martín Zumaya

22 February 2020

Self-assembly is a spontaneous process through which macroscopic structures are formed from basic microscopic constituents (e.g., molecules or colloids). By contrast, the formation of large biological molecules inside the cell (such as proteins or nu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,821 Views
19 Pages

22 February 2020

Increasingly, popular online museums have significantly changed the way people acquire cultural knowledge. These online museums have been generating abundant amounts of cultural relics data. In recent years, researchers have used deep learning models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
115 Citations
8,899 Views
19 Pages

Influential Nodes Identification in Complex Networks via Information Entropy

  • Chungu Guo,
  • Liangwei Yang,
  • Xiao Chen,
  • Duanbing Chen,
  • Hui Gao and
  • Jing Ma

21 February 2020

Identifying a set of influential nodes is an important topic in complex networks which plays a crucial role in many applications, such as market advertising, rumor controlling, and predicting valuable scientific publications. In regard to this, resea...

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