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Entropy, Volume 22, Issue 6

June 2020 - 117 articles

Cover Story: The Coding Theorem Method (CTM) and Block Decomposition Method (BDM) have been serving the community as alternatives to the popular statistical lossless compression algorithms used to estimate Algorithmic (Kolmogorov) complexity. In this issue, the methods are reviewed and evaluated, and new directions explored. In particular, one direction is where methods of algorithmic information help deal with pressing questions in science related to causality. A new field has been introduced, called Algorithmic Information Dynamics (AID), an algorithmic probabilistic framework for causal discovery and causal analysis. AID helps solve inverse problems using computational tools drawn from algorithmic information based on algorithmic probability with CTM and BDM, enabling the emergence of AID thanks to their sensitivity to small changes suitable for perturbation analysis at the core of AID. View this paper
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Articles (117)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,774 Views
29 Pages

26 June 2020

This work is an extension of our earlier article, where a well-known integral representation of the logarithmic function was explored and was accompanied with demonstrations of its usefulness in obtaining compact, easily-calculable, exact formulas fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,970 Views
16 Pages

26 June 2020

A single-input-multiple-output (SIMO) channel is obtained from the use of an array of antennas in the receiver where the same information is transmitted through different sub-channels, and all received sequences are distinctly distorted versions of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,120 Views
25 Pages

Generalized Entropies, Variance and Applications

  • Abdolsaeed Toomaj and
  • Antonio Di Crescenzo

26 June 2020

The generalized cumulative residual entropy is a recently defined dispersion measure. In this paper, we obtain some further results for such a measure, in relation to the generalized cumulative residual entropy and the variance of random lifetimes. W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,522 Views
18 Pages

25 June 2020

The problem of determining the best achievable performance of arbitrary lossless compression algorithms is examined, when correlated side information is available at both the encoder and decoder. For arbitrary source-side information pairs, the condi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,545 Views
14 Pages

Optimization of the Casualties’ Treatment Process: Blended Military Experiment

  • Jan Hodický,
  • Dalibor Procházka,
  • Roman Jersák,
  • Petr Stodola and
  • Jan Drozd

25 June 2020

At the battalion level, NATO ROLE1 medical treatment command focuses on the provision of primary health care being the very first physician and higher medical equipment intervention for casualty treatments. ROLE1 has paramount importance in casualty...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,959 Views
20 Pages

Vibrations in CDFW

  • Daniel Soares de Alcantara,
  • Pedro Paulo Balestrassi,
  • José Henrique Freitas Gomes and
  • Carlos Alberto Carvalho Castro

24 June 2020

Continuous drive friction welding is a solid-state welding process that has been experimentally proven to be a fast and reliable method. This is a complex process; deformations in the viscosity of a material alter the friction between the surfaces of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,858 Views
17 Pages

Entropy-Based Estimation of Event-Related De/Synchronization in Motor Imagery Using Vector-Quantized Patterns

  • Luisa Velasquez-Martinez,
  • Julián Caicedo-Acosta and
  • Germán Castellanos-Dominguez

24 June 2020

Assessment of brain dynamics elicited by motor imagery (MI) tasks contributes to clinical and learning applications. In this regard, Event-Related Desynchronization/Synchronization (ERD/S) is computed from Electroencephalographic signals, which show...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,915 Views
20 Pages

24 June 2020

Solar energy is utilized in a combined ejector refrigeration system with an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) to produce a cooling effect and generate electrical power. This study aims at increasing the utilized share of the collected solar thermal energy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,207 Views
15 Pages

23 June 2020

The quality of a manufacturing process can be represented by the complex coupling relationship between quality characteristics, which is defined by the directed weighted network to evaluate the risk of the manufacturing process. A multistage manufact...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,857 Views
19 Pages

Optimized Piston Motion for an Alpha-Type Stirling Engine

  • Robin Masser,
  • Abdellah Khodja,
  • Mathias Scheunert,
  • Karsten Schwalbe,
  • Andreas Fischer,
  • Raphael Paul and
  • Karl Heinz Hoffmann

23 June 2020

The Stirling engine is one of the most promising devices for the recovery of waste heat. Its power output can be optimized by several means, in particular by an optimized piston motion. Here, we investigate its potential performance improvements in t...

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