Entropy, Volume 25, Issue 3

Gwet’s first-order agreement coefficient (AC1) is widely used to assess the agreement between raters. This paper proposes several asymptotic statistics for a homogeneity test of stratified AC1 in large sample sizes. These statistics may have un...

The order reduction method is an important approach to optimize higher-order binary Markov random fields (HoMRFs), which are widely used in information theory, machine learning and image analysis. It transforms an HoMRF into an equivalent and easier...

Entropies are useful measures of variation. However, explicit expressions for entropies available in the literature are limited. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive collection of explicit expressions for four of the most common entropies for ov...

A new approach is proposed for lossless raster image compression employing interpolative coding. A new multifunction prediction scheme is presented first. Then, interpolative coding, which has not been applied frequently for image compression, is exp...

Cities are critical to a sustainable future for our planet; still, the construction and operation of cities rely on intensive resource and energy use and transformation, leading to the generation of waste, effluents, and pollution, representing negat...

Support vector machine (SVM) is a widely used and effective classifier. Its efficiency and accuracy mainly depend on the exceptional feature subset and optimal parameters. In this paper, a new feature selection method and an improved particle swarm o...

In this paper, we propose an innovative approach to improve the performance of an Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). The method is based on the design of a Possibilistic Fingerprint Quality Assessment (PFQA) filter where ground truth...

In the absence of work, the exchange of heat of a sample of matter corresponds to the change of its internal energy, given by the kinetic energy of random translational motion of all its constituent atoms or molecules relative to the center of mass o...

Central to an understanding of the physical nature of biosystems is an apprehension of their ability to control entropy dynamics in their environment. To achieve ongoing stability and survival, living systems must adaptively respond to incoming infor...

The paper is dedicated to modeling electricity spot prices and pricing forward contracts on energy markets. The underlying dynamics of electricity spot prices is governed by a stochastic mean reverting diffusion with jumps having mixed-exponential di...