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Entropy, Volume 25, Issue 9

2023 September - 122 articles

Cover Story: Separating frequency hopping signals blindly raises the question of whether each frequency originates from an individual source or whether multiple frequencies are transmitted by the same source. In this work, carrier frequencies and DOAs are estimated for signals transmitted by stationary and spatially sparse sources observed over a Spatial Channel Model. These two estimates are paired to ascertain which source(s) transmit which frequency(ies), thus achieving blind source separation. In a multipath scenario, a signal transmitted by one source may appear to be coming from different directions, leading to erroneous DOA estimation. A filtering technique is developed to refine DOA estimates for sources whose intermittent activity follows a hidden Markov model. View this paper
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Articles (122)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,784 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2023

The inherent non-smoothness of the vibroimpact system leads to complex behaviors and a strong sensitivity to parameter changes. Unfortunately, uncertainties and errors in system parameters are inevitable in mechanical engineering. Therefore, investig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,624 Views
11 Pages

21 September 2023

Entropy-based and fractal-based metrics derived from heart rate variability (HRV) have enriched the way cardiovascular dynamics can be described in terms of complexity. The most commonly used multifractal testing, a method using q moments to explore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,099 Views
12 Pages

21 September 2023

The effects of nonextensive electrons on nonlinear ion acoustic waves in dusty negative ion plasmas with ion–dust collisions are investigated. Analytical results show that both solitary and shock waves are supported in this system. The wave pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,452 Views
18 Pages

A Quantum Model of Trust Calibration in Human–AI Interactions

  • Luisa Roeder,
  • Pamela Hoyte,
  • Johan van der Meer,
  • Lauren Fell,
  • Patrick Johnston,
  • Graham Kerr and
  • Peter Bruza

20 September 2023

This exploratory study investigates a human agent’s evolving judgements of reliability when interacting with an AI system. Two aims drove this investigation: (1) compare the predictive performance of quantum vs. Markov random walk models regard...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,118 Views
54 Pages

Quantum and Quantum-Inspired Stereographic K Nearest-Neighbour Clustering

  • Alonso Viladomat Jasso,
  • Ark Modi,
  • Roberto Ferrara,
  • Christian Deppe,
  • Janis Nötzel,
  • Fred Fung and
  • Maximilian Schädler

20 September 2023

Nearest-neighbour clustering is a simple yet powerful machine learning algorithm that finds natural application in the decoding of signals in classical optical-fibre communication systems. Quantum k-means clustering promises a speed-up over the class...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,377 Views
22 Pages

Community-Based Matrix Factorization (CBMF) Approach for Enhancing Quality of Recommendations

  • Srilatha Tokala,
  • Murali Krishna Enduri,
  • T. Jaya Lakshmi and
  • Hemlata Sharma

20 September 2023

Matrix factorization is a long-established method employed for analyzing and extracting valuable insight recommendations from complex networks containing user ratings. The execution time and computational resources demanded by these algorithms pose l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,191 Views
26 Pages

A New Truncated Lindley-Generated Family of Distributions: Properties, Regression Analysis, and Applications

  • Mohamed Hussein,
  • Gabriela M. Rodrigues,
  • Edwin M. M. Ortega,
  • Roberto Vila and
  • Howaida Elsayed

20 September 2023

We present the truncated Lindley-G (TLG) model, a novel class of probability distributions with an additional shape parameter, by composing a unit distribution called the truncated Lindley distribution with a parent distribution function G(x). The pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,641 Views
16 Pages

20 September 2023

A vehicular network embodies a specialized variant of wireless network systems, characterized by its capability to facilitate inter-vehicular communication and connectivity with the encompassing infrastructure. With the rapid development of wireless...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,118 Views
13 Pages

20 September 2023

We investigate the dynamics of a system composed of two different subsystems when subjected to different nonlinear Fokker–Planck equations by considering the H–theorem. We use the H–theorem to obtain the conditions required to estab...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,950 Views
11 Pages

20 September 2023

Counterfactual definiteness (CFD) means that if some property is measured in some context, then the outcome of the measurement would have been the same had this property been measured in a different context. A context includes all other measurements...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,179 Views
18 Pages

19 September 2023

Electromagnetic coils are indispensable components for energy conversion and transformation in various systems across industries. However, electromagnetic coil insulation failure occurs frequently, which can lead to serious consequences. To facilitat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,114 Views
51 Pages

Exact and Soft Successive Refinement of the Information Bottleneck

  • Hippolyte Charvin,
  • Nicola Catenacci Volpi and
  • Daniel Polani

19 September 2023

The information bottleneck (IB) framework formalises the essential requirement for efficient information processing systems to achieve an optimal balance between the complexity of their representation and the amount of information extracted about rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,513 Views
18 Pages

CLIP-Driven Prototype Network for Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation

  • Shi-Cheng Guo,
  • Shang-Kun Liu,
  • Jing-Yu Wang,
  • Wei-Min Zheng and
  • Cheng-Yu Jiang

18 September 2023

Recent research has shown that visual–text pretrained models perform well in traditional vision tasks. CLIP, as the most influential work, has garnered significant attention from researchers. Thanks to its excellent visual representation capabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,135 Views
12 Pages

The Intricacies of Sprott-B System with Fractional-Order Derivatives: Dynamical Analysis, Synchronization, and Circuit Implementation

  • Rending Lu,
  • Prasina Alexander,
  • Hayder Natiq,
  • Anitha Karthikeyan,
  • Sajad Jafari and
  • Jiri Petrzela

17 September 2023

Studying simple chaotic systems with fractional-order derivatives improves modeling accuracy, increases complexity, and enhances control capabilities and robustness against noise. This paper investigates the dynamics of the simple Sprott-B chaotic sy...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,068 Views
15 Pages

17 September 2023

In recent years, it has become clear that intrinsically disordered protein segments play diverse functional roles in many cellular processes, thus leading to a reassessment of the classical structure–function paradigm. One class of intrinsicall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,049 Views
20 Pages

17 September 2023

The House-Tree-Person (HTP) sketch test is a psychological analysis technique designed to assess the mental health status of test subjects. Nowadays, there are mature methods for the recognition of depression using the HTP sketch test. However, exist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,956 Views
17 Pages

17 September 2023

We study the probability of an undetected error for general q-ary codes. We give upper and lower bounds on this quantity, by the Linear Programming and the Polynomial methods, as a function of the length, size, and minimum distance. Sharper bounds ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,103 Views
18 Pages

17 September 2023

Realistic fluid models play an important role in computer graphics applications. However, efficiently reconstructing volumetric fluid flows from monocular videos remains challenging. In this work, we present a novel approach for reconstructing 3D flo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,333 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Edge Cache-Based Private Set Intersection Protocol via Lightweight Oblivious PRF

  • Jing Zhang,
  • Li Yang,
  • Yongli Tang,
  • Minglu Jin and
  • Shujing Wang

16 September 2023

With the rapid development of edge computing and the Internet of Things, the problem of information resource sharing can be effectively solved through multi-party collaboration, but the risk of data leakage is also increasing. To address the above is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,162 Views
9 Pages

Taxes, Inequality, and Equal Opportunities

  • José Roberto Iglesias,
  • Ben-Hur Francisco Cardoso and
  • Sebastián Gonçalves

16 September 2023

Extreme inequality represents a grave challenge for impoverished individuals and poses a threat to economic growth and stability. Despite the fulfillment of affirmative action measures aimed at promoting equal opportunities, they often prove inadequa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,101 Views
15 Pages

16 September 2023

A quantum particle constrained between two high potential barriers provides a paradigmatic example of a system sustaining quasi-bound (or resonance) states. When the system is prepared in one of such quasi-bound states, the wave function approximatel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,370 Views
10 Pages

16 September 2023

In this study, the security implications of utilizing the concept of entanglement in time in the quantum representation of a blockchain data structure are investigated. The analysis reveals that the fundamental idea underlying this representation rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,928 Views
21 Pages

16 September 2023

To improve the accuracy of short-term multi-energy load prediction models for integrated energy systems, the historical development law of the multi-energy loads must be considered. Moreover, understanding the complex coupling correlation of the diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,993 Views
17 Pages

On the Effect of Imperfect Reference Signal Phase Recovery on Performance of PSK System Influenced by TWDP Fading

  • Goran T. Djordjevic,
  • Dejan N. Milic,
  • Bata Vasic,
  • Jarosław Makal and
  • Bane Vasic

15 September 2023

We examine the effects of imperfect phase estimation of a reference signal on the bit error rate and mutual information over a communication channel influenced by fading and thermal noise. The Two-Wave Diffuse-Power (TWDP) model is utilized for stati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,345 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Clustering Method Based on Adjacent Grids Searching

  • Zhimeng Li,
  • Wen Zhong,
  • Weiwen Liao,
  • Jian Zhao,
  • Ming Yu and
  • Gaiyun He

15 September 2023

Clustering is used to analyze the intrinsic structure of a dataset based on the similarity of datapoints. Its widespread use, from image segmentation to object recognition and information retrieval, requires great robustness in the clustering process...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,661 Views
14 Pages

15 September 2023

For the point-to-point additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with an eavesdropper and feedback, it has already been shown that the secrecy capacity can be achieved by a secret key-based feedback scheme, where the channel feedback is used for s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,732 Views
15 Pages

Quasi-Hyperbolically Symmetric γ-Metric

  • Luis Herrera,
  • Alicia Di Prisco,
  • Justo Ospino and
  • Jaume Carot

15 September 2023

We carry out a systematic study on the motion of test particles in the region inner to the naked singularity of a quasi-hyperbolically symmetric γ-metric. The geodesic equations are written and analyzed in detail. The obtained results are contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,563 Views
15 Pages

15 September 2023

The Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, situated within China’s Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, significantly influence and are impacted by their air quality conditions. Rapid urbanization, high populatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,388 Views
19 Pages

Exploring Focus and Depth-Induced Saliency Detection for Light Field

  • Yani Zhang,
  • Fen Chen,
  • Zongju Peng,
  • Wenhui Zou and
  • Changhe Zhang

15 September 2023

An abundance of features in the light field has been demonstrated to be useful for saliency detection in complex scenes. However, bottom-up saliency detection models are limited in their ability to explore light field features. In this paper, we prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,994 Views
12 Pages

15 September 2023

This paper is concerned with event-triggered bounded consensus tracking for a class of second-order nonlinear multi-agent systems with uncertainties (MASs). Remarkably, the considered MASs allow multiple uncertainties, including unknown control coeff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,779 Views
14 Pages

14 September 2023

Blockchain integrates peer-to-peer networks, distributed consensus, smart contracts, cryptography, etc. It has the unique advantages of weak centralization, anti-tampering, traceability, openness, transparency, etc., and is widely used in various fie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,901 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2023

With the development of the smart grid, the traditional defect detection methods in transmission lines are gradually shifted to the combination of robots or drones and deep learning technology to realize the automatic detection of defects, avoiding t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,194 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2023

This study considers a wireless network where multiple nodes transmit status updates to a base station (BS) through a shared bandwidth-limited channel. Considering the random arrival of status updates, we measure the data freshness with the age of sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,383 Views
14 Pages

Network Analysis of Depression Using Magnetoencephalogram Based on Polynomial Kernel Granger Causality

  • Yijia Ma,
  • Jing Qian,
  • Qizhang Gu,
  • Wanyi Yi,
  • Wei Yan,
  • Jianxuan Yuan and
  • Jun Wang

13 September 2023

Depression is a psychiatric disorder characterized by anxiety, pessimism, and suicidal tendencies, which has serious impact on human’s life. In this paper, we use Granger causality index based on polynomial kernel as network node connectivity c...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,870 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2023

Phase diagrams are powerful tools to understand the multi-scale behaviour of complex systems. Yet, their determination requires in practice both experiments and computations, which quickly becomes a daunting task. Here, we propose a geometrical appro...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,116 Views
9 Pages

13 September 2023

It has been shown that three-dimensional self-assembled multicellular structures derived from human pluripotent stem cells show electrical activity similar to EEG. More recently, neurons were successfully embedded in digital game worlds. The biologic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,094 Views
15 Pages

12 September 2023

Many methods have been developed to study nonparametric function-on-function regression models. Nevertheless, there is a lack of model selection approach to the regression function as a functional function with functional covariate inputs. To study i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,166 Views
26 Pages

Stock Market Forecasting Based on Spatiotemporal Deep Learning

  • Yung-Chen Li,
  • Hsiao-Yun Huang,
  • Nan-Ping Yang and
  • Yi-Hung Kung

12 September 2023

This study introduces the Spacetimeformer model, a novel approach for predicting stock prices, leveraging the Transformer architecture with a time–space mechanism to capture both spatial and temporal interactions among stocks. Traditional Long&...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,205 Views
21 Pages

12 September 2023

This paper develops and optimizes a non-orthogonal and noncoherent multi-user massive single-input multiple-output (SIMO) framework, with the objective of enabling scalable ultra-reliable low-latency communications (sURLLC) in Beyond-5G (B5G)/6G wire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,889 Views
12 Pages

11 September 2023

Over the past three decades, describing the reality surrounding us using the language of complex networks has become very useful and therefore popular. One of the most important features, especially of real networks, is their complexity, which often...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,898 Views
31 Pages

11 September 2023

In this review, our goal is to design and test quantum-like algorithms for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in open systems to structure a human–machine team to be able to reach its maximum performance. Unlike the laboratory, in open systems, teams...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,536 Views
15 Pages

11 September 2023

In this paper, we study the system size expansion of a stochastic model for radiation-induced DNA damage kinetics and repair. In particular, we characterize both the macroscopic deterministic limit and the fluctuation around it. We further show that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,524 Views
18 Pages

Delegated Proof of Stake Consensus Mechanism Based on Community Discovery and Credit Incentive

  • Wangchun Li,
  • Xiaohong Deng,
  • Juan Liu,
  • Zhiwei Yu and
  • Xiaoping Lou

10 September 2023

Consensus algorithms are the core technology of a blockchain and directly affect the implementation and application of blockchain systems. Delegated proof of stake (DPoS) significantly reduces the time required for transaction verification by selecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,775 Views
23 Pages

9 September 2023

Horizontal eco-compensation lacks effective solutions for implementing comprehensive multifactor compensation and determining the compensation standard. To meet those needs, a method named entropy flat surface was proposed and put into practice. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,353 Views
16 Pages

9 September 2023

It is known that maximal entropy random walks and partition functions that count long paths on graphs tend to become localized near nodes with a high degree. Here, we revisit the simplest toy model of such a localization: a regular tree of degree p w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,564 Views
17 Pages

Reduced QED with Few Planes and Fermion Gap Generation

  • Eduard V. Gorbar,
  • Valery P. Gusynin and
  • Maxim R. Parymuda

9 September 2023

The formalism of reduced quantum electrodynamics is generalized to the case of heterostructures composed of a few atomically thick layers, and the corresponding effective (2+1)-dimensional gauge theory is formulated. This dimensionally reduced theory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,061 Views
33 Pages

9 September 2023

Contact fatigue is one of the most common failure forms of typical basic components such as bearings and gears. Accurate prediction of contact fatigue performance degradation trends in components is conducive to the scientific formulation of maintena...

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