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Statistical Methods for Modeling High-Dimensional and Complex Data: Second Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8174 | Submission Open
Keywords: model selection; spatiotemporal modeling; cluster analysis; high-dimensional statistics; data mining; multiple change-point detection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Causal Inference in Recommender Systems
edited by Fuli Feng and Xu Chen
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7815 | Submission Open
Keywords: recommendation; causal inference; inference retrieval; ranking; information theory; information bottleneck; representation learning; counterfactual explanation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Informational Coordinative and Teleological Control of Distributed and Multi Agent Systems
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2480 | Submission Open
Keywords: distributed system; multi agent system; informational control; uncertainty; entropy criterions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Thermal Analysis and Thermodynamic Analysis for Advanced New Energy Systems
edited by Zeshao Chen and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2465 | Submission Open
Keywords: new energy system; solar energy; wind power; hydrogen production; biomass energy; geothermal energy; nuclear energy; energy storage; thermodynamic analysis; thermal analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Nonlocality and Entanglement in Quantum Networks
edited by and Xue Yang
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2273 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum networks; quantum entanglement; quantum nonlocality; quantum network protocols; nonlocal game on quantum networks; quantum network communication; quantum secure applications on quantum networks; experimental techniques on quantum networks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Entanglement Entropy in Quantum Field Theory
edited by Olalla Castro-Alvaredo and David X. Horvath
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2048 | Submission Open
Keywords: entanglement measures; quantum field theory; conformal field theory; quantum spin chains; holography; symmetry; numerics; exact results
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Explaining Economic and Social Science Phenomena Through Physical Models, Second Edition submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1923 | Submission Open
Keywords: entropy and fisher information; quantum games; econophysics; decision making/analysis; quantum market game; quantum-like models; social science; quantum finances
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Task-Oriented Communications in Industrial IoT: Age of Information and Beyond
edited by Jie Cao, Xin Xie and Zhongxiang Wei
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1815 | Submission Open
Keywords: industrial IoT; Age of Information; task-oriented communications; real-time communication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Entropy in Machine Learning Applications, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1420 | Submission Open
Keywords: knowledge graph; data correlation; differential expression; long short-term memory; semantic disambiguation; advertising vocabulary; entity relationship extraction; semi-supervised learning; cross-entropy loss; semantic entropy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Secure Network Ecosystems in the Quantum Era
edited by Yuan Cao and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 242 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum networks; quantum communication; quantum key distribution; entanglement generation and distribution; quantum secure direct communication; quantum repeaters and switches; quantum machine learning; quantum algorithms and applications; optical network security; IoT security; satellite network security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Entropy, Statistical Evidence, and Scientific Inference: Evidence Functions in Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 157 | Submission Open
Keywords: entropy; evidential statistics; evidence; hypothesis testing; information theory; Kullback– Leibler discrepancy; model misspecification; model selection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Simulation of Open Quantum Systems
edited by Marco Cattaneo and
submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4509 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum simulation; open quantum systems; collision models; variational quantum methods; Markovian quantum dynamics; quantum algorithms; classical simulation of quantum systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Ordinal Patterns-Based Tools and Their Applications
edited by
submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3876 | Submission Open
Keywords: permutation entropy; multiscale permutation entropy; ordinal pattern-based quantifiers; multiscale ordinal pattern-based quantifiers; interdisciplinary applications; complexity measures; classification and discrimination tasks; multivariate time series analysis; ordinal pattern-based methodologies and machine learning; ordinal symbolic mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Delay-Doppler Domain Communications for Future Wireless Networks 2nd Edition
edited by , Qin Tao, and Han Yu
submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 658 | Submission Open
Keywords: delay-Doppler; orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS); wireless communications; waveform design; performance analysis; channel modeling; MIMO technology; channel coding; transceiver designs
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Exploring the Horizon of Practical Utility in Near-Term Quantum Computing
edited by Daiwei Zhu, Jason Iaconis and Torin F. Stetina
submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 10439 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum error mitigation; quantum machine learning; near-term quantum computers; quantum algorithms; variational algorithms; heuristic algorithms; practical quantum advantages; quantum-inspired algorithms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Advances in Probabilistic Machine Learning
edited by Martin Trapp and
submission deadline 22 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3618 | Submission Open
Keywords: probabilistic machine learning; approximate Bayesian inference; variational inference; tractable probabilistic inference; Bayesian deep learning; probabilistic circuits; uncertainty quantification
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Quantum Foundations: 100 Years of Born’s Rule
edited by
submission deadline 25 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3737 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum foundations; Born rule; probability in quantum mechanics; quantum measurement theory; quantum statistical mechanics; interpretations of the wave function
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Heat and Mass Transfer and Interface Behavior of Fluid
edited by Li Duan, , and Zhijun Ye
submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 308 | Submission Open
Keywords: entropy; convection; heat and mass transfer; interface dynamics; phase change; Marangoni migration; diffusion; instability; nonlinear transition; chaos; turbulence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Recent Advances in High Entropy Alloys
edited by Hui Xu and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5505 | Submission Open
Keywords: high-entropy alloys/materials; medium-entropy alloy/materials; alloy design; synthesis methods; magnetic properties; mechanical properties; electrocatalysis; irradiation; microstructure; modeling and simulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information II
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4744 | Submission Open
Keywords: information systems; neural networks  ; information theory; complexity theory; statistical physics; complex networks; complexity and entropy in AI; data-driven modelling; machine learning and deep learning; time-series analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Modified Gravity: From Black Holes Entropy to Current Cosmology, 4th Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4211 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum aspects of black holes; evaporation; thermodynamics; black hole entropy; modified theories of gravity; dark energy; inflationary cosmology; observational cosmology; physics in the early universe; astrophysics of compact objects
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)
Computational Thermodynamics and Its Applications
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4022 | Submission Open
Keywords: computational thermodynamics; Gibbs-energy models; complex equilibrium calculations; multi-component phase diagrams; advanced process modelling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Quantum Communication, Quantum Radar, and Quantum Cipher, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3241 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum stream cipher; quantum effect radar and lidar; application of two mode squeezed state to radar system in bad weather; quantum illumination and quantum reading by macroscopic qubit; quantum stream cipher; application of entangled coherent state; quantum entanglement theory for macroscopic qubit in non-ideal situation; holevo capacity and accessible information of optical communication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Communication Networks
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2616 | Submission Open
Keywords: space– air– ground– sea integrated networks; resource management; topology discovery; network access protocols; communication protocols; network deployment; UAV ad hoc networks; satellite communications; maritime communications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Information Processing in Complex Biological Systems
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1797 | Submission Open
Keywords: information theory; complex biological or adaptive systems; knowledge distillation; model compression; neural networks; information entropy; system optimization; computational efficiency; low-rank representations; resource-constrained computing; biological information processing; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Advances in Data Mining and Coding Theory for Data Compression submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1310 | Submission Open
Keywords: big data; network data; data mining; learning; clustering; community detection; data compression; machine learning; information science; coding theory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Dissipative Physical Dynamics
edited by Katalin Mária Gambár
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 601 | Submission Open
Keywords: dissipation; irreversibility; nonequilibrium processes; entropy; state reconstruction; classical and quantum transport; decoherence; material structure; cosmological model; electrical losses; electromagnetic wave absorption; thermalization; complex systems; coupled systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Coarse and Fine-Grained Aspects of Gravitational Entropy
edited by Juan F. Pedraza, Andrew Svesko and Manus R. Visser
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 252 | Submission Open
Keywords: gravitational entropy; black hole thermodynamics; entanglement entropy; entropy in holography
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)
Thermodynamic and Kinetic Equilibria of Complex Systems
edited by Mathieu Lazerges and Sylvain Marque
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 243 | Submission Open
Keywords: entropy; equilibrium; kinetics; thermodynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Bridging Bayesian and Information-Theoretic Approaches in Earth and Environmental System Modeling: Theory and Practical Applications
edited by , and Steven V. Weijs
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 238 | Submission Open
Keywords: Bayesian probability theory; Bayesian uncertainty assessment; Bayesian optimal design; information theory; Shannon entropy; algorithmic information theory; causal inference; model evaluation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Statistical Learning in Computational Neuroscience and Neural Coding
edited by Cristina Savin
submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 235 | Submission Open
Keywords: statistical learning; neural networks; neural coding; math of deep learning; multivariate probabilistic modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Time Series Analysis in Earthquake Complex Networks submission deadline 1 Sep 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 14762 | Submission Open
Keywords: complex systems; laboratory fracture and earthquake process models; nonlinear dynamics and machine learning; non-extensive statistical analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Entropy in Quantum Systems and Quantum Field Theory (QFT): Gravity, 3rd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 8 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2035 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum open systems and nonequilibrium quantum field theory; quantum fields background and particle creation; dissipative dynamics in QM and QFT; quantum entropies; noise; and fluctuations; coherence and decoherence in quantum systems; entanglement entropy in quantum field theory; nonequilibrium quantum processes in the early universe; Bekenstein-Hawking entropy; Ryu– Takayanagi entropy; holographic approaches; space time thermodynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
25 Years of Sample Entropy
edited by J Randall Moorman and
submission deadline 9 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2094 | Submission Open
Keywords: Shannon entropy; Kolmogorov– Sinai entropy; information theory; time series complexity; cross-entropy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Coding for Aeronautical Telemetry
edited by
submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4774 | Submission Open
Keywords: aeronautical mobile telemetry; error control coding; forward error correcting codes; physical layer security codes; space– time coding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Black Hole Information Problem: Challenges and Perspectives
edited by Qingyu Cai, Baocheng Zhang and
submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3412 | Submission Open
Keywords: black hole information paradox; Hawking radiation; page curve; quantum decoherence; AdS/CFT correspondence; holography; firewall; soft hair; quantum hair; memory of black holes; quantum error correction; quantum information theory; quantum final state projection; remnants; baby universe; wormholes; quantum tunneling; black hole interior; black hole volume; black hole collapse and evaporation; two-dimensional black holes; three-dimensional black holes; quantum gravity theory; analogue gravity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)
Quantum Information: Working Towards Applications
edited by , Kai Wen, Min Wang and Hai Wei
submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 15455 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum information; quantum computing; quantum communication; quantum sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions
edited by Susan M. Clark and Phil Richerme
submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4883 | Submission Open
Keywords: ion; quantum computing; quantum simulation; gate implementations; shuttling; noise mitigation; calibration; qudits; metastable states; bosonic degrees of freedom; open-system quantum dynamics; coherent operations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Risk Spillover and Transfer Entropy in Complex Financial Networks
edited by Longfeng Zhao, , Chun-Xiao Nie and Lin Chen
submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3480 | Submission Open
Keywords: risk spillover; systemic risk; complex financial networks; transfer entropy; interconnectedness; interdependencies; financial stability; risk management; regulatory policies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Information Hiding and Secret Sharing for New Carriers and Their Security Evaluation Methods
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2855 | Submission Open
Keywords: information hiding; secret image sharing; AI security; multimedia security; barcode
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Entropy: From Atoms to Complex Systems submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2433 | Submission Open
Keywords: entropy; entropy production; machine learning; Monte Carlo; molecular dynamics; fluctuation theorems; thermodynamics; statistical physics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
Aspects of Social Dynamics: Models and Concepts
edited by
submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2384 | Submission Open
Keywords: mathematical models; social systems; statistical physics; thermodynamics; mathematical biology; mathematical sociology; nonlinear dynamics; game theory; time series analysis; theory of networks; social sciences; animal societies; human societies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
Entropy Production in Partially Observed Systems
edited by Aishani Ghosal and
submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 277 | Submission Open
Keywords: dissipation estimation for partially observed systems; modeling partially observed systems; fluctuation theorem for systems with hidden degrees of freedom
(This special issue belongs to the Section Non-equilibrium Phenomena)
Complexity in Financial Networks
edited by , Brian Lucey, Xueyong Liu and Xinya Wang
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13993 | Submission Open
Keywords: financial network analysis; information spillover in financial systems; multilayer networks in finance; uncertainties in financial network
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Entropy-Based Applications in Sociophysics II submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 6480 | Submission Open
Keywords: opinion dynamics; votes; consensus; econophysics; networks; based agents models; phase transitions; equilibrium and non-equilibrium concepts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Coding and Algorithms for DNA-Based Data Storage Systems
edited by Olgiça Milenković and Jin Sima
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4306 | Submission Open
Keywords: coding theory; computational biology; DNA-based data storage; DNA synthesis and sequencing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Entropy, Artificial Intelligence and the Financial Markets
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2921 | Submission Open
Keywords: AI and financial innovations; AI and business information; AI and trading; AI and market forecasts; AI and risk analysis; AI and fintech; AI real estate information and pricing; AI and technical analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Information Theoretic Learning with Its Applications
edited by , , Vasileios Megalooikonomou and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2295 | Submission Open
Keywords: information theory; data science; supervised learning; unsupervised learning; data analysis techniques; machine learning applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Entropy Based Machine Learning Models submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2004 | Submission Open
Keywords: machine learning; entropy; mutual information; neural networks; Bayesian models; statistical mechanics; stochastic dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Gaussian Fields and Their Application in Computational Engineering and Mathematical Physics
edited by , Mark Girolami and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1692 | Submission Open
Keywords: Gaussian fields; probabilistic modeling; Bayesian inference; forecasting
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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