Entropy

Dynamics in Biological and Social Networks, Second Edition

edited by Luiz Henrique Alves Monteiro

submission deadline 10 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1529 | Submission Open

Keywords: agent-based model; cellular automata; complex network; dynamical systems; entropy measures; game theory; social media; social network; systems biology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Insight into Entropy

edited by

Philip Broadbridge

and

Tony C. Scott

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 10 articles | Viewed by 15130 | Submission Open

Keywords: Everett–Hirschman entropy; Von Neumann entropy; Shannon entropy; Rényi entropy; Tsallis entropy; quantum theory; nonlinear optics; logarithmic Schrödinger equation; superfluids; superconductors; emergent gravity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Information Theory and Entropy Methods in Security Information Processing and Its Applications

edited by

Carlos M. Travieso-González

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2622 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; entropy methods; information security and data privacy; anomaly detection; biometric systems; cryptography; network security; machine learning in security; quantum information processing; cybersecurity; stochastic processes in security; secure communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Uncertainty-Aware Feature Learning and Anomaly Detection for Unlabeled Complex Data

edited by

Zhong Yuan

,

Binbin Sang

and Keyu Liu

submission deadline 17 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1552 | Submission Open

Keywords: uncertainty modeling; uncertain information processing; feature selection; anomaly/outlier detection; granular computing; rough sets; fuzzy sets; entropy; high-dimensional data; representation learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

The Landauer Principle in Physics, Biophysics, Engineering and Computer Science: From Foundations of Thermodynamics to Computer Engineering

edited by

Edward Bormashenko

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7551 | Submission Open

Keywords: Landauer principle; entropy; information; the second law of thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Entropy Method for Decision Making with Uncertainty, 2nd Edition

edited by

Małgorzata Przybyła-Kasperek

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1585 | Submission Open

Keywords: rough sets; fuzzy sets; expert systems; distributed learning; multi-criteria decision making (MCDM); game theory; decision making; uncertainty; decision support systems; information fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Advances in IoT Security and Privacy

edited by

Samsul Huda

and Yasuyuki Nogami

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1079 | Submission Open

Keywords: information-theoretic security; entropy-based privacy; uncertainty quantification in IoT; lightweight cryptography with entropic guarantees; stochastic intrusion detection; information flow in blockchain-IoT systems; entropy-driven trust models; secure architectures via mutual information bounds

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Thermodynamic Speed Limits in Quantum and Classical Systems

edited by Erez Aghion and

Swetamber P. Das

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 501 | Submission Open

Keywords: uncertainty relations; information thermodynamics; optimal control; open quantum and classical

(This special issue belongs to the Section Non-equilibrium Phenomena)

From Order to Disorder: Superfluidity, Stochastic Processes, and the Dynamics of Life—Dedicated to Professor Peter McClintock on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday

edited by Aneta Stefanovska, Philip C.E. Stamp,

Mark Dykman

,

Laszlo B. Kish

and Ladislav Skrbek

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 12 articles | Viewed by 19681 | Submission Open

Keywords: superfluid vortices and turbulence; quantum and classical fluctuations; wave turbulence; vortex nucleation and effective mass; 2D superfluids and Kosterlitz–Thouless physics; dissipation in quantum systems; rare events in stochastic processes; quantum turbulence and cavitation; entropy production in nonequilibrium systems; deterministic and stochastic dynamics; biological dynamics and multiscale interactions; interactions and couplings in dynamical systems; biological and artificial ion channels; physics of life; biological oscillators; stochastic resonance; vibrational resonance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Quantum Measurement

edited by Marcin Wieśniak

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8023 | Submission Open

Keywords: foundations of physics; quantum measurement; quantum collapse; non-demolishing quantum measurements; emergence of classicality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information Processing in Complex Biological Systems

edited by

Young-Seok Choi

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6175 | 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)

Dissipative Physical Dynamics

edited by Katalin Mária Gambár

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6020 | 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)

Entropy, Statistical Evidence, and Scientific Inference: Evidence Functions in Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition

edited by

Brian Dennis

,

Mark L. Taper

and

Jose Miguel Ponciano

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3551 | 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)

Wireless Physical Layer Security Toward 6G

edited by Hui-Ming Wang, Feng Shu,

Ning Xie

, Bin Dai and

Na Li

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2673 | Submission Open

Keywords: wireless physical layer security; physical layer secrecy transmission; physical layer key agreement; physical layer authentication; physical layer security for ISAC; AI driven physical layer security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing, 4th Edition

edited by

Zoran H. Perić

,

Vladimir Despotovic

,

Zoran Ognjanović

, Marko S. Andjelković and

Vlado Delić

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1973 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; neural networks; compression; entropy coding; speech and image processing; biomedical signal processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)

Modified Gravity: From Black Hole Entropy to Modern Cosmology

edited by

Kazuharu Bamba

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1604 | 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)

Complexity of AI

edited by Siew Ann Cheong, Ling Feng and

Lock Yue Chew

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1431 | Submission Open

Keywords: complexity science; artificial intelligence; neural networks; statistical physics; phase transitions; dynamical systems; self-organization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Nanothermodynamics: From Theory to Applications

edited by

Dick Bedeaux

and

Signe Kjelstrup

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 853 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanothermodynamics; non-equilibrium thermodynamics; subdivision potential; small system thermodynamics; Hill's thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Causal Representation Learning with Its Applications

edited by

Kuang Zhou

and

Xiaoding Wang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 792 | Submission Open

Keywords: causal representation learning; causal discovery; invariant representations; transfer learning; complex networks; domain adaptation; complex systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

The Role of Entropy in Quantum Computation and Algorithms

edited by

Qisheng Wang

, Kean Chen and

Masahito Hayashi

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 616 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum entropy; quantum information theory; quantum resource theory; quantum property testing; quantum algorithms; quantum machine learning; quantum complexity; quantum communication; quantum cryptography; quantum error correction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information Processing in Neuromorphic Systems

edited by

Craig M. Vineyard

and

Stephen J. Verzi

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 512 | Submission Open

Keywords: neuromorphic computing; neuromorphic architectures; neuromorphic engineering; neuromorphic systems; neuron-based computation; neural-inspired computation; artificial neurons; complex neurology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Nonlinear Oscillator Synchronization and Multi-Agent Cooperative Control on Compact Manifolds and Complex Networks

edited by Eric Butcher and Sabina Adhikari

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 322 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-agent cooperative control; compact manifolds; nonlinear oscillator synchronization; complex networks; time delay; fractional-order dynamics; higher-order interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Thermal Transport in Nanoscale Systems

edited by Shunda Chen

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 306 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanoscale thermal transport; non-equilibrium thermodynamics; phonon and electron transport; thermal rectification and control; interfaces and disorder; low-dimensional and complex materials; atomistic and first-principles simulations; machine learning for materials; thermoelectric and quantum materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Symbolic Dynamics in Biological Signal Processing

edited by

Timo Bröhl

and

Bulcsú Sándor

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 306 | Submission Open

Keywords: symbolic dynamics; multivariate time series analysis; biological signal processing; brain dynamics; cardiac dynamics; temporal irreversibility; complexity measures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)

Probability Theory and Quantum Information, 2nd Edition

edited by Bin Yan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 278 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information; probability theory; quantum probabilities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Molecular Modeling and Simulation

edited by

Timothy Moore

and

Ashley Guo

submission deadline 3 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 252 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy calculation; molecular simulation; information theory; free energy methods; enhanced sampling; self-assembly; machine learning; coarse-graining; thermodynamics; statistical mechanics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Goal-Oriented Communication: Freshness, Semantics, and Beyond

edited by Xingran Chen and Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

submission deadline 8 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2721 | Submission Open

Keywords: goal-oriented communications; age of information; semantics of information; estimation; distributed learning; IoT; 6G

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Entropy-Based Fault Diagnosis: From Theory to Applications

edited by

Xiaoan Yan

, Ling Xiang,

Jinde Zheng

and

Zhi-Xin Yang

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14317 | Submission Open

Keywords: information entropy; sample entropy; permutation entropy; fuzzy entropy; dispersion entropy; hierarchical entropy; multiscale entropy; condition monitoring; fault diagnosis; fault prognostics; anomaly detection; feature extraction; machinery equipment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)

Causal Graphical Models and Their Applications, 2nd Edition

edited by Luis Enrique Sucar and Ruben Sanchez-Romero

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4388 | Submission Open

Keywords: causal graphical models; causal reasoning; causal discovery; applications of causal models

Phase Transitions in Complex and Nonequilibrium Systems: From Criticality to Topological and Active Matter

edited by Edson Denis Leonel, Diego Fregolent Mendes de Oliveira and

Chris G. Antonopoulos

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 1019 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonequilibrium phase transitions; topological phase transitions; self-organized criticality; collective behavior; critical phenomena

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Information Dynamics and Control in Generative Cognitive Systems

edited by

Shlomo Dubnov

, Stas Tiomkin and

Stefan Lattner

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 430 | Submission Open

Keywords: information dynamics ; predictive information ; directed information ; generative systems ; interactive systems ; cognitive modeling ; control-oriented information ; temporal information measures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Mathematical Modeling in Systems Biology, 2nd Edition

edited by

Pavel Kraikivski

submission deadline 17 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2034 | Submission Open

Keywords: mathematical modeling; biological systems; computational methods; network dynamics; systems-oriented approaches; data analysis tools; regulatory networks; complex biological mechanisms; mechanistic approaches

(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)

Quantum Nonstationary Systems—Second Edition

edited by

Viktor Dodonov

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7514 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum nonstationary systems; quantum dissipative systems; quantum entanglement; dynamics of decoherence and thermalization; dynamical Casimir effect; time-dependent quantum systems; time-dependent phenomena; quantum speed limits; energy-time uncertainty relations; quantum heat engines

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum and Classical Mpemba Effects: From Theoretical Models to Practical Applications

edited by

Jixuan Hou

and Zhiyue Lu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4019 | Submission Open

Keywords: Mpemba effect; nonequilibrium dynamics; anomalous relaxation; cooling protocols; quantum Mpemba effect; quantum thermal quench; Markovian dynamics; strong Mpemba effect; open quantum systems; non-equilibrium quantum dynamics; non-Markovian quantum dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Synergy and Redundancy Measures: Theory and Applications to Characterize Complex Systems, Build Models, and Shape Neural Network Representations

edited by

Daniel Chicharro

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1745 | Submission Open

Keywords: mutual information; synergy; redundancy; unique information; neural networks; disentanglement; feature extraction; representation learning; partial information decomposition; fairness

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Information and Coding Theory for Distributed Learning, Storage, Scheduling, and Security

edited by Chi Wan Sung and

Kenneth Shum

submission deadline 22 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3936 | Submission Open

Keywords: coded computing; coded caching; coded federated learning; distributed machine learning; distributed storage systems; coding for insertion/deletion/edit channel; protocol sequence; secret sharing; secure multiparty computation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Complexity Theories of Cities: Their Media and Their Messages

edited by

Juval Portugali

and Egbert Stolk

submission deadline 24 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 386 | Submission Open

Keywords: variety of complexities; mediated complexity; cross-domain complexity; analogical vs. incongruity reasoning; complex adaptive systems; synergetics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Geometric Machine Learning

edited by Pietro Giuseppe Fré

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 297 | Submission Open

Keywords: classification tasks; categorical perception; Riemannian geometry of network layers; covariance; equivariance; information geometry and geometrical thermodynamics; Lie groups and Lie algebras in machine learning; discrete groups and graph embeddings; tessellations of data manifolds; dimensional reduction; symmetric spaces; diffusion processes on Riemannian manifolds and on graphs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Convergence Rates for Markov Chains

edited by

Xiequan Fan

submission deadline 28 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 780 | Submission Open

Keywords: Markov chains; central limit theorems for Markov chains; convergence rates; asymptotic behaviour for Markov chains; Markov chains involved with stochastic differential equations; branching random walks; branching processes with or without random media

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

SUURI of Information Geometry: Dedicated to SUURI Engineer Professor Shun’ichi Amari on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday

edited by

Antonio M. Scarfone

and

Tatsuaki Wada

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11325 | Submission Open

Keywords: information geometry; α-geometry; information theory; machine learning; neural network; statistics inference; geometro-thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Classical and Quantum Networks: Theory, Modeling and Optimization, 2nd Edition

edited by

Avishy Carmi

and

Eliahu Cohen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5655 | Submission Open

Keywords: network dynamics; network topology; complex networks; percolation; quantum entanglement; quantum correlations; quantum interconnect; quantum walks; quantum key distribution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

New Advances in Quantum Communications and Quantum Computing

edited by Mariella Minder and David Lucas

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3713 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum key distribution; quantum computing; quantum networks; quantum communication infrastructure; postquantum cryptography; quantum algorithms; quantum information theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Advances in Time Series Analysis: Methods, Applications and Emerging Trends

edited by

Cun Ji

and

Bo Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3636 | Submission Open

Keywords: data mining; time series; entropy; feature extraction; classification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)

Shortcut to Adiabaticity in Classical and Quantum Systems

edited by Jing Li and

Andreas Ruschhaupt

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3632 | Submission Open

Keywords: shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) schemes; enhanced-STA schemes; experimental implementation of STA schemes; machine learning for quantum control; atomic state population transfer; molecular manipulation; manipulation of external fields; quantum heat engines; quantum thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Machine Learning

edited by Shenggen Zheng

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3353 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum algorithms; quantum computational complexity; quantum machine learning; quantum circuit optimization; quantum circuit design automation; NISQ algorithms; variational quantum algorithms; quantum finite automata; quantum information processing; resource-efficient quantum computation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum Information—Dedicated to Professor Gilles Brassard on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

edited by Jian-Wei Pan, Artur Ekert, Barry C. Sanders and Feihu Xu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1845 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum communication; quantum algorithms; quantum repeaters; quantum network; quantum foundations; quantum random number generation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Advances in Bayesian Statistics

edited by

Weining Shen

, Weixuan Zhu and Juan Miguel Marin

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1825 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bayesian machine learning; empirical bayes; approximate Bayesian computation; Bayesian optimization; hierarchical models; variational inference; Bayesian model selection; Gaussian processes; posterior approximation; Bayesian nonparametrics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

Fundamentals and Applications of Quantum Information and Quantum Optics

edited by Shahaf Asban and

Ángel S. Sanz

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1789 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information processing; quantum optics; quantum thermodynamics; quantum coherence; entanglement; non-equilibrium quantum systems; quantum interferometry; quantum energetics; quantum algorithms; open quantum systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Analysis of Critical Behavior in Complex Systems

edited by

Gaogao Dong

and Duxin Chen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1639 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex system; complex networks; hypergraph network; census model; GNN; AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Entropy, Exergy Analysis and Optimization for Refrigeration and Heat Pump Systems

edited by

Tatiana Morosuk

and

Muhammad Sultan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1052 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy analysis; entropy analysis; exergy analysis; thermodynamic cycle; heat pump; refrigeration machine; irreversibility; exergy destruction; efficiency; optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

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