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Entropy, Econophysics, and Complexity
edited by Alejandro Raúl Hernández-Montoya, Thomas Seligman, and Manan Vyas
submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 15749
Keywords: stylized facts; econophysics; sociophysics; entropy; financial markets; wealth distribution; inequality; financial crisis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Ising Model—100 Years Old and Still Attractive
edited by
submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3345
Keywords: spin models; statistical mechanics; Monte Carlo simulations; phase transitions; sociophysics; econophysics; artificial intelligence; machine learning; inference; computational biology; neuroscience; optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
Information and Coding Theory for Distributed Learning, Storage, Scheduling, and Security
edited by Chi Wan Sung and
submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 856
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)
Goal-Oriented Communication: Freshness, Semantics, and Beyond
edited by Xingran Chen and Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti
submission deadline 14 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1758 | 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)
Quantum and Classical Processes in Living Systems submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 12230 | Submission Open
Keywords: living systems; biological physics; life thermodynamics; complex systems biology; quantum biology; classical physics; quantum-classical dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Robustness and Resilience of Complex Networks
edited by Daniele Proverbio and Stefano Boccaletti
submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8931 | Submission Open
Keywords: networks; robustness; resilience; complex systems; systems biology; engineering; control theory; ecology; management science; information theory; bifurcations; non-equilibrium; early warning signals; tipping points; monotone systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Statistical Physics Approaches for Modeling Human Social Systems
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7009 | Submission Open
Keywords: complex systems; statistical mechanics; social systems; social networks; human dynamics; agent-based modeling; data-driven modeling; human mobility patterns; innovation diffusion; socioeconomic systems; dynamics on/of networks; political polarization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
Deciphering the Link Between Information and Interpretability in Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence
edited by Michael L. Mayo and Kevin R. Pilkiewicz
submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5875 | Submission Open
Keywords: deep learning; neural networks; interpretability; statistical analysis; information theory; feature analysis; object detection/tracking; generative artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Entanglement in Quantum Spin Systems submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5236 | Submission Open
Keywords: thermal and spin Hall transport; spin Hall effect; spintronics; longitudinal spin transport; quantum spin one-half and integer spin Heisenberg model; topological phase transition; quantum entanglement; magnon bands; stochastic differential equations and Fokker– Planck equations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Many-Body Systems
edited by Ruizhe Shen and Ching Hua Lee
submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 834 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum phase transitions; quantum criticality; quantum simulation; tensor networks; strongly correlated systems; topological order; non-equilibrium dynamics; cold-atom systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Dynamics in Biological and Social Networks
edited by Luiz Henrique Alves Monteiro
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10501 | 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)
Number Theoretic Methods in Statistics: Theory and Applications
edited by and Yongdao Zhou
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9059 | Submission Open
Keywords: number– theoretic methods; quasi-Monte methods; experimental design; representative points; statistical inference; data science
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Entropy-Centric Intelligent Computation with Graph: In Pursuit of Advanced Computational Theories, Methods, and Applications
edited by , , Junyang Chen and
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7290 | Submission Open
Keywords: entropy-centric intelligent computation with graph; entropy-centric intelligent computation theories; entropy-centric graph/network representation learning; entropy-centric graph applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Entropy in Classical and Quantum Information Theory with Applications submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6485 | Submission Open
Keywords: entropy; entropy measures; information theory; quantum information
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Non-Equilibrium Dynamics in Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases
edited by Sayak Ray and
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3114 | Submission Open
Keywords: non-equilibrium dynamics; driven-dissipative systems; ergodicity and thermalization; many-body localization; periodically driven systems; Kibble– Zurek dynamics; many-body quantum scar; non-Hermitian systems; exceptional point; quantum chaos and random matrix theory (RMT)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Non-equilibrium Phenomena)
Continuous Variables for Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Random Number Generators submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2766 | Submission Open
Keywords: continuous variables (CVs); quantum key distribution (QKD); quantum random number generator (QRNG); measurement-device-independent QKD (MDI-QKD); quantum cryptography; coherent detection; free-space and satellite CV-QKD; integrated photonics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Quantum Resource Theories: From Entanglement to Time Correlations and Measurement-Induced Noise
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2255 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum correlations; quantum Markov processes; quantum finite-state machines; quantum bounds; causality; complexity; hypothesis testing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Information-Theoretic Methods in Computational Neuroscience
edited by , John Beggs, and Jared Salisbury
submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 615 | Submission Open
Keywords: maximum entropy models; information theory; criticality in neural systems; information-theoretic quantities; Information-theoretic normative theories
(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)
Complexity and Evolution, 2nd Edition
edited by Francis Heylighen and
submission deadline 25 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11641 | Submission Open
Keywords: biological evolution; cognitive evolution; social evolution
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Insight into Entropy submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7770 | Submission Open
Keywords: Everett– Hirschman entropy; Von Neumann entropy; Shannon entropy; Ré nyi entropy; Tsallis entropy; quantum theory; nonlinear optics; logarithmic Schrö dinger equation; superfluids; superconductors; emergent gravity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Computational and Statistical Physics Approaches for Complex Systems and Social Phenomena, 3rd Edition submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7367 | Submission Open
Keywords: social phenomena; complex systems; Monte Carlo simulations; statistical physics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
Application of Information Theory to Computer Vision and Image Processing, 3rd Edition submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6518 | Submission Open
Keywords: information theory; entropy and coding theory (data compression; watermark; minimizing data loss; visual information in a more compact form; transmission; storage); computer vision (identify relevant features and patterns); machine vision (data analysis and understanding; segmentation; registration; denoising and restoration; object recognition; classification and tracking); cyber-physical systems; instrumentation; signal and image processing; measurements (3D spatial coordinates; redundancy; statistical properties); artificial intelligence; applications (navigation; surveillance; facial recognition; medicine; robotics; entertainment; and more)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Coding Theory and Its Applications
edited by Yauhen Yakimenka and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3688 | Submission Open
Keywords: coding theory; error-correcting codes; network coding; quantum codes; distributed storage; LDPC codes; polar codes; machine learning in coding; data compression
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) in 6G
edited by Danaisy Prado-Alvarez and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1859 | Submission Open
Keywords: ISAC (integrated sensing and communication); trade-offs; channel models; sensing and communication; vehicular communications; industrial applications; resource optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)
Information-Theoretic Methods in Data Analytics, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1686 | Submission Open
Keywords: information; probability; divergence; statistical inference; data compression; data visualization; community detection; outlier detection; feature selection; data mining; machine learning; pattern recognition; neural networks; applications of data analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Decision Optimization in Information Theory and Game Theory, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1616 | Submission Open
Keywords: decision optimization; game theory; quantum game theory; negotiation; machine learning; deep learning; Pareto optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Advances in Information Theory and Machine Learning for Computational Imaging
edited by Shirin Jalali
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1415 | Submission Open
Keywords: computational imaging; inverse problems; deep learning for imaging; information theory in imaging; model-based deep learning; deep unfolding; phase retrieval; coherent imaging; physics-informed machine learning; optimization in imaging; statistical imaging methods
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Multiscale Entropy Approaches and Their Applications: Fourth Edition submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1315 | Submission Open
Keywords: multiscale entropy; approximate entropy; sample entropy; permutation entropy; fuzzy entropy; distribution entropy; dispersion entropy; ensemble entropy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Quantum Information Security
edited by Wei Yang
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1227 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum computing; information security; cryptography; secure computation; attacks; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Information Theory in Artificial Intelligence
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 836 | Submission Open
Keywords: information theory; artificial intelligence; entropy; machine learning; mutual information; anomaly detection; representation learning; predictive maintenance; statistical inference; explainable AI
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Quantum Thermal Machines submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 689 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum thermodynamics; quantum heat engines; quantum information engines; quantum statistical mechanics; open quantum systems; quantum work and heat; nonequilibrium thermodynamics; finite-time thermodynamics; cyclic thermal machines; autonomous and continuous thermal machines
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Evolution of Community Complexity
edited by , Hiroki Kojima and Michael Crosscombe
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 392 | Submission Open
Keywords: complex systems; collective intelligence; evolutionary ecology; community; collective dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Information Theory for Future Communication Systems
edited by Min Li, , Congduan Li and
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 333 | Submission Open
Keywords: information theory; coding theory; information-theoretic security and privacy; integrated sensing and communication; future wireless systems; machine learning-driven wireless communications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Statistical Machine Learning with High-Dimensional Data and Image Analysis: Second Edition
edited by
submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 233 | Submission Open
Keywords: statistical machine learning; high-dimensional data; image processing; data mining; pattern recognition; deep learning; big data; computer vision; multimedia
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Statistical and Physics-Based Interpretation of AI and Machine Learning Methods for Biomedical Data submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open
Keywords: statistical interpretation of learning rules; diffusion processes in AI; complex networks; AI methods for biomedicine; integration of multi-omic data; AI for medical imaging; biophysics-inspired learning rules
(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)
Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Plasmas submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 197 | Submission Open
Keywords: equilibrium plasma; non-equilibrium plasma; Chapman– Enskog method; multi-temperature models; state-to-state models; excited states
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Mathematical Modeling in Systems Biology, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 9 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1009 | 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)
Information-Theoretic Approaches for Machine Learning and AI
edited by and Linqi Song
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4428 | Submission Open
Keywords: information theory; coding theory; data compression; quantum computing; semantic information theory; statistical learning theory; reinforcement learning; large language models; federated learning; security and privacy; unbiasedness and fairness
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Complexity and Synchronization in Time Series submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1199 | Submission Open
Keywords: time series synchronization; entropy analysis; fractal analysis; signaling networks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Topics from the 2025 Biennial Symposium on Communications
edited by , Claude D’Amours, and Dave Touchette
submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 315 | Submission Open
Keywords: 6G; quantum communications; coding; signal processing; cybersecurity; ultra-low-power communications; massive MIMO; advanced beamforming; IoT; ultra-dense networks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Informational Coordinative and Teleological Control of Distributed and Multi Agent Systems
edited by
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5025 | Submission Open
Keywords: distributed system; multi agent system; informational control; uncertainty; entropy criterions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
The Future of Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum AI, 2nd Edition submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1271 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum-inspired machine learning; quantum-inspired AI; quantum genetic algorithms; quantum machine learning applications; linear algebra-based quantum machine learning; quantum kernels; efficient preparation of data; quantum programming languages; variational algorithms; quantum decision trees; quantum neural networks; quantum annealing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Quantum Mereologies and Quantum Inspired Set Theories and Logics submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 200 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum mereology; quantum-inspired set theory; non-standard set theories; quasi-set theory; quasets theory
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Entropy and Optimal Control: Theory and Applications
edited by
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 184 | Submission Open
Keywords: optimal control; thermodynamic optimization; port-Hamiltonian systems; multi-domain systems; control theory; exergy and entropy generation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Entropy-Based Fault Diagnosis: From Theory to Applications
edited by , Ling Xiang, and
submission deadline 16 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5915 | 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)
Non-Equilibrium Quantum Many-Body Dynamics
edited by Ricardo Puebla and Fernando Gómez-Ruiz
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4621 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum annealing; adiabatic quantum computation; Kibble– Zurek mechanism; driven quantum systems; collective quantum phenomena; exploiting quantum coherence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Entropy Methods for Cardiorespiratory Coupling Analysis submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3484 | Submission Open
Keywords: cardiopulmonary coupling; exercise; pulmonary diseases; heart failure; nonstationary time series
(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)
Non-Extensive Entropies: Properties and Applications submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 340 | Submission Open
Keywords: non-extensive entropy; thermodynamics; dark energy; dark matter; inflation; cosmological tensions; quantum gravity; observational cosmology; cosmological constant
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)
Diagnosis and Prognosis of Incipient Faults Using Information Processing or Machine Learning, and Deep Learning submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 176 | Submission Open
Keywords: incipient faults; resilience; statistical and information measures; machine and deep learning; predictive maintenance; cybersecurity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Synergy and Redundancy Measures: Theory and Applications to Characterize Complex Systems, Build Models, and Shape Neural Network Representations
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 152 | 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)
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