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Thermal Transport in Nanoscale Systems

edited by Shunda Chen

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 63 | 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)

Probability Theory and Quantum Information, 2nd Edition

edited by Bin Yan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 46 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information; probability theory; quantum probabilities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

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 | Viewed by 32 | 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)

Symbolic Dynamics in Biological Signal Processing

edited by Timo Bröhl and

Bulcsú Sándor

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 29 | 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)

Causal Representation Learning with Its Applications

edited by

Kuang Zhou

and

Xiaoding Wang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 18 | 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)

Molecular Modeling and Simulation

edited by

Timothy Moore

and

Ashley Guo

submission deadline 3 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 23 | 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 2092 | 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 9174 | 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)

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 291 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1992 | 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)

Geometric Machine Learning

edited by Pietro Giuseppe Fré

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 32 | 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)

Shortcut to Adiabaticity in Classical and Quantum Systems

edited by Jing Li and

Andreas Ruschhaupt

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2061 | 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)

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

edited by

Cun Ji

and

Bo Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

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

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

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

edited by

Tatiana Morosuk

and

Muhammad Sultan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 202 | 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)

Mathematical Foundation of Quantum Shannon Information Theory

edited by

Osamu Hirota

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 146 | Submission Open

Keywords: positive operator valued measure and instrument theory; mathematical theory for entangled measurement; quantum stochastic equation and fock space; quantum reliability function; quantum cut-off rate and coding; quantum kalman filter; mathematical theory for non-commutative parameter estimation; realization theory of holevo capacity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Non-Equilibrium Processes in Earth and Environmental Systems: Dynamics, Feedbacks, and Modeling Approaches

edited by Jun Yin,

Matteo Colangeli

, Kailiang Yu and

Bei Gao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-equilibrium phenomena; earth and environmental systems; climate extremes; artificial intelligence and machine learning; statistical mechanics

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

Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Machine Learning

edited by Shenggen Zheng

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 114 | 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)

Analysis of Critical Behavior in Complex Systems

edited by

Gaogao Dong

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 57 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Communication Networks, Second Edition

edited by

Yanli Xu

and

Shengming Jiang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 32 | 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)

Nonlinear Phenomena in Fluid Dynamics

edited by Alexander B. Mikishev and Lev A. Ostrovsky

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 13 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonlinear fluid dynamics; complex fluids; bifurcations and transition; nonlinear waves; dynamical systems theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Kinetic Analysis and Engineering of (Bio)chemical Reactions—in Honor of the 85th Birthday of Professor Gregory Yablonsky

edited by

Peter Strizhak

Necip B. Üner

and Rebecca Fushimi

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 346 | Submission Open

Keywords: reaction mechanisms and pathways; chemical equilibrium; chemical reaction engineering; multiphase reactions; transport effects in observed kinetics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Quantum Key Distribution in Optical Communications

edited by Tao Wang,

Peng Huang

and

Qin Liao

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum key distribution; quantum random number generator; quantum network; optical communication; digital signal processing; quantum cryptography; quantum chips; physical cryptography; continuous variables; Gaussian quantum information

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Physical-Layer Security, Quantum Key Distribution and Post-Quantum Cryptography, 3rd Edition

edited by Ivan Djordjevic

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: physical-layer security; quantum key distribution (QKD); post-quantum cryptography; quantum enhanced cryptography; stealth communication; covert communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Entropy in Relativistic Fluid Dynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics and Its Implications to the Cosmological Dark Energy and Dark Matter Problems

edited by

Asher Yahalom

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 513 | Submission Open

Keywords: relativistic dynamics; non-barotropic (entropy-dependent) fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics; topological conservation laws in entropy-dependent flow dynamics; dark matter; dark energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)

Entropy: Exploring Complexity and Information in Science

edited by

Miguel Rubi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 134 | Submission Open

Keywords: complexity; information theory; entropy; quantum information; non-equilibrium systems; statistical physics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Information-Theoretic Perspectives on Integrated Sensing and Communication

edited by

Giorgio Taricco

Giuseppe Caire

and Marco Di Renzo

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 82 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated sensing and communication; sensing– communication tradeoffs; ISAC information theory; learning-assisted ISAC; AI-enabled sensing and communication; rate– distortion for ISAC; satellite and non-terrestrial ISAC; distributed and federated ISAC; massive MIMO and mmWave/THz ISAC

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

Causal Entropy and Directed Information for Risk, Resilience, and Decision Support

edited by Louis Anthony Cox

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 13 | Submission Open

Keywords: causal entropy; directed information; transfer entropy; information decomposition; decision support; adaptive risk management; resilience; complex sociotechnical systems; adaptive control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Nonequilibrium Phenomena and AI Techniques

edited by Davide Carbone,

Hong Zhao

and

Lamberto Rondoni

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 109 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonequilibrium phenomena; statistical physics; artificial intelligence; machine learning

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

Entropy-Based Complexity Analysis in Econophysics and Biophysics

edited by

Janusz Miśkiewicz

submission deadline 30 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; complex systems; econophysics; biophysics; information theory; statistical mechanics; non-equilibrium dynamics; financial time series; biological complexity; ion channels

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Complexity in Urban Systems

edited by

Ruiqi Li

, Suoyi Tan and Er-Jian Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban mobility; urban modeling; spatial growth model; migration; transportation; urban scaling laws; segregation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Kardar–Parisi–Zhang (KPZ) Equation

edited by

Yi-Cheng Zhang

, Zi-Ke Zhang and Fei Jing

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 8 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-equilibrium potential (NEP); stochastic thermodynamics; memory effects; golubović– bruinsma (GB) model; scaling behavior; noise regularization; large deviation statistics; interface growth dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Assessing Complexity in Physiological Systems Through Biomedical Signals Analysis, 3rd Edition

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 Jan 2027 | Viewed by 3 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; fractals; multiscale analysis; linear and nonlinear prediction; self-organization; chaos; information dynamics; symbolic dynamics; nonlinearity; heart rate variability; EEG

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

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