Entropy

Discrete Math in Coding Theory, 2nd Edition

edited by

Patrick Solé

submission deadline 2 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1393 | Submission Open

Keywords: codes; designs; rings; modules; graphs; discrete algorithms; incidence geometry; arithmetic geometry

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

Explaining Economic and Social Science Phenomena Through Physical Models, Second Edition

edited by

Marcin Makowski

and

Jan Sładkowski

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6273 | 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)

Dissipative Physical Dynamics

edited by Katalin Mária Gambár

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2413 | 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)

Coding and Signal Processing for Data Storage Systems

edited by Kui Cai and

Tuan Thanh Nguyen

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

Keywords: error-correction codes; constrained codes; efficient encoding/decoding algorithms; signal processing; channel capacity; machine learning; DNA data storage; non-volatile memory; distributed storage; security and privacy

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

Density Estimation in the Era of AI

edited by Jeffrey D. Hart

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open

Keywords: probability density estimation; high-dimensional data; neural networks; nonparametric methods; machine learning

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

Recent Progress in Uncertainty Measures

edited by

Xinyang Deng

and

Yong Deng

submission deadline 17 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 673 | Submission Open

Keywords: epistemic uncertainty; entropy and extropy; information theory; Deng entropy; plausibility entropy; fuzzy entropy; uncertainty reasoning; uncertain information fusion

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

The Mathematics of Structured Experience: Exploring Dynamics, Topology, and Complexity in the Brain

edited by

Giulio Ruffini

,

Johannes Kleiner

and

Ryota Kanai

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 11337 | Submission Open

Keywords: mathematical theories of consciousness; Kolmogorov complexity; AIT; manifold hypothesis; symmetry; world models; dynamics; topology; AI

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

Multi-Scale Information Dynamics in Neural Circuits: Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Perspectives

edited by

Giampiero Bardella

, Liming Pan and Gianni Valerio Vinci

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 267 | Submission Open

Keywords: neural dynamics; statistical physics; collective behavior in networks; information theory; dynamical systems; causality; graph theory; network theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

A Contemporary Triad in Quantum Foundations: Correlational, Compositional, and Causal Structures

edited by Ana Belén Sainz and

Marco Erba

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundations; correlational phenomena; compositional structures; causal structures; higher-order causal structures; quantum correlations; Bell’ s theorem

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Complexities: Their Media and Their Messages

edited by

Juval Portugali

and Egbert Stolk

submission deadline 23 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 98 | 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)

Quantum Foundations: 100 Years of Born’s Rule

edited by

Dustin Lazarovici

submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11091 | 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)

Interdisciplinary Statistical Physics, Neural Computation, and Complex Systems

edited by Marcelo Arlego and

Fernando Montani

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open

Keywords: neural computation; stochastic thermodynamics; physics-informed neural networks (PINNs); criticality in neural systems; entropy-driven learning; information theory in biology; neural network dynamics; active matter in neuroscience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Spreading Dynamics in Complex Networks

edited by

Lazaros Gallos

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 10 articles | Viewed by 13793 | Submission Open

Keywords: epidemic spreading; network science; network dynamics; information spreading; social network analysis; computational modeling; infectious disease modeling; percolation theory; machine learning in complex networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Gases

edited by Antonio J. Ramirez-Pastor and Jose Luis Riccardo

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11001 | Submission Open

Keywords: fundamentals of lattice gases; equilibrium thermodynamics; adsorption; phase transitions and critical phenomena; transport phenomena and kinetics; surface diffusion; lattice gases in complex systems; quantum lattice gases

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Complexity of Social Networks

edited by Zi-Ke Zhang, Junming Huang, Xiaoke Xu and Quanhui Liu

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10573 | Submission Open

Keywords: social networks; social media; network structure dynamics; echo chambers; collective behavior; AI in social networks; information diffusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Modern Perspectives on the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Infodynamics

edited by

Roberto Zivieri

and

Israa Medlej

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2642 | Submission Open

Keywords: second law of thermodynamics; entropy; irreversibility; thermodynamic processes; information theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Entropy-Based Time Series Analysis: Theory and Applications

edited by

Felipe Olivares

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2312 | Submission Open

Keywords: structural entropies; dynamical entropies; multiscale entropy; ordinal patterns-based entropies; entropy as a complexity measure; signal classification; signal segmentation and spike detection; multivariate time series analysis; real-world and socio-technical applications; interdisciplinary applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Recent Advances in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

edited by

Xueqin Jiang

and

Peng Huang

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1694 | Submission Open

Keywords: information security; quantum communication; continuous-variable quantum key distribution; post processing; information reconciliation; error correcting codes; privacy amplification; secret key rate

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Uncertainty Quantification and Entropy Analysis

edited by

Marcin Kamiński

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1572 | Submission Open

Keywords: Monte Carlo simulation; stochastic perturbation method; semi-analytical approaches; Bayesian methods; polynomial chaos expansion; reliability assessment; durability prediction; probabilistic entropy; probabilistic distance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Mathematical Modeling for Ion Channels

edited by

Agata Wawrzkiewicz-Jałowiecka

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1480 | Submission Open

Keywords: ion channels; channel gating; patch clamp; statistical physics; applied mathematics; phenomenological models; Brownian dynamics; entropic potential; molecular dynamics; mechanism of selectivity; activation of gate-selectivity filter coupling; ion channel permeation mechanism; conformational dynamics; allosteric coupling; ionic currents through biological membranes; biomimetic channels; nanopores; rectification; time series analysis; information entropy; Shannon entropy; sample entropy; multiscale entropy; slope entropy; entropic effects of channel gating

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

The Information Bottleneck Method: Theory and Applications

edited by

Shujian Yu

and Robert Jenssen

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 944 | Submission Open

Keywords: information bottleneck; neural networks; deep learning generalization; explainable neural networks; deep reinforcement learning; multimodal learning; self-supervised learning; graph neural networks

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

Entropy Analysis of Electrophysiological Signals

edited by

Elzbieta Olejarczyk

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 891 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; approximate entropy; sample entropy; multiscale entropy; multivariate entropy; biomedical signal analysis; electrophysiological signals; electroencephalography (EEG); electrocardiography (ECG); electromyography (EMG); complexity; information theory; nonlinear dynamics; neural system; neural dynamics; cognitive neuroscience; sleep research; brain– computer interface

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

Statistical Inference: Theory and Methods

edited by

Michel Broniatowski

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 688 | Submission Open

Keywords: variational inference; conditional inference; Bayesian inference; divergence-based inference; misspecification; robustness; machine learning; outlier detection; extreme values; semi-parametric models; depth estimators; discrete and categorized data

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

Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology

edited by János A. Bergou

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 497 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum measurements; quantum sensing; quantum metrology; quantum Fisher information; quantum state tomography; positive operator-valued measure (POVM); Cramer– Rao bound

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Methods from Differential Topology and Differential Geometry in Information Geometry

edited by

Stéphane Puechmorel

,

Frank Nielsen

and

Frédéric Barbaresco

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 241 | Submission Open

Keywords: foliations; gauge structures; statistical manifolds; symplectic geometry; contact geometry; riemannian and sub-riemannian geometry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Deep Generative Models for Simulating Physical Systems

edited by

Kim Andrea Nicoli

, Lei Wang and

Anindita Maiti

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 225 | Submission Open

Keywords: generative models; variational inference; amortized inference; lattice field theory; monte Carlo methods; normalizing flows; autoregressive models; statistical learning theory; Bayesian learning; neural networks quantum states; enhanced sampling; variational free energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Kolmogorov Complexity and Applications—Dedicated to Professor Paul Vitanyi on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

edited by Ming Li

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open

Keywords: Kolmogorov complexity; randomness; compression and LLM; information distance; theory; and applications

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

Mutual Information in Statistical Learning

edited by Philip E. Cheng and

Michelle Liou

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 184 | Submission Open

Keywords: conditional mutual information; discrete data analysis; entropy; feature selection; mutual information

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

Quantum Physics: An Information Theory

edited by

Davi Geiger

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open

Keywords: Gibbs entropy; thermodynamic entropy; quantum entropy; quantum thermalization; black hole entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum Criticality and Emergent Phases in Strongly Correlated and Frustrated Materials

edited by

Sangyun Lee

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum phase transition; quantum critical point (QCP); quantum spin liquids; strongly correlated electron systems; unconventional superconductivity; frustrated materials; non-Fermi liquid behavior; competing orders and emergent phases

Applications of Information-Theoretic Concepts for Generative AI Systems

edited by

Deniz Gençağa

and Rita Singh

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 116 | Submission Open

Keywords: information-theoretic learning; generative artificial intelligence; deep generative models; transformer architectures; variational autoencoders (VAEs); generative adversarial networks (GANs); diffusion probabilistic models; large language models (LLMs)

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

Open Quantum Systems Applied to Quantum Computation

edited by

Nadja Bernardes

and Francesco Petruccione

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open

Keywords: open quantum systems; quantum simulation; variational quantum methods; quantum algorithms; dissipative quantum computation; open quantum walk

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics in Astrophysics

edited by

Jiulin Du

submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 672 | Submission Open

Keywords: plasma astrophysics with non-Maxwell distributions; astrophysical plasma and space plasma; planetary plasmas; transport theory in astrophysics; gravitational waves; self-gravitating systems; solar and stellar physics; galactic dynamics; dark matter; dark energy; cosmology

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

Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Plasmas

edited by

Gianpiero Colonna

,

Annarita Laricchiuta

and

Elena Kustova

submission deadline 15 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 210 | 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)

Advances in Probabilistic Machine Learning

edited by Martin Trapp and

Pierre Alquier

submission deadline 16 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6907 | 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)

Entropy in Quantum Systems and Quantum Field Theory (QFT): Gravity, 3rd Edition

edited by

Ignazio Licata

submission deadline 17 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4033 | 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)

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 20 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 19 | 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)

Aspects of Social Dynamics: Models and Concepts

edited by

Nikolay K. Vitanov

submission deadline 27 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4746 | 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)

Ising Model—100 Years Old and Still Attractive

edited by

Adam Lipowski

submission deadline 28 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3963 | Submission Open

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)

Statistical Physics Approaches for Modeling Human Social Systems

edited by

Chaoming Song

and

Jianxi Gao

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7954 | 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)

Entropy: From Atoms to Complex Systems

edited by

Caroline Desgranges

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4077 | 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)

Quantum Information and Quantum Computation

edited by Zhian Jia and Dagomir Kaszlikowski

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3680 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundations; quantum games; generalized probabilistic theory; quantum computation; quantum algorithm; quantum simulation; quantum metrology; quantum entanglement; steering; and nonlocality; quantum contextuality; topological quantum information; quantum error correction; quantum memory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems

edited by Ting Yu

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3671 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-Markovian open quantum systems; non-Markovian dynamics; non-Markovian quantum transport; environmental memory effect; quantum control; quantum technology; quantum devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information Theory and Data Compression

edited by Tsachy Weissman

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2377 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; data compression (lossless and lossy); compression complexity; source coding; coding theory; distortion; point clouds

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

Failure Diagnosis of Complex Systems

edited by

Tao Wang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2249 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; entropy; deep learning; nonlinear dynamics; fault detection; fault diagnosis; fault pattern recognition

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

Entropy-Based Applications in Economics, Finance, and Management, 4th Edition

edited by

Joanna Olbryś

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1532 | Submission Open

Keywords: information entropy; fuzzy entropy; maximum entropy; copula entropy; structural entropy; transfer entropy; permutation entropy; slope entropy; approximate entropy; sample entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

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 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1155 | 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)

Causal Inference in Statistics and AI

edited by Jalal Etesami and

Wray L. Buntine

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 1025 | Submission Open

Keywords: causal discovery; causal effect estimation and counterfactual inference; causal representation learning; high-dimensional causal inference; fairness; transparency; and explainability in AI; time-series and dynamic causal inference; statistical aspects of causal inference; sensitivity analysis and robustness in causal models; foundational theories of causal inference; applications in healthcare; economics; and AI; information theoretic approaches; Granger causality; transfer entropy

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

Information Theory for Future Communication Systems

edited by Min Li,

Lawrence Ong

, Congduan Li and

Mingmin Zhao

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 371 | 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)

Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information, 3rd Edition

edited by

Yi-Cheng Zhang

and

Shimin Cai

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 338 | Submission Open

Keywords: information systems; neural networks; information theory; complexity theory; statistical physics; complex networks; complexity and entropy in AI; data-driven modeling; machine learning and deep learning; time series analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

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