Entropy

Entropy Production and Information Flow in Biological Networks

edited by

and Yuansheng Cao

submission deadline 1 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 457 | Submission Open

Keywords: stochastic thermodynamics; entropy production; information flow; biological networks; nonequilibrium systems; signal transduction; active matter

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

Aspects of Social Dynamics: Models and Concepts

edited by

Nikolay K. Vitanov

submission deadline 10 Nov 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6938 | 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)

Recent Advances in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

edited by

Xueqin Jiang

and

Peng Huang

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5637 | 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)

Synchronization and Information Patterns in Human Dynamics

edited by Franco F. Orsucci,

Wolfgang Tschacher

and

Giovanna Zimatore

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2300 | Submission Open

Keywords: synchronization; information dynamics; coordination; self-organization; networks; entropy; resilience; multi-scale dynamics; pattern formation; human interfaces

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Deep Generative Models for Simulating Physical Systems

edited by

Kim Andrea Nicoli

, Lei Wang and

Anindita Maiti

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1837 | 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)

Nonequilibrium Phenomena and AI Techniques

edited by Davide Carbone,

Hong Zhao

and

Lamberto Rondoni

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 565 | Submission Open

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

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

Information Theory and Large Language Models

edited by

Xueyan Niu

,

Jun Chen

and Bo Bai

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 488 | Submission Open

Keywords: large language models; information theory; LLM reasoning; generalization; memory management; safety and hallucination detection; watermarking; model compression

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

Token-Based Communications

edited by

Howard Hao Yang

,

Nikolaos Pappas

, Zihan Chen and Christopher G. Brinton

submission deadline 15 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 330 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; large language models; token communications; networked systems

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

Information Theory in Control Systems, 3rd Edition

edited by

Adrian-Mihail Stoica

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1505 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-agent systems; optimal control; optimal estimation and filtering; communication channel constraints; decentralized control; fault detection; isolation and recovery

(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 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 573 | 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)

Advances in Image Encryption and Chaotic Cryptography

edited by Chengqing Li

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 383 | Submission Open

Keywords: image encryption; chaotic cryptography; multimedia security; permutation–diffusion structures; nonlinear dynamics; pseudo-random sequence generation; cryptanalysis; side-channel attacks; fault attacks; hardware security; secure image transmission

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Information Theory and Coding for Image and Video Processing in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Ofer Hadar

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 360 | Submission Open

Keywords: image compression; video coding; information theory; learned compression; deep learning; multimedia communication; computer vision

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

Driven-Dissipative Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems

edited by Sayak Ray and

Lamberto Rondoni

submission deadline 20 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 259 | Submission Open

Keywords: open quantum systems; many-body systems; non-equilibrium dynamics; driven-dissipative systems; exceptional point; Bose–Josephson junctions; Bose–Einstein condensation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum Information and Quantum Computation

edited by Zhian Jia and Dagomir Kaszlikowski

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8817 | 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)

Statistical Inference: Theory and Methods

edited by

Michel Broniatowski

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 6231 | 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)

Failure Diagnosis of Complex Systems

edited by

Tao Wang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6044 | 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)

The Information Bottleneck Method: Theory and Applications

edited by

Shujian Yu

and Robert Jenssen

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5215 | 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)

Statistical Planning, Inference, and Decision Making in High-Dimensional Data Analysis

edited by

Syed Ejaz Ahmed

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4630 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; statistics; statistical learning; statistical inference; machine learning

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

Mathematical Modeling for Ion Channels

edited by

Agata Wawrzkiewicz-Jałowiecka

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4300 | 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)

Uncertainty Quantification and Entropy Analysis

edited by

Marcin Kamiński

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3745 | 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)

Coding and Signal Processing for Data Storage Systems

edited by Kui Cai and

Tuan Thanh Nguyen

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3664 | 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)

Entropy Analysis of Electrophysiological Signals

edited by

Elzbieta Olejarczyk

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3633 | 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)

Advances in Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control: From Classical Approaches to AI-Driven Solutions

edited by

Joseph J. Yame

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2687 | Submission Open

Keywords: fault detection and diagnosis (FDD); fault-tolerant control (FTC); model-based methods; data-driven control; machine learning for control systems; reinforcement learning; uncertainty quantification; information–theoretic analysis; control reconfiguration; cyber–physical systems’ resilience

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

Time Series Analysis for Signal Processing

edited by Ruobin Gao,

Yang Yu

and

Zicheng Wang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2111 | Submission Open

Keywords: time series analysis; time series forecasting; long-range forecasting; neural networks

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

Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology

edited by János A. Bergou

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2110 | 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)

Quantum Ontology: Theory and Applications

edited by

Olimpia Lombardi

,

Sebastian Fortin

and

Matías Pasqualini

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1025 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum ontology; quantum field-theoretic ontology; formal and mathematical frameworks for quantum ontology; ontological issues in quantum information theory; applied quantum ontology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

New Advances in Quantum Communication and Networks, 2nd Edition

edited by

Gui-Lu Long

, Xiao-Ming Xiu and Fei-Hao Zhang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 814 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum communication; quantum secure direct communication; quantum key distribution; device-independent quantum key distribution; device-independent quantum secure direct communication; quantum teleportation; quantum repeater; secure classical repeater; quantum network; quantum secret sharing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Open Quantum Dynamics in Non-Equilibrium and Complex Systems

edited by

Alessandro Sergi

and

Antonino Messina

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 740 | Submission Open

Keywords: open quantum systems dynamics; nonequilibrium systems; complex quantum systems; dissipative quantum evolution; non-Hermitian dynamics; quantum thermodynamics; hybrid quantum–classical methods; stochastic and trajectory-based approaches

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Entropy-Guided Evolutionary Intelligence: Information Dynamics for Adaptive and Explainable Machine Learning

edited by

Diego Oliva

and

Marco Perez-Cisneros

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 699 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning (ML); evolutionary algorithms (EAs); entropy; uncertainty; information theory; optimization; entropy-driven evolutionary machine learning; information-theoretic measures; evolutionary operators; complex real-world problems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Information Theory for Data Science, AI and Machine Learning

edited by

Irad Ben-Gal

and

Amichai Painsky

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 676 | Submission Open

Keywords: data science; machine learning; AI; statistics and inference; information theory; federated learning; reinforcement learning

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

Recent Advances in Quantum Machine Learning

edited by

Nan Jiang

and Jian Wang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 422 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum machine learning; variational quantum circuits; quantum neural networks; hybrid quantum–classical models; quantum optimization; quantum gradient descent; quantum information theory; quantum entropy; near-term quantum devices; quantum computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

New Advances in Black Hole Thermodynamics

edited by

Hernando Quevedo

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 371 | Submission Open

Keywords: black hole; thermodynamics; gravity; geometrothermodynamics; extended thermodynamics; quantum physics; non-equilibrium

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

Quantum Field Theory Methods in Turbulence and Relativistic Hydrodynamics

edited by

Esteban Calzetta

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 341 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrodynamics; quantum field theory; relativistic turbulence; holographic fluid dynamics; numerical real relativistic hydrodynamics; thermalization and hydrodynamization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

O-RAN-Enabled Future-Generation Terrestrial Networks and Non-Terrestrial Networks

edited by Minglong Zhang and

Bo Tang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 335 | Submission Open

Keywords: open RAN (O-RAN); non-terrestrial networks (NTN); satellite–aerial–ground integrated networks (SAGIN); AI/ML-driven orchestration; 6G networks; network slicing

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

MIMO Wireless Communications: Information Theoretic Perspectives

edited by

Wentao Yu

and

Lizhong Zheng

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 324 | Submission Open

Keywords: MIMO wireless communications; information theory; wireless channels; wireless transceivers

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

Quantum Technologies in the NISQ Era and Beyond

edited by

Tianqi Chen

, Danbo Zhang and

Jiangbin Gong

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 257 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information; quantum many-body physics; quantum algorithms; quantum error mitigation; quantum error correction; quantum computing; quantum thermodynamics; quantum technologies; theoretical and computational quantum physics; quantum for AI; AI for quantum; quantum for X

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Estimation of Entropic Quantities with Diffusion Models

edited by

Giulio Franzese

and

Pietro Michiardi

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 257 | Submission Open

Keywords: generative models; diffusion processes; information estimation; higher-order information; mutual information; o-information; transfer entropy; score matching; nonequilibrium statistical physics

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

Entropy, Frustration, and Emergent Phenomena in Correlated Systems

edited by Ludi Miao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 210 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; magnetic frustration; strongly correlated systems; emergent phenomena; quantum materials; spin systems; statistical physics; topological excitations; phase transitions; magnetic entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Ordinal Pattern-Based Entropies: New Ideas and Challenges, Second Edition

edited by Meryem Jabloun

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 196 | Submission Open

Keywords: permutation entropy; multiscale permutation entropy and its variants; Tsallis permutation entropy; ordinal pattern-based complexity measure of time series; real data application; multidimensional time series; encrypted data; theoretical understanding for appropriate application; ordinal pattern based-entropy in machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Discrete Math in Coding Theory, 2nd Edition

edited by

Patrick Solé

submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5328 | 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)

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

edited by

Joanna Olbryś

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | 13 articles | Viewed by 11496 | 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)

Information Theory and Data Compression

edited by Tsachy Weissman

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6637 | 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)

Entropy in Adaptive Learning Systems: Modeling Uncertainty, Information Dynamics and Personalized Education

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1776 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy-based modeling; adaptive learning systems; information theory in education; uncertainty quantification; personalized education; learning analytics; intelligent tutoring systems; educational data mining; information dynamics; AI in education

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Energy Transition: Exergy, Emissions and Optimization

edited by

Monica Carvalho

and

Adriano Da Silva Marques

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 919 | Submission Open

Keywords: life cycle assessment; thermoeconomics; exergoeconomics; exergoenvironmental assessment; energy optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Data Science, Statistics, and Entropy

edited by

Marcelo Bourguignon

and

Diego I. Gallardo

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 883 | Submission Open

Keywords: distribution theory; regression models; survival analysis; inference in stochastic processes; machine learning; time series analysis

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

Entropy and Dissipation in Non-Collisional Space Plasmas

edited by Giuseppe Consolini and

Simone Benella

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 464 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-collisional space plasmas; entropy; dissipation; turbulence; complexity

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

Information Theory in Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Marco Piangerelli

submission deadline 20 Dec 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4734 | 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)

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

edited by

Yi-Cheng Zhang

and

Shimin Cai

submission deadline 20 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 833 | 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)

Harnessing Low-Dimensional Structures in Machine Learning and Signal Processing

edited by

Jiaxi Ying

and

Jun Chen

submission deadline 21 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1728 | Submission Open

Keywords: low-dimensional structures; sparse representations; low-rank models; tensor decomposition; compressed sensing; nonconvex optimization; information-theoretic bounds; neural network compression; efficient AI systems

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

Entropy-Based Complexity Analysis in Econophysics and Biophysics

edited by

Janusz Miśkiewicz

submission deadline 30 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 375 | 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)

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