Entropy

edited by

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4423 | 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)

Entropy Analysis of Electrophysiological Signals

edited by

Elzbieta Olejarczyk

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4012 | 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)

Uncertainty Quantification and Entropy Analysis

edited by

Marcin Kamiński

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3810 | 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 3758 | 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)

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 2784 | 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 2193 | 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 2178 | 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 1107 | 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 1001 | 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)

Information Theory for Data Science, AI and Machine Learning

edited by

Irad Ben-Gal

and

Amichai Painsky

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 921 | 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)

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 783 | 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 769 | 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)

Recent Advances in Quantum Machine Learning

edited by

Nan Jiang

and Jian Wang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 449 | 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 380 | 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)

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 376 | 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)

Quantum Field Theory Methods in Turbulence and Relativistic Hydrodynamics

edited by

Esteban Calzetta

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 356 | 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)

MIMO Wireless Communications: Information Theoretic Perspectives

edited by

Wentao Yu

and

Lizhong Zheng

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 334 | 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 279 | 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 267 | 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)

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

edited by Meryem Jabloun

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 233 | 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)

Entropy, Frustration, and Emergent Phenomena in Correlated Systems

edited by Ludi Miao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2026 | Viewed by 222 | 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)

Discrete Math in Coding Theory, 2nd Edition

edited by

Patrick Solé

submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5467 | 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 | 14 articles | Viewed by 11996 | 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 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7090 | 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

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submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1843 | 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 1043 | 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 922 | 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 481 | 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 4887 | 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 846 | 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 1803 | 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 386 | 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)

Quantum Information Security

edited by Wei Yang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 7517 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum computing; information security; cryptography; secure computation; attacks; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Emergent Dynamics of Complex Systems: From Synchronization to Clustering

edited by Zhigang Zheng

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6964 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex systems; emergence; self-organization; synchronization; swarming; chaos; nonlinear dynamics; statistical physics; phase transition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Covariance, Multiverse, and Stochastic Effects in Classical Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, and Quantum Gravity

edited by

Massimo Tessarotto

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4671 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum mechanics; quantum gravity; quantum effective minimum length

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

New Trends on Quantum Batteries and Energetics in the Quantum Regime, 2nd Edition

edited by

Dario Ferraro

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2421 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum batteries; coherent energy transfer and manipulation; open quantum systems; many-body quantum systems; quantum simulations; quantum optimal control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Complexity in Urban Systems

edited by

Ruiqi Li

, Suoyi Tan and Er-Jian Liu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2128 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Stochastic Processes in Pricing Financial Derivatives

edited by

Piotr Nowak

and Dariusz Gątarek

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2006 | Submission Open

Keywords: financial derivatives pricing; Black–Scholes model; stochastic processes; Lévy processes; semimartingales; Dupire formula

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

Statistical Approaches for Modeling Human Social Systems

edited by

Jorge Navarro

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1995 | Submission Open

Keywords: statistical modeling; human social systems; sentiment analysis and social networks; cognitive decision making; co-decision models in complex systems; entropy and information theory; Bayesian and probabilistic inference; computational social science

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Information Theory for Future Communication Systems

edited by Min Li,

Lawrence Ong

, Congduan Li and

Mingmin Zhao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1531 | 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 Methods for Modeling High-Dimensional and Complex Data: Third Edition

edited by

Yuehua Wu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1449 | Submission Open

Keywords: model selection; spatiotemporal modeling; cluster analysis; high-dimensional statistics; data mining; multiple change-point detection

(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 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1397 | 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)

Cutting-Edge Research in Nonlinear Dynamics, Memristive Devices, and Secure Image Processing

edited by Mingxu Wang, Chunpeng Wang and Qi Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1018 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonlinear dynamics; chaos; image processing; deepfake detection; image moments; watermarking attack; information hiding; image steganography; AI security; computer vision

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Private Information Retrieval and Its Applications

edited by

Sajani Vithana

and

Syed A. Jafar

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 700 | Submission Open

Keywords: private information retrieval; capacity-achieving schemes; threat models; quantum pir; privacy-preserving machine learning; private distributed computations

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

Key Technologies Towards Future Wireless Networks

edited by

Qianfan Wang

,

Wanting Ji

and

Shuangyang Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 631 | Submission Open

Keywords: channel coding; coded modulation; finite-blocklength coding; probabilistic shaping; waveform design; delay–Doppler signaling; high-mobility communications; integrated sensing and communications; intelligent receivers; learning-aided detection and decoding

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

Uncertainty and Fuzziness: Analysis and Applications

edited by

Eugene Kagan

and Alexander Rybalov

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 522 | Submission Open

Keywords: uncertainty; fuzziness; fuzzy systems; possibilistic algorithms; probabilistic analysis; decision-making

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era, Second Edition

edited by Xiao Yuan, Xiaoming Zhang and Bujiao Wu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 515 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum computing; noisy intermediate-scale quantum; variational quantum simulation; quantum computational chemistry; quantum materials; quantum error mitigation; quantum error correction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Higher-Order Interactions in Physiological Networks

edited by

Yuri Antonacci

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 494 | Submission Open

Keywords: higher-order interactions; information theory; network science; redundancy and synergy; multivariate time series analysis

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

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 376 | 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)

Neural Operators and Physics-Informed Neural Networks: Theory and Applications in Complex Systems

edited by

Luca Bergamasco

,

Eliodoro Chiavazzo

and

Constantinos Siettos

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 355 | Submission Open

Keywords: neural operators; physics-informed neural networks (PINNs); multiscale dynamical systems; complex systems; high-dimensional time series forecasting; partial differential equations (PDEs); data-driven modeling; learning physical laws; learning collective variables; uncertainty quantification; numerical analysis; scientific machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

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