Entropy

Classical and Quantum Networks: Theory, Modeling and Optimization, 2nd Edition

edited by

and

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 640 | Submission Open

Keywords: network dynamics; network topology; complex networks; percolation; quantum entanglement; quantum correlations; quantum interconnect; quantum walks; quantum key distribution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Interfacing with Quantum Information Processors—Readout and Control

edited by Benjamin Lienhard and N. Anders Petersson

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 520 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information processing; quantum processor characterization; quantum processor calibration; quantum control; quantum measurement; quantum error mitigation; quantum error suppression; quantum error correction; machine learning for quantum computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Uncertainty Quantification and Entropy Analysis

edited by

Marcin Kamiński

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 452 | 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)

Advances in Entropy and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2nd Edition

edited by

Jorge Arturo Alfaro-Ayala

and

José de Jesús Ramírez-Minguela

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 397 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy and CFD in laminar and turbulent flows; entropy generation rate by fluid flow and heat/mass transfer processes; entropy generation rate in multiphase flows; entropy generation rate in chemically reactive flows; optimization with the second law of thermodynamics and CFD; entropy generation rate in biological and physiological flows; entropy generation rate in nano- and micro-fluid flows; entropy and CFD in thermal equipment; such as fuel cells; solar collectors; heat exchangers; combustors; ovens; refrigeration cabins; etc.; entropy and CFD in devices used to generate energy; such as horizontal/vertical wind turbines; gas/vapor turbines; etc.; entropy and CFD in other equipment; such as compressors; blowers; stirred tanks; etc.; entropy and CFD in biological tissues; such as aorta; veins; heart; etc.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Emerging Chaos Generation Methods and Memory Elements in Cryptographic Systems: An Entropy and Information Theory Perspective

edited by

Suo Gao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 259 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy in chaos-based systems; information-theoretic security; memristors; meminductors; and memcapacitors in cryptography; high-entropy pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs); chaos-based secure communication; entropy optimization in nonlinear dynamical systems; machine learning for chaos and entropy evaluation; post-quantum cryptography using entropy-driven methods

(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 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 203 | 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)

Entropy Application in Biomechanics

edited by

Li Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open

Keywords: approximate entropy; balance; biomechanics; complexity; correlation entropy; electromyography; ergonomics; geometric entropy; Hilbert– Huang marginal spectrum entropy; injury risks; mobility (gait; walking; and running); movement control; multiscale entropy; muscle contraction; nonlinear analysis; permutation entropy; postural control; sample entropy; Shannon entropy; sports; stability; variability

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

Mathematical Modeling for Ion Channels

edited by

Agata Wawrzkiewicz-Jałowiecka

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 130 | 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)

Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics in Astrophysics

edited by

Jiulin Du

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 117 | 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)

Editorial Board Members' Collection Series on Quantum Entanglement

edited by

Xiang-Bin Wang

,

Richard D. Gill

, Francesco De Martini,

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and

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8328 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum entanglement; quantum key distribution; quantum communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum Mechanics and the Challenge of Time

edited by

Eli Pollak

and Randall S. Dumont

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6449 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Time)

The Statistical Physics of Generative Diffusion Models

edited by Luca Ambrogioni

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5058 | Submission Open

Keywords: generative diffusion models; generative models; statistical physics; equilibrium thermodynamics; symmetry breaking; phase transition; stochastic localization; Hopfield networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Information Theory in Emerging Machine Learning Techniques

edited by Ke Sun

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3441 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; information theory; information divergence; Riemannian geometry; Fisher information; information bottleneck; deep autoencoders; normalization in deep learning; deep neural network optimizers

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

Information Theory and Data Compression

edited by Tsachy Weissman

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 841 | 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)

Quantum Nonstationary Systems—Second Edition

edited by

Viktor Dodonov

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 566 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum nonstationary systems; quantum dissipative systems; quantum entanglement; dynamics of decoherence and thermalization; dynamical Casimir effect; time-dependent quantum systems; time-dependent phenomena; quantum speed limits; energy-time uncertainty relations; quantum heat engines

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Advances in Federated and Collaborative Learning with Applications for Generative AI

edited by Chee Wei Tan and Wenyi Zhang

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy and perplexity; model interpretation and representation learning; federated learning and collaborative learning; machine unlearning; in-context learning; distributed optimization; large language models; AI safety; data removal algorithms; AI-generated data detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Entropy Metrics for Interpretable Condition Monitoring in Complex Industrial Equipment

edited by

Tao Xie

,

Xiaojun Mei

and

Chaoge Wang

submission deadline 19 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 647 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy-based condition monitoring; interpretable feature extraction; fault diagnosis; rotating machinery; data-driven diagnostics; predictive maintenance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Next-Generation Channel Coding: Theory and Applications

edited by

Min Qiu

,

Xiaowei Wu

,

Peng Kang

and Jinhong Yuan

submission deadline 19 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 327 | Submission Open

Keywords: LDPC codes; turbo codes; polar codes; coded modulations; spatially coupled codes; coding hardware architectures; learning-based coding schemes; rateless codes; joint source– channel coding

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

Information Spreading Dynamics in Complex Networks

edited by

Duanbing Chen

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1738 | Submission Open

Keywords: information spreading; complex networks; temporal networks; resilient and recoverable networks; simplicial complex; influential spreaders; phase transition; network attack and defense; collaborative evolution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Causal Inference in Statistics and AI

edited by Jalal Etesami and

Wray L. Buntine

submission deadline 29 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 258 | 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)

Quantum Information and Quantum Computation

edited by Zhian Jia and Dagomir Kaszlikowski

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1425 | 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)

Lie Group Machine Learning

edited by

Fanzhang Li

and Li Liu

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1106 | Submission Open

Keywords: Lie group algebraic learning; Lie group geometric learning; Lie group cover learning; Lie group meta learning; Lie group continual learning; Lie group reinforcement learning; Lie group neural network learning; Lie group Bayesian learning; symplectic group learning; quantum group learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Spreading Dynamics in Complex Networks

edited by

Lazaros Gallos

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7759 | 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)

An Information-Theoretic Approach to Side-Channel Analysis

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5416 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; side-channel analysis; attacks; bounds; countermeasures

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

Network Information Theory and Its Applications

edited by

Yanlin Geng

, Youlong Wu and Ling Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4640 | Submission Open

Keywords: network information theory; capacity region; Gaussian noise; information inequality; distributed system; federated learning; channel coding; source coding; randomness generation; integrated sensing and communication; coded caching and computing; communication for computing; network coding

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

Advances in Modern Channel Coding

edited by Yongpeng Wu and Peihong Yuan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4232 | Submission Open

Keywords: LDPC codes; turbo codes; polar coding; probabilistic shaping; coded modulation

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

The First Half Century of Finite-Time Thermodynamics

edited by

Bjarne Andresen

and

Peter Salamon

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3085 | Submission Open

Keywords: finite-time thermodynamics; thermodynamic geometry; control thermodynamics; optimization; thermodynamic bounds; optimal control modeling; efficiency; wide range of applicability of the concepts in chemistry; physics; quantum; engineering; economics; biology; etc.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Kinetic Models of Chemical Reactions

edited by

Gregory Yablonsky

and

Alexander N. Gorban

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2925 | Submission Open

Keywords: heterogeneous catalysis; chemical kinetics; complexity in chemical kinetics; graph theory in chemical kinetics; chemical kinetics and thermodynamics; non-steady-state chemical kinetics; chemical relaxation; temporal analysis of products (TAP); non-linearity in chemical kinetics; critical phenomena in chemical kinetics; oscillations and multiplicity in chemistry; catalyst deactivation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems

edited by Ting Yu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2322 | 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-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy Machine Learning

edited by Sanghamitra Dutta and

Syed A. Jafar

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1519 | Submission Open

Keywords: fairness; explainability; reliability; privacy; security; robustness

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

From Order to Disorder: Superfluidity, Stochastic Processes, and the Dynamics of Life—Dedicated to Professor Peter McClintock on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday

edited by Aneta Stefanovska, Philip C.E. Stamp,

Mark Dykman

,

Laszlo B. Kish

and Ladislav Skrbek

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1402 | Submission Open

Keywords: superfluid vortices and turbulence; quantum and classical fluctuations; wave turbulence; vortex nucleation and effective mass; 2D superfluids and Kosterlitz– Thouless physics; dissipation in quantum systems; rare events in stochastic processes; quantum turbulence and cavitation; entropy production in nonequilibrium systems; deterministic and stochastic dynamics; biological dynamics and multiscale interactions; interactions and couplings in dynamical systems; biological and artificial ion channels; physics of life; biological oscillators; stochastic resonance; vibrational resonance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

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

edited by

Massimo Tessarotto

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 676 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Rethinking Representation Learning in the Age of Large Models

edited by

Yuhang Liu

,

Xinyu Zhang

and Qingsen Yan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 582 | Submission Open

Keywords: large language models; multi-modal models; generative AI; representation learning; causality; entropy; visual perception; efficient AI training; interpretable AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Recent Advances in Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

edited by

Xueqin Jiang

and

Peng Huang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 561 | 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)

Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Systems

edited by

Alina Cristiana Gavriluţ

and

Maricel Agop

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 544 | Submission Open

Keywords: deterministic chaos; bifurcations; strange attractors; scale relativity theory; multifractality; non-linear behavior

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Probability Theory and Quantum Information

edited by Bin Yan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 327 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information; probability theory; quantum probabilities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Failure Diagnosis of Complex Systems

edited by

Tao Wang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 322 | 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 Time Series Analysis: Theory and Applications

edited by

Felipe Olivares

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 178 | 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)

Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Stochastic Processes of Complex Reaction Networks

edited by Schuyler B. Nicholson and

Eun-jin Kim

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open

Keywords: stochastic thermodynamics; complex reaction networks; statistical mechanics; stochastic processes; tensor networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Geometry in Thermodynamics, 4th Edition

edited by

Michael Parker

,

Chris Jeynes

, Stuart Walker and

Luisberis Velazquez

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermodynamic time; complex time; entropy production; dissipative processes and structures; conservation theorems; local and non-local constraints; thermodynamics of information; system complexity; Riemannian geometries; generalised fluctuation theorems; dynamics and thermodynamics of systems with long-range interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Statistical Inference: Theory and Methods

edited by

Michel Broniatowski

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 87 | 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)

Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale

edited by Jan Mol

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 77 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum thermodynamics; thermal nanoelectronic devices; direct entropy measurements; quantum heat engines

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Evolution of Community Complexity

edited by

Takashi Ikegami

, Hiroki Kojima and Michael Crosscombe

submission deadline 1 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 253 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex systems; collective intelligence; evolutionary ecology; community; collective dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Entropy, Econophysics, and Complexity

edited by Alejandro Raúl Hernández-Montoya, Thomas Seligman,

J.E. Trinidad-Segovia

and Manan Vyas

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8651 | Submission Open

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

Adam Lipowski

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1583 | 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)

Information and Coding Theory for Distributed Learning, Storage, Scheduling, and Security

edited by Chi Wan Sung and

Kenneth Shum

submission deadline 10 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 198 | 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)

Goal-Oriented Communication: Freshness, Semantics, and Beyond

edited by Xingran Chen and Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

submission deadline 14 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1324 | 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)

Robustness and Resilience of Complex Networks

edited by Daniele Proverbio and Stefano Boccaletti

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7179 | 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)

Quantum and Classical Processes in Living Systems

edited by

Alessandro Sergi

and

Antonino Messina

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 6610 | 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)

Entanglement in Quantum Spin Systems

edited by

Leonardo dos Santos Lima

submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4069 | 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)

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