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Multiscale Entropy Approaches and Their Applications: Fourth Edition

edited by

Anne Humeau-Heurtier

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1221 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiscale entropy; approximate entropy; sample entropy; permutation entropy; fuzzy entropy; distribution entropy; dispersion entropy; ensemble entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Information Security

edited by Wei Yang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 872 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information Theory in Artificial Intelligence

edited by

Marco Piangerelli

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 760 | 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)

Quantum Thermal Machines

edited by

Nathan M. Myers

Francisco Peña

and

Sebastian Deffner

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 675 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum thermodynamics; quantum heat engines; quantum information engines; quantum statistical mechanics; open quantum systems; quantum work and heat; nonequilibrium thermodynamics; finite-time thermodynamics; cyclic thermal machines; autonomous and continuous thermal machines

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Evolution of Community Complexity

edited by

Takashi Ikegami

, Hiroki Kojima and Michael Crosscombe

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 372 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Information Theory for Future Communication Systems

edited by Min Li,

Lawrence Ong

, Congduan Li and

Mingmin Zhao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 312 | 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 Machine Learning with High-Dimensional Data and Image Analysis: Second Edition

edited by

Lei Wang

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 220 | Submission Open

Keywords: statistical machine learning; high-dimensional data; image processing; data mining; pattern recognition; deep learning; big data; computer vision; multimedia

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

Statistical and Physics-Based Interpretation of AI and Machine Learning Methods for Biomedical Data

edited by

Gastone C. Castellani

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 196 | Submission Open

Keywords: statistical interpretation of learning rules; diffusion processes in AI; complex networks; AI methods for biomedicine; integration of multi-omic data; AI for medical imaging; biophysics-inspired learning rules

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

Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Plasmas

edited by

Gianpiero Colonna

Annarita Laricchiuta

and

Elena Kustova

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 181 | 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)

Mathematical Modeling in Systems Biology, 2nd Edition

edited by

Pavel Kraikivski

submission deadline 9 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 928 | Submission Open

Keywords: mathematical modeling; biological systems; computational methods; network dynamics; systems-oriented approaches; data analysis tools; regulatory networks; complex biological mechanisms; mechanistic approaches

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

Information-Theoretic Approaches for Machine Learning and AI

edited by

Songze Li

and Linqi Song

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4113 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; coding theory; data compression; quantum computing; semantic information theory; statistical learning theory; reinforcement learning; large language models; federated learning; security and privacy; unbiasedness and fairness

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

Complexity and Synchronization in Time Series

edited by

Lev Guzmán-Vargas

and

Daniel Aguilar-Velázquez

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 935 | Submission Open

Keywords: time series synchronization; entropy analysis; fractal analysis; signaling networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Topics from the 2025 Biennial Symposium on Communications

edited by

Sébastien Roy

, Claude D’Amours,

Abdellah Chehri

and Dave Touchette

submission deadline 10 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 294 | Submission Open

Keywords: 6G; quantum communications; coding; signal processing; cybersecurity; ultra-low-power communications; massive MIMO; advanced beamforming; IoT; ultra-dense networks

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

Informational Coordinative and Teleological Control of Distributed and Multi Agent Systems

edited by

Eugene Kagan

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4739 | Submission Open

Keywords: distributed system; multi agent system; informational control; uncertainty; entropy criterions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

The Future of Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum AI, 2nd Edition

edited by

Andreas (Andrzej) Wichert

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1156 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum-inspired machine learning; quantum-inspired AI; quantum genetic algorithms; quantum machine learning applications; linear algebra-based quantum machine learning; quantum kernels; efficient preparation of data; quantum programming languages; variational algorithms; quantum decision trees; quantum neural networks; quantum annealing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum Mereologies and Quantum Inspired Set Theories and Logics

edited by

Federico Holik

and

Juan Pablo Jorge

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 191 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum mereology; quantum-inspired set theory; non-standard set theories; quasi-set theory; quasets theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Entropy and Optimal Control: Theory and Applications

edited by

Hanz Richter

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 168 | Submission Open

Keywords: optimal control; thermodynamic optimization; port-Hamiltonian systems; multi-domain systems; control theory; exergy and entropy generation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Entropy-Based Fault Diagnosis: From Theory to Applications

edited by

Xiaoan Yan

, Ling Xiang,

Jinde Zheng

and

Zhi-Xin Yang

submission deadline 16 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5263 | Submission Open

Keywords: information entropy; sample entropy; permutation entropy; fuzzy entropy; dispersion entropy; hierarchical entropy; multiscale entropy; condition monitoring; fault diagnosis; fault prognostics; anomaly detection; feature extraction; machinery equipment

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

Non-Equilibrium Quantum Many-Body Dynamics

edited by Ricardo Puebla and Fernando Gómez-Ruiz

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4462 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum annealing; adiabatic quantum computation; Kibble– Zurek mechanism; driven quantum systems; collective quantum phenomena; exploiting quantum coherence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Entropy Methods for Cardiorespiratory Coupling Analysis

edited by

Mirjana M. Platiša

Beatrice Cairo

and

Riccardo Pernice

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3361 | Submission Open

Keywords: cardiopulmonary coupling; exercise; pulmonary diseases; heart failure; nonstationary time series

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

Non-Extensive Entropies: Properties and Applications

edited by

Orlando Luongo

and

Hernando Quevedo

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 323 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-extensive entropy; thermodynamics; dark energy; dark matter; inflation; cosmological tensions; quantum gravity; observational cosmology; cosmological constant

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

Diagnosis and Prognosis of Incipient Faults Using Information Processing or Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

edited by

Claude Delpha

Demba Diallo

and

Khalid Dahi

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 161 | Submission Open

Keywords: incipient faults; resilience; statistical and information measures; machine and deep learning; predictive maintenance; cybersecurity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Bayesian Network and Signal Processing

edited by

Carlos Dias Maciel

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bayesian network; large-scale models; quantum-inspired network; distributed inference; probabilistic models

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

Synergy and Redundancy Measures: Theory and Applications to Characterize Complex Systems, Build Models, and Shape Neural Network Representations

edited by

Daniel Chicharro

submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 130 | Submission Open

Keywords: mutual information; synergy; redundancy; unique information; neural networks; disentanglement; feature extraction; representation learning; partial information decomposition; fairness

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

Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Algorithms

edited by Qi Zhao, Fei Shi and

Banghai Wang

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 461 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum entanglement; quantum algorithms; quantum computing; quantum simulation; quantum teleportation; quantum error correction; entanglement detection; quantum networks; quantum computational advantage; hybrid quantum-classical algorithms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Causal Inference in Recommender Systems

edited by Fuli Feng and Xu Chen

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11744 | Submission Open

Keywords: recommendation; causal inference; inference retrieval; ranking; information theory; information bottleneck; representation learning; counterfactual explanation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Active Inference in Cognitive Neuroscience

edited by

Ivilin Stoianov

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9012 | Submission Open

Keywords: active inference; predictive coding; free energy principle; prediction errors; neurocomputational modeling; perception; motor control; cognitive control; decision making; cognitive neuroscience; neuropsychology; psychiatry

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

Wireless Communications: Signal Processing Perspectives, 2nd Edition

edited by

Sébastien Roy

and Julian Cheng

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2977 | Submission Open

Keywords: antenna selection; massive MIMO; reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs); physical-layer security; cell-free MIMO; green communications; machine learning; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs); relaying and cooperation; self-organization; modulation and waveform design; integrated sensing and communication

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

Entropy Analysis of ECG and EEG Signals

edited by Marcelo Risk

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1658 | Submission Open

Keywords: heart rate variability; blood pressure variability; blood volume variability; and other cardiovascular time series; energy sub-band decomposition; inter-spike times; and other neurological time series; clinical applications of nonlinear times series analysis

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

Emergent Dynamics of Complex Systems: From Synchronization to Clustering

edited by Zhigang Zheng

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1645 | 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)

Cutting-Edge AI in Computational Bioinformatics

edited by Lin Gao and

Shixiong Zhang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1222 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; bioinformatics; single-cell; multi-omics integration; drug discovery; disease prediction; biomedical imaging; RNA/protein structure prediction; information theory; systems biology; explainable AI

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

Recent Advances in Refractory High Entropy Alloys, 2nd Edition

edited by

Yucheng Wu

and

Shunhua Chen

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1080 | Submission Open

Keywords: refractory high entropy alloy; high-temperature application; mechanical property; deformation mechanism; corrosion and oxidation behavior; radiation damage; tungsten alloy; refractory alloy; processing; nuclear application

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Decoding Earthquake Complexity: From Earthquake Ruptures and Slip Styles to Seismic Sequences and Faulting

edited by

Davide Zaccagnino

Filippos Vallianatos

and

Robert Shcherbakov

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 759 | Submission Open

Keywords: fault system behavior; complexity in seismicity; earthquake clustering; earthquake triggering; preparatory processes; complexity in faulting; fault slip styles; fractality; synchronization; earthquake cycle-related crustal deformation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Random Walks and Stochastic Processes in Complex Systems: From Physics to Socio-Economic Phenomena, Second Edition

edited by

Trifce Sandev

and

Alexander Iomin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 591 | Submission Open

Keywords: random walks; stochastic equations; kinetic equations; diffusion; geometric Brownian motion; voter model; econophysics; sociophysics

Dynamics Beyond the Hamiltonian: Dissipation in Classical Metriplectic Systems and Quantum Non-Unitary Systems

edited by

Massimo Materassi

and

Frédéric Barbaresco

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 490 | Submission Open

Keywords: metriplectic formalism; generic formalism; quantum open systems; dissipation; collisional plasmas; trophic webs with losses; maximum and minimum entropy production principles; non-unitary quantum systems; macroscopic limit of quantum systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Thermodynamic and Kinetic Equilibria of Complex Systems

edited by Mathieu Lazerges and Sylvain Marque

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 397 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; equilibrium; kinetics; thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Information Dynamics: Entropy-Driven Evolutionary Machine Learning

edited by

Diego Oliva

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 217 | 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)

Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology

edited by János A. Bergou

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 207 | 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)

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

edited by

Peter Strizhak

Necip B. Üner

and Rebecca Fushimi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Opportunities and Challenges of Network Science in the Age of AI

edited by Linyuan Lü and

Qingchun Meng

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 199 | Submission Open

Keywords: network science; complex networks; artificial intelligence (AI); graph machine learning; generative AI; entropy; statistical physics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Alive or Not Alive: Entropy and Living Things

edited by

Krzysztof Wojciech Fornalski

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 198 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonequilibrium statistical physics; stochastic thermodynamics; entropy dissipation; dissipative adaptation; self-adaptation; adaptive response; physics of life; nonlinear dynamics; complex systems; far-from-equilibrium

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

Thermodynamic Analysis and Process Intensification: Second Edition

edited by

Yasar Demirel

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermodynamic analysis; process intensification; process irreversibility; information processing; energy efficiency; resource conservation; energy conservation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Joint Sensing, Communication, and Computation

edited by

Onur Günlü

and Rafael Schaefer

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated sensing and communication (ISAC); future communication systems; trustworthy 6G; sensing-assisted communication; communication-assisted sensing

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

New Advances in Quantum Communications and Quantum Computing

edited by Mariella Minder and David Lucas

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 167 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum key distribution; quantum computing; quantum networks; quantum communication infrastructure; postquantum cryptography; quantum algorithms; quantum information theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Modeling, Analysis, and Computation of Complex Fluids

edited by Jia Zhao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: multiphase flows; complex fluids; continuum and kinetic theory; multiscale modeling; phase-field methods; non-equilibrium thermodynamics; structure-preserving numerical methods; entropy-based modeling; soft matter physics; scientific computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Information-Theoretic Approaches for Network Data Mining: Causality, Complexity and Scalability

edited by

Lianyong Qi

, Wenwen Gong, Yang Zhang,

Xuyun Zhang

and Yanwei Xu

submission deadline 1 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 127 | Submission Open

Keywords: networked systems; information theory; complex networks; algorithmic complexity; network data mining

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

Advancing Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning: Innovative Frameworks and Protocols

edited by

Lihua Wang

and

Rongxing Lu

submission deadline 9 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 310 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; privacy preserving; homomorphic encryption; differential privacy; secure multiparty computation; privacy-enhancing technologies; distributed AI; applied cryptography

Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing, Third Edition

edited by

and Marko S. Andjelković

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9334 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; neural networks; compression; entropy coding; speech and image processing; biomedical signal processing

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

Recent Advances in High Entropy Alloys

edited by Hui Xu and

Zhong Li

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9215 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-entropy alloys/materials; medium-entropy alloy/materials; alloy design; synthesis methods; magnetic properties; mechanical properties; electrocatalysis; irradiation; microstructure; modeling and simulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Percolation in the 21st Century

edited by Robert M. Ziff

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6744 | Submission Open

Keywords: percolation; explosive percolation; percolation on complex networks; physics; mathematics; engineering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

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