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Quantum Measurement, Gravitation and Entropy
edited by Zhongkun Hu, Yongchang Han, and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 324 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum precision measurement; gravitation; entanglement; measurement noise; decoherence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Advances in Quantum Cryptography submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 277 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum communication; quantum key distribution; quantum teleportation; integrated photonics; quantum communication infrastructure; quantum energy analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Thermodynamic Modeling and Analysis of Thermoelectric Cooling Systems
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open
Keywords: thermoelectric cooling systems; thermodynamic modeling; thermal management optimization; energy conversion; self-powered technology; smart chips; electronic device thermal management; technological innovation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Edge Modes, Impurities, and Phase Transitions in One-Dimensional Quantum Matter
edited by Natan Andrei
submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 144 | Submission Open
Keywords: open system; boundary; impurity; conformal; topological; symmetry-protected; fractionalized modes; quantum information; entanglement; quench; dissipation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
Quantum Error Correction and Fault-Tolerance
edited by , Ke Liu and
submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3254 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum error correction; fault-tolerant quantum computing; hardware-aware QEC strategies; scalable decoding architectures; quantum LDPC code; surface code; color code
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Opportunities and Challenges of Network Science in the Age of AI
edited by Linyuan Lü and
submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 944 | 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)
Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 228 | Submission Open
Keywords: nanoscale; microscale; heat transfer; numerical calculation; experimental investigation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Joint Sensing, Communication, and Computation submission deadline 20 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1617 | 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)
Channel Modeling in Terahertz Wireless Communications: Information Theoretic Perspectives
edited by Maryam Olyaee and Juan Manuel Romero‐Jerez
submission deadline 20 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 322 | Submission Open
Keywords: terahertz (THz) wireless channel modeling; information-theoretic capacity analysis; ultra-massive MIMO and beamforming; blockage and beam misalignment effects; hardware constraints; THz system design
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Opinion Dynamics: Applications and Fundamentals
edited by Carmela Bernardo and
submission deadline 20 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 295 | Submission Open
Keywords: opinion dynamics models; opinion formation; sociophysical modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Diagnosis and Prognosis of Incipient Faults Using Information Processing or Machine Learning, and Deep Learning submission deadline 27 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1890 | 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)
Kolmogorov Complexity and Applications: Theoretical Achievements and Practical Tools
edited by Dragutin T. Mihailović
submission deadline 30 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4583 | Submission Open
Keywords: information theory; machine learning and data analysis; quantum computing; cryptography; Lempel– Ziv algorithm (engineering; geosciences; cardiology; neurology oncology; image analysis; language); Kolmogorov complexity spectrum (astrophysics and cosmology; Bell's experiment; earth sciences; financial issues; psychophysics; and philosophical issues)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Thermodynamic Optimization of Energy Systems submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11048 | Submission Open
Keywords: thermodynamics; energy optimization; sustainable energy systems; multi-objective optimization; emission reduction strategies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Entropy in Biomedical Engineering, 3rd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9301 | Submission Open
Keywords: entropy; approximate entropy; sample entropy; nonlinear analysis; biomedical engineering; entropy in biomedical applications; entropy in biomedical signals analysis; entropy in biomedical imaging; entropy in machine learning; fast computation of entropy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Wireless Communications: Signal Processing Perspectives, 2nd Edition
edited by and Julian Cheng
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7728 | 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)
Time in Quantum Mechanics
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4663 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum time; quantum gravity; time operator; retrocausality; quantum clocks
(This special issue belongs to the Section Time)
Entropy Analysis of ECG and EEG Signals
edited by Marcelo Risk
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4010 | 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)
Recent Progress in Uncertainty Measures
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2840 | Submission Open
Keywords: epistemic uncertainty; entropy and extropy; information theory; Deng entropy; plausibility entropy; fuzzy entropy; uncertainty reasoning; uncertain information fusion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Alive or Not Alive: Entropy and Living Things submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2626 | 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)
Graph Theory and Its Applications in Quantum Mechanics submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2235 | Submission Open
Keywords: graph theory; quantum graphs; quantum walks; graph states; quantum state transfer; spin chains; quantum networks; quantum transport; filtering devices; metamaterials
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Next-Generation Multiple Access for Future Wireless Communications
edited by Chongjun Ouyang, Jia Guo and Xingqi Zhang
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1930 | Submission Open
Keywords: next-generation multiple access; information-theoretic techniques; ubiquitous connectivity; artificial intelligence and communications; integrated sensing and communications; electromagnetic signal and information theory; network intelligence; advanced modulation and coding; novel waveform design; MIMO evolutions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Modeling, Analysis, and Computation of Complex Fluids
edited by Jia Zhao
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1909 | 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)
Complexity in High-Energy Physics: A Nonadditive Entropic Perspective submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1744 | Submission Open
Keywords: Tsallis entropy; nonadditive statistics; high-energy physics; power-law distributions; complexity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
Advancing Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning: Innovative Frameworks and Protocols
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1587 | Submission Open
Keywords: federated learning; privacy preserving; homomorphic encryption; differential privacy; secure multiparty computation; privacy-enhancing technologies; distributed AI; applied cryptography
Physical Layer Security for Next-Generation Wireless Networks: Theory, Technologies, and Applications
edited by , , Xin Zhang and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1255 | Submission Open
Keywords: physical layer security; secure communication; covert communication; information-theoretic security; key generation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Bayesian Network and Signal Processing
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 939 | 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)
Port-Hamiltonian Methods
edited by , Stefano Stramigioli and Ramy Rashad
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 882 | Submission Open
Keywords: port-Hamiltonian modelling; port-Hamiltonian control; boundary control methods for port-Hamiltonian distributed parameter systems; mathematical methods using port-Hamiltonian formulations; discretization and numerical methods using port-Hamiltonian framework; port-Hamiltonian description of multi-physics field theories; port-Hamiltonian description of quantum systems; port-based modelling of thermodynamically irreversible processes; port-based description of entropy creation; simulations of multi-physics systems using port-Hamiltonian theory; machine learning methods for identification and control using port-Hamiltonian theory; applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Non-Hermitian Quantum Systems: Emergent Phenomena and New Paradigms
edited by Ruizhe Shen and Ching Hua Lee
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 742 | Submission Open
Keywords: non-Hermitian quantum systems; non-unitary dynamics; open quantum systems; parity– time (PT) symmetry; exceptional points; non-Hermitian topology; non-Hermitian skin effect; biorthogonal quantum mechanics; entanglement dynamics; measurement-induced phenomena; dissipative quantum systems; post-selected quantum dynamics; quantum simulators; non-Hermitian phase transitions; Lindblad dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
Information-Theoretic Principles for Advanced Clustering and Structured Representation Learning
edited by , and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 737 | Submission Open
Keywords: advanced clustering theory; automatic clustering; clustering algorithms; information-theoretic clustering; structured representation learning; parameter-free and self-tuning methods; unsupervised and semi-supervised learning; manifold learning and dimensionality reduction; outlier and anomaly detection; data analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Quantum Mereologies and Quantum Inspired Set Theories and Logics submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 407 | 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)
Complex Networks and Their Applications—in Memory of Prof. Erik Bollt
edited by and Jeremie Fish
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open
Keywords: complexity; networks; information theory; entropy; dynamical systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Uncertainty Quantification and Robustness in Modern Artificial Intelligence
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 234 | Submission Open
Keywords: epistemic and aleatoric uncertainty; uncertainty quantification; bayesian deep learning; calibration; robustness; statistical learning; generalisation; model adaptation; safety
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Dynamics in Biological and Social Networks, Second Edition
edited by Luiz Henrique Alves Monteiro
submission deadline 10 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 742 | Submission Open
Keywords: agent-based model; cellular automata; complex network; dynamical systems; entropy measures; game theory; social media; social network; systems biology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Insight into Entropy submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12044 | Submission Open
Keywords: Everett– Hirschman entropy; Von Neumann entropy; Shannon entropy; Ré nyi entropy; Tsallis entropy; quantum theory; nonlinear optics; logarithmic Schrö dinger equation; superfluids; superconductors; emergent gravity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Information Theory and Entropy Methods in Security Information Processing and Its Applications submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1597 | Submission Open
Keywords: information theory; entropy methods; information security and data privacy; anomaly detection; biometric systems; cryptography; network security; machine learning in security; quantum information processing; cybersecurity; stochastic processes in security; secure communication
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Uncertainty-Aware Feature Learning and Anomaly Detection for Unlabeled Complex Data
edited by , and Keyu Liu
submission deadline 17 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 821 | Submission Open
Keywords: uncertainty modeling; uncertain information processing; feature selection; anomaly/outlier detection; granular computing; rough sets; fuzzy sets; entropy; high-dimensional data; representation learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
The Landauer Principle in Physics, Biophysics, Engineering and Computer Science: From Foundations of Thermodynamics to Computer Engineering
edited by
submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5191 | Submission Open
Keywords: Landauer principle; entropy; information; the second law of thermodynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Entropy Method for Decision Making with Uncertainty, 2nd Edition submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 264 | Submission Open
Keywords: rough sets; fuzzy sets; expert systems; distributed learning; multi-criteria decision making (MCDM); game theory; decision making; uncertainty; decision support systems; information fusion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Advances in IoT Security and Privacy
edited by and Yasuyuki Nogami
submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 776 | Submission Open
Keywords: information-theoretic security; entropy-based privacy; uncertainty quantification in IoT; lightweight cryptography with entropic guarantees; stochastic intrusion detection; information flow in blockchain-IoT systems; entropy-driven trust models; secure architectures via mutual information bounds
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Thermodynamic Speed Limits in Quantum and Classical Systems
edited by Erez Aghion and
submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 406 | Submission Open
Keywords: uncertainty relations; information thermodynamics; optimal control; open quantum and classical
(This special issue belongs to the Section Non-equilibrium Phenomena)
Quantum Measurement
edited by Marcin Wieśniak
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7143 | Submission Open
Keywords: foundations of physics; quantum measurement; quantum collapse; non-demolishing quantum measurements; emergence of classicality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)
Information Processing in Complex Biological Systems
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4889 | Submission Open
Keywords: information theory; complex biological or adaptive systems; knowledge distillation; model compression; neural networks; information entropy; system optimization; computational efficiency; low-rank representations; resource-constrained computing; biological information processing; artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Dissipative Physical Dynamics
edited by Katalin Mária Gambár
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4660 | Submission Open
Keywords: dissipation; irreversibility; nonequilibrium processes; entropy; state reconstruction; classical and quantum transport; decoherence; material structure; cosmological model; electrical losses; electromagnetic wave absorption; thermalization; complex systems; coupled systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
Entropy, Statistical Evidence, and Scientific Inference: Evidence Functions in Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2814 | Submission Open
Keywords: entropy; evidential statistics; evidence; hypothesis testing; information theory; Kullback– Leibler discrepancy; model misspecification; model selection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
Wireless Physical Layer Security Toward 6G
edited by Hui-Ming Wang, Feng Shu, , Bin Dai and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1859 | Submission Open
Keywords: wireless physical layer security; physical layer secrecy transmission; physical layer key agreement; physical layer authentication; physical layer security for ISAC; AI driven physical layer security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
Complexity of AI
edited by Siew Ann Cheong, Ling Feng and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 862 | Submission Open
Keywords: complexity science; artificial intelligence; neural networks; statistical physics; phase transitions; dynamical systems; self-organization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing, 4th Edition
edited by , , , Marko S. Andjelković and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 788 | 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)
Modified Gravity: From Black Hole Entropy to Modern Cosmology
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 575 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum aspects of black holes; evaporation; thermodynamics; black hole entropy; modified theories of gravity; dark energy; inflationary cosmology; observational cosmology; physics in the early universe; astrophysics of compact objects
(This special issue belongs to the Section Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes)
Causal Representation Learning with Its Applications
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 418 | Submission Open
Keywords: causal representation learning; causal discovery; invariant representations; transfer learning; complex networks; domain adaptation; complex systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)
Information Processing in Neuromorphic Systems submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 353 | Submission Open
Keywords: neuromorphic computing; neuromorphic architectures; neuromorphic engineering; neuromorphic systems; neuron-based computation; neural-inspired computation; artificial neurons; complex neurology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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