Entropy

Goal-Oriented Communication: Freshness, Semantics, and Beyond

edited by Xingran Chen and Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

submission deadline 8 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2479 | 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)

Entropy-Based Fault Diagnosis: From Theory to Applications

edited by

Xiaoan Yan

, Ling Xiang,

Jinde Zheng

and

Zhi-Xin Yang

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12145 | 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)

Causal Graphical Models and Their Applications, 2nd Edition

edited by Luis Enrique Sucar and Ruben Sanchez-Romero

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2233 | Submission Open

Keywords: causal graphical models; causal reasoning; causal discovery; applications of causal models

Phase Transitions in Complex and Nonequilibrium Systems: From Criticality to Topological and Active Matter

edited by Edson Denis Leonel, Diego Fregolent Mendes de Oliveira and

Chris G. Antonopoulos

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 831 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonequilibrium phase transitions; topological phase transitions; self-organized criticality; collective behavior; critical phenomena

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Information Dynamics and Control in Generative Cognitive Systems

edited by

Shlomo Dubnov

, Stas Tiomkin and

Stefan Lattner

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 228 | Submission Open

Keywords: information dynamics ; predictive information ; directed information ; generative systems ; interactive systems ; cognitive modeling ; control-oriented information ; temporal information measures

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

Mathematical Modeling in Systems Biology, 2nd Edition

edited by

Pavel Kraikivski

submission deadline 17 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1830 | 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)

Quantum Nonstationary Systems—Second Edition

edited by

Viktor Dodonov

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5749 | 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)

Quantum and Classical Mpemba Effects: From Theoretical Models to Practical Applications

edited by

Jixuan Hou

and Zhiyue Lu

submission deadline 20 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2730 | Submission Open

Keywords: Mpemba effect; nonequilibrium dynamics; anomalous relaxation; cooling protocols; quantum Mpemba effect; quantum thermal quench; Markovian dynamics; strong Mpemba effect; open quantum systems; non-equilibrium quantum dynamics; non-Markovian quantum dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

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 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1158 | 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)

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

edited by Chi Wan Sung and

Kenneth Shum

submission deadline 22 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3192 | 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)

Complexity Theories of Cities: Their Media and Their Messages

edited by

Juval Portugali

and Egbert Stolk

submission deadline 24 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 288 | Submission Open

Keywords: variety of complexities; mediated complexity; cross-domain complexity; analogical vs. incongruity reasoning; complex adaptive systems; synergetics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Geometric Machine Learning

edited by Pietro Giuseppe Fré

submission deadline 25 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 199 | Submission Open

Keywords: classification tasks; categorical perception; Riemannian geometry of network layers; covariance; equivariance; information geometry and geometrical thermodynamics; Lie groups and Lie algebras in machine learning; discrete groups and graph embeddings; tessellations of data manifolds; dimensional reduction; symmetric spaces; diffusion processes on Riemannian manifolds and on graphs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Convergence Rates for Markov Chains

edited by

Xiequan Fan

submission deadline 28 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 297 | Submission Open

Keywords: Markov chains; central limit theorems for Markov chains; convergence rates; asymptotic behaviour for Markov chains; Markov chains involved with stochastic differential equations; branching random walks; branching processes with or without random media

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

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

edited by

Avishy Carmi

and

Eliahu Cohen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4246 | 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)

Shortcut to Adiabaticity in Classical and Quantum Systems

edited by Jing Li and

Andreas Ruschhaupt

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3124 | Submission Open

Keywords: shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) schemes; enhanced-STA schemes; experimental implementation of STA schemes; machine learning for quantum control; atomic state population transfer; molecular manipulation; manipulation of external fields; quantum heat engines; quantum thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

New Advances in Quantum Communications and Quantum Computing

edited by Mariella Minder and David Lucas

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2667 | 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)

Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Machine Learning

edited by Shenggen Zheng

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1728 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum algorithms; quantum computational complexity; quantum machine learning; quantum circuit optimization; quantum circuit design automation; NISQ algorithms; variational quantum algorithms; quantum finite automata; quantum information processing; resource-efficient quantum computation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Advances in Time Series Analysis: Methods, Applications and Emerging Trends

edited by

Cun Ji

and

Bo Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1486 | Submission Open

Keywords: data mining; time series; entropy; feature extraction; classification

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

Fundamentals and Applications of Quantum Information and Quantum Optics

edited by Shahaf Asban and

Ángel S. Sanz

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1266 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information processing; quantum optics; quantum thermodynamics; quantum coherence; entanglement; non-equilibrium quantum systems; quantum interferometry; quantum energetics; quantum algorithms; open quantum systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Advances in Bayesian Statistics

edited by

Weining Shen

, Weixuan Zhu and Juan Miguel Marin

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1218 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bayesian machine learning; empirical bayes; approximate Bayesian computation; Bayesian optimization; hierarchical models; variational inference; Bayesian model selection; Gaussian processes; posterior approximation; Bayesian nonparametrics

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

Quantum Information—Dedicated to Professor Gilles Brassard on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

edited by Jian-Wei Pan, Artur Ekert, Barry C. Sanders and Feihu Xu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1024 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum communication; quantum algorithms; quantum repeaters; quantum network; quantum foundations; quantum random number generation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Analysis of Critical Behavior in Complex Systems

edited by

Gaogao Dong

and Duxin Chen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 706 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex system; complex networks; hypergraph network; census model; GNN; AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Analysis of the Structural Characteristics of Complex Networks Based on Entropy Measurement

edited by

Qi Zhang

and Yang Liu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 497 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex networks; entropy; structural analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Entropy, Exergy Analysis and Optimization for Refrigeration and Heat Pump Systems

edited by

Tatiana Morosuk

and

Muhammad Sultan

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 476 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy analysis; entropy analysis; exergy analysis; thermodynamic cycle; heat pump; refrigeration machine; irreversibility; exergy destruction; efficiency; optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Communication Networks, Second Edition

edited by

Yanli Xu

and

Shengming Jiang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 352 | Submission Open

Keywords: space– air– ground– sea integrated networks; resource management; topology discovery; network access protocols; communication protocols; network deployment; UAV ad hoc networks; satellite communications; maritime communications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Mathematical Foundation of Quantum Shannon Information Theory

edited by

Osamu Hirota

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 304 | Submission Open

Keywords: positive operator valued measure and instrument theory; mathematical theory for entangled measurement; quantum stochastic equation and fock space; quantum reliability function; quantum cut-off rate and coding; quantum kalman filter; mathematical theory for non-commutative parameter estimation; realization theory of holevo capacity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Non-Equilibrium Processes in Earth and Environmental Systems: Dynamics, Feedbacks, and Modeling Approaches

edited by Jun Yin,

Matteo Colangeli

, Kailiang Yu and

Bei Gao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 255 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-equilibrium phenomena; earth and environmental systems; climate extremes; artificial intelligence and machine learning; statistical mechanics

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

Spatial Statistics

edited by

Farouk Nathoo

and

Dani Gamerman

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 199 | Submission Open

Keywords: geostatistics; areal data; point pattern; stationarity; spatiotemporal models; spatial and temporal prediction; machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Nonlinear Phenomena in Fluid Dynamics

edited by Alexander B. Mikishev and Lev A. Ostrovsky

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonlinear fluid dynamics; complex fluids; bifurcations and transition; nonlinear waves; dynamical systems theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Recent Progress in High-Entropy Alloys

edited by

Reza Abbaschian

and Brittney Terry

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-entropy alloys; multi-principal element alloys; processing; functional properties; mechanical properties; strengthening; hardness; toughness

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Communications and Cryptography

edited by

Changho Hong

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum cryptography; quantum communications; quantum networks; quantum key distribution; quantum authentication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Modern Perspectives on the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Infodynamics

edited by

Roberto Zivieri

and

Israa Medlej

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5540 | Submission Open

Keywords: second law of thermodynamics; entropy; irreversibility; thermodynamic processes; information theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Entropy-Based Time Series Analysis: Theory and Applications

edited by

Felipe Olivares

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5473 | 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)

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 15 Oct 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1674 | 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)

Methods from Differential Topology and Differential Geometry in Information Geometry

edited by

Stéphane Puechmorel

,

Frank Nielsen

and

Frédéric Barbaresco

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 673 | Submission Open

Keywords: foliations; gauge structures; statistical manifolds; symplectic geometry; contact geometry; riemannian and sub-riemannian geometry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Key Distribution in Optical Communications

edited by Tao Wang,

Peng Huang

and

Qin Liao

submission deadline 15 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 193 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum key distribution; quantum random number generator; quantum network; optical communication; digital signal processing; quantum cryptography; quantum chips; physical cryptography; continuous variables; Gaussian quantum information

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum Physics: An Information Theory

edited by

Davi Geiger

submission deadline 20 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 454 | Submission Open

Keywords: Gibbs entropy; thermodynamic entropy; quantum entropy; quantum thermalization; black hole entropy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Random Walks and Stochastic Processes in Complex Systems: From Physics to Socio-Economic Phenomena, 2nd Edition

edited by

Trifce Sandev

and

Alexander Iomin

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2314 | Submission Open

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

Physical-Layer Security, Quantum Key Distribution and Post-Quantum Cryptography, 3rd Edition

edited by Ivan Djordjevic

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 608 | Submission Open

Keywords: physical-layer security; quantum key distribution (QKD); post-quantum cryptography; quantum enhanced cryptography; stealth communication; covert communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Complexity Features and Blockchain Foundations of the Digital Instruments Market

edited by

Marcin Wątorek

,

Stanisław Drożdż

and

Jarosław Kwapień

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital instruments; cryptocurrencies; blockchain; decentralized exchanges (DEXs); on-chain markets; decentralized finance (DeFi); automated market makers (AMMs); market microstructure; tokenization; smart contracts; information transfer; nonextensive entropy; complexity measures; complex networks; time series analysis; multiscaling; cross-correlations market efficiency; liquidity; price discovery; systemic risk; blockchain economics; hedging opportunities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

The Information-Theoretic Approach in Density Functional Theory and Beyond

edited by Shubin Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9641 | Submission Open

Keywords: Shannon entropy; Fisher information; Ré nyi entropy; information gain; Kullback– Leibler divergence; chemical reactivity; electrophilicity; nucleophilicity; Hirshfeld charge; entanglement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Applications of Information-Theoretic Concepts for Generative AI Systems

edited by

Deniz Gençağa

and Rita Singh

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2341 | Submission Open

Keywords: information-theoretic learning; generative artificial intelligence; deep generative models; transformer architectures; variational autoencoders (VAEs); generative adversarial networks (GANs); diffusion probabilistic models; large language models (LLMs)

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

Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning and Distributed Computation

edited by

Xiang Zhang

and Mingyue Ji

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1919 | Submission Open

Keywords: federated learning; secure aggregation; distributed computing; information-theoretic security; privacy-preserving machine learning; secret key generation; communication efficiency; linearly separable distributed computation; robustness

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

Review Papers for Entropy, Second Edition

edited by

J. Miguel Rubi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1150 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy Reviews)

Entropy: Exploring Complexity and Information in Science

edited by

Miguel Rubi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1006 | Submission Open

Keywords: complexity; information theory; entropy; quantum information; non-equilibrium systems; statistical physics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Entropy in Relativistic Fluid Dynamics and Magnetohydrodynamics and Its Implications to the Cosmological Dark Energy and Dark Matter Problems

edited by

Asher Yahalom

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 930 | Submission Open

Keywords: relativistic dynamics; non-barotropic (entropy-dependent) fluid dynamics and magnetohydrodynamics; topological conservation laws in entropy-dependent flow dynamics; dark matter; dark energy

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

Thermodynamics and Climate Change

edited by

Ivan Kennedy

, James Chapman and Migdat Hodzic

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 538 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermodynamics; climate change; Gibbs energy; statistical mechanics; environmental chemistry; quantum field theory; climate science

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Information Theory and AI-Driven Communications

edited by

Xinping Yi

and

Abdellatif Zaidi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 464 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI-driven communications; information theory; artificial intelligence; multi-input multi-output (MIMO); channel coding

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

Information-Theoretic Perspectives on Integrated Sensing and Communication

edited by

Giorgio Taricco

,

Giuseppe Caire

and Marco Di Renzo

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 325 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated sensing and communication; sensing– communication tradeoffs; ISAC information theory; learning-assisted ISAC; AI-enabled sensing and communication; rate– distortion for ISAC; satellite and non-terrestrial ISAC; distributed and federated ISAC; massive MIMO and mmWave/THz ISAC

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

Causal Entropy and Directed Information for Risk, Resilience, and Decision Support

edited by Louis Anthony Cox

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 261 | Submission Open

Keywords: causal entropy; directed information; transfer entropy; information decomposition; decision support; adaptive risk management; resilience; complex sociotechnical systems; adaptive control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

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