Entropy

Entropy in Adaptive Learning Systems: Modeling Uncertainty, Information Dynamics and Personalized Education

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submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 247 | 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)

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

edited by

Jixuan Hou

and Zhiyue Lu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 243 | 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)

Causal Graphical Models and Their Applications, 2nd Edition

edited by Luis Enrique Sucar and Ruben Sanchez-Romero

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 239 | Submission Open

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

Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning and Distributed Computation

edited by

Xiang Zhang

and Mingyue Ji

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 123 | 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)

Advances in Bayesian Statistics

edited by

Weining Shen

, Weixuan Zhu and Juan Miguel Marin

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 123 | 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)

Entropy and Dissipation in Non-Collisional Space Plasmas

edited by Giuseppe Consolini and

Simone Benella

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-collisional space plasmas; entropy; dissipation; turbulence; complexity

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

Fundamentals and Applications of Quantum Information and Quantum Optics

edited by Shahaf Asban and

Ángel S. Sanz

submission deadline 28 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 108 | 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)

Quantum Nonstationary Systems—Second Edition

edited by

Viktor Dodonov

submission deadline 1 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1516 | 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)

Information Theory and AI-Driven Communications

edited by

Xinping Yi

and

Abdellatif Zaidi

submission deadline 1 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 148 | 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)

Discrete Math in Coding Theory, 2nd Edition

edited by

Patrick Solé

submission deadline 2 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 978 | 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)

Explaining Economic and Social Science Phenomena Through Physical Models, Second Edition

edited by

Marcin Makowski

and

Jan Sładkowski

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4937 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy and fisher information; quantum games; econophysics; decision making/analysis; quantum market game; quantum-like models; social science; quantum finances

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Dissipative Physical Dynamics

edited by Katalin Mária Gambár

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1777 | 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)

Coding and Signal Processing for Data Storage Systems

edited by Kui Cai and

Tuan Thanh Nguyen

submission deadline 15 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 816 | 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)

Density Estimation in the Era of AI

edited by Jeffrey D. Hart

submission deadline 16 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open

Keywords: probability density estimation; high-dimensional data; neural networks; nonparametric methods; machine learning

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

Recent Progress in Uncertainty Measures

edited by

Xinyang Deng

and

Yong Deng

submission deadline 17 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 413 | 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)

The Mathematics of Structured Experience: Exploring Dynamics, Topology, and Complexity in the Brain

edited by

Giulio Ruffini

,

Johannes Kleiner

and

Ryota Kanai

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9914 | Submission Open

Keywords: mathematical theories of consciousness; Kolmogorov complexity; AIT; manifold hypothesis; symmetry; world models; dynamics; topology; AI

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

Multi-Scale Information Dynamics in Neural Circuits: Theoretical, Computational and Experimental Perspectives

edited by

Giampiero Bardella

, Liming Pan and Gianni Valerio Vinci

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 244 | Submission Open

Keywords: neural dynamics; statistical physics; collective behavior in networks; information theory; dynamical systems; causality; graph theory; network theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

A Contemporary Triad in Quantum Foundations: Correlational, Compositional, and Causal Structures

edited by Ana Belén Sainz and

Marco Erba

submission deadline 20 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 95 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundations; correlational phenomena; compositional structures; causal structures; higher-order causal structures; quantum correlations; Bell’ s theorem

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Complexities: Their Media and Their Messages

edited by

Juval Portugali

and Egbert Stolk

submission deadline 23 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 79 | 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)

Quantum Foundations: 100 Years of Born’s Rule

edited by

Dustin Lazarovici

submission deadline 25 Mar 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8743 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundations; Born rule; probability in quantum mechanics; quantum measurement theory; quantum statistical mechanics; interpretations of the wave function

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Interdisciplinary Statistical Physics, Neural Computation, and Complex Systems

edited by Marcelo Arlego and

Fernando Montani

submission deadline 30 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open

Keywords: neural computation; stochastic thermodynamics; physics-informed neural networks (PINNs); criticality in neural systems; entropy-driven learning; information theory in biology; neural network dynamics; active matter in neuroscience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Statistical Mechanics of Lattice Gases

edited by Antonio J. Ramirez-Pastor and Jose Luis Riccardo

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8486 | Submission Open

Keywords: fundamentals of lattice gases; equilibrium thermodynamics; adsorption; phase transitions and critical phenomena; transport phenomena and kinetics; surface diffusion; lattice gases in complex systems; quantum lattice gases

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Complexity of Social Networks

edited by Zi-Ke Zhang, Junming Huang, Xiaoke Xu and Quanhui Liu

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7565 | Submission Open

Keywords: social networks; social media; network structure dynamics; echo chambers; collective behavior; AI in social networks; information diffusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Modern Perspectives on the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Infodynamics

edited by

Roberto Zivieri

and

Israa Medlej

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1949 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Uncertainty Quantification and Entropy Analysis

edited by

Marcin Kamiński

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1240 | 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)

Mathematical Modeling for Ion Channels

edited by

Agata Wawrzkiewicz-Jałowiecka

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1073 | 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 31 Mar 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 479 | 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)

Deep Generative Models for Simulating Physical Systems

edited by

Kim Andrea Nicoli

, Lei Wang and

Anindita Maiti

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open

Keywords: generative models; variational inference; amortized inference; lattice field theory; monte Carlo methods; normalizing flows; autoregressive models; statistical learning theory; Bayesian learning; neural networks quantum states; enhanced sampling; variational free energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Kolmogorov Complexity and Applications—Dedicated to Professor Paul Vitanyi on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

edited by Ming Li

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open

Keywords: Kolmogorov complexity; randomness; compression and LLM; information distance; theory; and applications

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

Methods from Differential Topology and Differential Geometry in Information Geometry

edited by

Stéphane Puechmorel

,

Frank Nielsen

and

Frédéric Barbaresco

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 148 | 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)

The Information Bottleneck Method: Theory and Applications

edited by

Shujian Yu

and Robert Jenssen

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 141 | Submission Open

Keywords: information bottleneck; neural networks; deep learning generalization; explainable neural networks; deep reinforcement learning; multimodal learning; self-supervised learning; graph neural networks

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

Quantum Physics: An Information Theory

edited by

Davi Geiger

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 120 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Quantum Criticality and Emergent Phases in Strongly Correlated and Frustrated Materials

edited by

Sangyun Lee

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 109 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum phase transition; quantum critical point (QCP); quantum spin liquids; strongly correlated electron systems; unconventional superconductivity; frustrated materials; non-Fermi liquid behavior; competing orders and emergent phases

Mutual Information in Statistical Learning

edited by Philip E. Cheng and Michelle Liou

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: conditional mutual information; discrete data analysis; entropy; feature selection; mutual information

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

Applications of Information-Theoretic Concepts for Generative AI Systems

edited by

Deniz Gençağa

and Rita Singh

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 87 | 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)

Open Quantum Systems Applied to Quantum Computation

edited by

Nadja Bernardes

and Francesco Petruccione

submission deadline 31 Mar 2026 | Viewed by 82 | 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)

Advances in Probabilistic Machine Learning

edited by Martin Trapp and

Pierre Alquier

submission deadline 16 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5776 | Submission Open

Keywords: probabilistic machine learning; approximate Bayesian inference; variational inference; tractable probabilistic inference; Bayesian deep learning; probabilistic circuits; uncertainty quantification

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

Entropy in Quantum Systems and Quantum Field Theory (QFT): Gravity, 3rd Edition

edited by

Ignazio Licata

submission deadline 17 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3426 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum open systems and nonequilibrium quantum field theory; quantum fields background and particle creation; dissipative dynamics in QM and QFT; quantum entropies; noise; and fluctuations; coherence and decoherence in quantum systems; entanglement entropy in quantum field theory; nonequilibrium quantum processes in the early universe; Bekenstein-Hawking entropy; Ryu– Takayanagi entropy; holographic approaches; space time thermodynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Aspects of Social Dynamics: Models and Concepts

edited by

Nikolay K. Vitanov

submission deadline 27 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4009 | Submission Open

Keywords: mathematical models; social systems; statistical physics; thermodynamics; mathematical biology; mathematical sociology; nonlinear dynamics; game theory; time series analysis; theory of networks; social sciences; animal societies; human societies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Entropy: From Atoms to Complex Systems

edited by

Caroline Desgranges

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3495 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy; entropy production; machine learning; Monte Carlo; molecular dynamics; fluctuation theorems; thermodynamics; statistical physics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Information Theory and Data Compression

edited by Tsachy Weissman

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1568 | 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-Based Applications in Economics, Finance, and Management, 4th Edition

edited by

Joanna Olbryś

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 855 | 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)

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 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 461 | 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)

Information Theory for Data Science, AI and Machine Learning

edited by

Irad Ben-Gal

and

Amichai Painsky

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 142 | 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)

Unraveling Water–Nanomaterial Interactions

edited by

Qing Huang

and

Amil Aligayev

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanomaterials; nanoparticles; proteins; water interface; hydration; thermodynamics; kinetics; surface chemistry; self-assembly; colloidal stability; biocompatibility; confined water; spectroscopy; molecular dynamics; density functional theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era, Second Edition

edited by Xiao Yuan, Xiaoming Zhang and Bujiao Wu

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 121 | 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)

Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information, 3rd Edition

edited by

Yi-Cheng Zhang

and

Shimin Cai

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 106 | 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)

Energy Transition: Exergy, Emissions and Optimization

edited by

Monica Carvalho

and

Adriano Da Silva Marques

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open

Keywords: life cycle assessment; thermoeconomics; exergoeconomics; exergoenvironmental assessment; energy optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Data Analysis for Complex Systems

edited by Ixandra Achitouv

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open

Keywords: data-driven analysis in complex systems; machine learning and complex systems; stochastic propagation in networks; chaos; criticality; and emerging phenomena; data analysis and multi-scaled simulations; noise and signal in complex systems

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

Private Information Retrieval and Its Applications

edited by

Sajani Vithana

and

Syed A. Jafar

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 63 | 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)

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