Entropy

Alive or Not Alive: Entropy and Living Things

edited by

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 125 | 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)

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 110 | 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)

Thermodynamic Analysis and Process Intensification: Second Edition

edited by

Yasar Demirel

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 109 | 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)

New Advances in Quantum Communications and Quantum Computing

edited by Mariella Minder and David Lucas

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 89 | 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)

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 | Viewed by 87 | 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 | Viewed by 85 | Submission Open

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

Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology

edited by János A. Bergou

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 83 | 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)

Modeling, Analysis, and Computation of Complex Fluids

edited by Jia Zhao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 83 | 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)

Joint Sensing, Communication, and Computation

edited by

Onur Günlü

and Rafael Schaefer

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 73 | 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)

Entropy Analysis of ECG and EEG Signals

edited by Marcelo Risk

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 70 | 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)

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 49 | 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)

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 61 | 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 56 | Submission Open

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

Percolation in the 21st Century

edited by Robert M. Ziff

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4548 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing, Third Edition

edited by

,

,

,

and Marko S. Andjelković

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4140 | 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)

Bayesian Networks and Causal Discovery

edited by Xiaoguang Gao and Zidong Wang

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1130 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bayesian network; directed acyclic graphs; causal discovery; structural equation model; structure learning; parameter learning; causal inference; neural networks and their applications

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

Inverse Problems: Advanced Methods and Innovative Applications

edited by

Andrea Murari

,

Teddy Craciunescu

and Ivan Wyss

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 695 | Submission Open

Keywords: parameter estimation; Bayesian statistics; machine learning; neural computation; genetic programming; image processing; information theory; network theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Spectral Graph Theory, Topological Indices of Graph, and Entropy: Second Edition

edited by

Kinkar Chandra Das

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 350 | Submission Open

Keywords: algebraic graph theory; topological indices of graphs; structural graph theory; pure graph theory; energy of graphs; combinatorics; discrete mathematics; extremal graph theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Error Correction and Fault-Tolerance

edited by

Jianxin Chen

, Ke Liu and

Linghang Kong

submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 82 | 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)

Entropy Method for Decision Making with Uncertainty

edited by

Małgorzata Przybyła-Kasperek

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10737 | 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)

Thermodynamics and Climate Change

edited by

Ivan Kennedy

, James Chapman and Migdat Hodzic

submission deadline 20 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 96 | 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)

Network- and Information-Theoretic Approaches in the Study of Action and Perception

edited by Ioannis Delis and David O’Reilly

submission deadline 25 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1077 | Submission Open

Keywords: synergy; redundancy; encoding; decoding; brain networks; muscle networks; interaction information; population coding; EEG; EMG

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

Entropy in Biomedical Engineering, 3rd Edition

edited by

George Manis

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1764 | 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)

Bayesian Hierarchical Models with Applications

edited by Maura Mezzetti and

Ilia Negri

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1174 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bayesian inference; MCMC; multilevel model; random effects; model comparison; posterior distributions; Stan

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

Advances in Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control: From Classical Approaches to AI-Driven Solutions

edited by

Joseph J. Yame

submission deadline 30 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 30 | Submission Open

Keywords: fault detection and diagnosis (FDD); fault-tolerant control (FTC); model-based methods; data-driven control; machine learning for control systems; reinforcement learning; uncertainty quantification; information– theoretic analysis; control reconfiguration; cyber– physical systems’ resilience

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

Thermodynamics of Dissipative Structures and Related Emergent Phenomena

edited by Hisashi Ozawa and

Robert Niven

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9800 | Submission Open

Keywords: non-equilibrium thermodynamics; physical kinetics; dissipative structure; entropy production; pattern formation; nonlinear process; emergent phenomena; self-organization; fractal structure

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

The Information-Theoretic Approach in Density Functional Theory and Beyond

edited by Shubin Liu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1341 | 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)

Information-Theoretic Advances and Emerging Technologies for Cognitive Radio Systems

edited by

Diluka Galappaththige

,

Chintha Tellambura

and MohammadAli Mohammadi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 265 | Submission Open

Keywords: cognitive radio systems; information theory; entropy/entropy-based analysis; spectrum sensing; dynamic spectrum access; interference management; adaptive coding; rate-distortion theory; energy-efficient communication; machine learning for CRSs; optimization

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

Quantum Dynamics in Hybrid Systems

edited by

Haobin Wang

and

Ofir E. Alon

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum mechanics; atomic; molecular; optical; and chemical physics; condensed matter theory; molecular dynamics; other fields involving theoretical aspects of quantum– classical and light– matter interactions

(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 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 175 | 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)

Structure, Dynamics, Phase Behavior and Applications of the Complex Disordered Systems

edited by Gang Sun and Jiaxing Yuan

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open

Keywords: liquid; glass; phase transition; critical phenomena; crystallization; glass transition; liquid– liquid phase transition; phase separation; electrostatic interactions; hydrodynamics; self-organization; dynamics of macromolecular systems; rheology behaviors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Review Papers for Entropy, Second Edition

edited by

J. Miguel Rubi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 163 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Entropy Reviews)

Shortcut to Adiabaticity in Classical and Quantum Systems

edited by Jing Li and

Andreas Ruschhaupt

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 146 | 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)

Graph Theory and Its Applications in Quantum Mechanics

edited by

Fabiano Manoel de Andrade

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 85 | 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)

The Thermodynamics of Social Processes

edited by

Alexander V. Mantzaris

and

George-Rafael Domenikos

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 82 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermodynamics; social physics; sociophysics; computational sociology; entropy; energy; urban studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Information Theory and Entropy Methods in Security Information Processing and Its Applications

edited by

Carlos M. Travieso-González

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 65 | 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)

Thermodynamic Optimization of Industrial Energy Systems, 2nd Edition

edited by

Daniel Flórez-Orrego

and

Meire Ellen Ribeiro Domingos

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 62 | Submission Open

Keywords: technoeconomic assessment; sustainability; industrial processes; optimization; energy integration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Port-Hamiltonian Methods

edited by

Federico Califano

, Stefano Stramigioli and Ramy Rashad

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 62 | 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)

Quantum Correlations in Spacetime

edited by

Vlatko Vedral

and

Xiangjing Liu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information; quantum spatiotemporal correlations; quantum comb or process tensor; signalling quantum games; quantum causal inference; measurement effects; quantum thermodynamics; quantum dimension reduction; quantum error correction for spatiotemporal errors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Complexity in High-Energy Physics: A Nonadditive Entropic Perspective

edited by

Bhattacharyya Trambak

and

Maciej Rybczynski

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open

Keywords: Tsallis entropy; nonadditive statistics; high-energy physics; power-law distributions; complexity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Information Processing in Neuromorphic Systems

edited by

Craig M. Vineyard

and

Stephen J. Verzi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 45 | 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)

Quantum Information and Probability: From Foundations to Engineering IV

edited by

Andrei Khrennikov

submission deadline 1 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 263 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundations; quantum probability; quantum measurement; quantum-like modeling; quantum information; quantum mechanics; quantum decision making; quantum cognition; quantum biology; quantum computers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Network-Based Machine Learning Approaches in Bioinformatics

edited by

Zhi-Ping Liu

submission deadline 8 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 154 | Submission Open

Keywords: networks; machine learning; bioinformatics; systems biomedicine; deep learning; graph neural networks; biomolecular interactions; biomarker discovery; context-specific pathways in diseases

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

On Synergies Between Chemical Reaction Networks, Mathematical Epidemiology and Population Dynamics

edited by

Florin Avram

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 196 | Submission Open

Keywords: CRN; auto-catalytic CRN; stoichiometric matrix; Feinberg– Horn– Jackson graph; petri/Volpert/DSR graph; species graph; reaction variables; robust lyapunov function; robust non-oscillation; k-contraction; fixed points; Hopf and Bogdanov– Takens bifurcations; Routh– Hurwitz-Lié nard– Chipart criteria; scientific computing; real algebraic geometry; resultants; Groebner bases; stochastic continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) CRN; escape paths; Hamiltonian ODE

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Quantum Key Distribution and Its Applications

edited by Shihai Sun

submission deadline 10 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 31 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum information processing; single photon imaging; quantum cryptography; quantum optics; quantum measurement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Dynamics in Complex Neural Networks, 2nd Edition

edited by

Ivanka Stamova

,

Gani Stamov

,

Trayan Stamov

and Cvetelina Spirova

submission deadline 17 Feb 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1101 | Submission Open

Keywords: stability theory and strategies; control theory; extended stability strategies; delayed neural networks; impulsive neural networks; fractional-order neural networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

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 20 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 102 | 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)

Quantum Measurement

edited by Marcin Wieśniak

submission deadline 24 Feb 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2625 | 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)

Higher-Order Interactions in Physiological Networks

edited by

Yuri Antonacci

submission deadline 25 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 110 | Submission Open

Keywords: higher-order interactions; information theory; network science; redundancy and synergy; multivariate time series analysis

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

Time in Quantum Mechanics

edited by Michael Ridley

submission deadline 27 Feb 2026 | Viewed by 175 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum time; quantum gravity; time operator; retrocausality; quantum clocks

(This special issue belongs to the Section Time)

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