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Ising Model—100 Years Old and Still Attractive

edited by

Adam Lipowski

submission deadline 10 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 808 | Submission Open

Keywords: spin models; statistical mechanics; Monte Carlo simulations; phase transitions; sociophysics; econophysics; artificial intelligence; machine learning; inference; computational biology; neuroscience; optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Complexity Characteristics of Natural Language

edited by

Stanisław Drożdż

Jarosław Kwapień

and Tomasz Stanisz

submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6608 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural language; complexity; hierarchical organization; long-range correlations; time series analysis; scaling laws; multifractals; complex networks; large language models; natural language generation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Entropy-Based Fault Diagnosis: From Theory to Applications

edited by

Xiaoan Yan

, Ling Xiang,

Jinde Zheng

and

Zhi-Xin Yang

submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1923 | 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)

Universality Classes of Synchronization Phase Transitions

edited by

Géza Ódor

and Shengfeng Deng

submission deadline 19 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2011 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Time Series Analysis in Earthquake Complex Networks

edited by

Tamaz Chelidze

Luciano Telesca

and

Filippos Vallianatos

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 11681 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex systems; laboratory fracture and earthquake process models; nonlinear dynamics and machine learning; non-extensive statistical analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Transport in Complex Environments

edited by

Nikolaos Voulgarakis

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1430 | Submission Open

Keywords: anomalous diffusion; active Brownian motion; Fickian yet non-Gaussian diffusion; aging phenomena; ergodicity breaking; complex fluids; cell migration; animals foraging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Continuous Variables for Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Random Number Generators

edited by

Matteo Schiavon

Marco Avesani

and

Cosmo Lupo

submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1216 | Submission Open

Keywords: continuous variables (CVs); quantum key distribution (QKD); quantum random number generator (QRNG); measurement-device-independent QKD (MDI-QKD); quantum cryptography; coherent detection; free-space and satellite CV-QKD; integrated photonics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Information Security and Data Privacy

edited by Mina Sheikhalishahi

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 21467 | Submission Open

Keywords: data privacy; data security; information theory; security and privacy metrics; theoretical analysis of data security and privacy

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

Entanglement in Quantum Spin Systems

edited by

Leonardo dos Santos Lima

submission deadline 25 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3250 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal and spin Hall transport; spin Hall effect; spintronics; longitudinal spin transport; quantum spin one-half and integer spin Heisenberg model; topological phase transition; quantum entanglement; magnon bands; stochastic differential equations and Fokker– Planck equations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Advances in Bayesian Optimization and Deep Reinforcement Learning

edited by Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán

submission deadline 29 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1708 | Submission Open

Keywords: Bayesian optimization; deep reinforcement learning; hyperparameter tuning; AutoRL; information

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

Quantum Probability and Randomness V

edited by

Andrei Khrennikov

and

Karl Svozil

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 11109 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum foundation; quantum vs. classical probability and randomness; quantum information; Bell inequality; entanglement; contextuality; random generators; generalized probabilistic models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Applications of Information Theory to Machine Learning

edited by

Bin Chen

Shu-Tao Xia

and

Mehul Motani

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7724 | Submission Open

Keywords: adversarial machine learning; self-supervised learning; sequential decision-making (bandit/reinforcement learning); deep learning theory; clustering/community detection; security and privacy in machine learning; generative models; decision theory; federated learning

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

Entropy, Econophysics, and Complexity

edited by Alejandro Raúl Hernández-Montoya, Thomas Seligman,

J.E. Trinidad-Segovia

and Manan Vyas

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4674 | Submission Open

Keywords: stylized facts; econophysics; sociophysics; entropy; financial markets; wealth distribution; inequality; financial crisis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Mesoscopic Fluid Mechanics

edited by Tianbai Xiao, Yuan Hu, Xing Ji and

Mikhail Sheremet

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3824 | Submission Open

Keywords: kinetic theory of gases; rarefied gas dynamics; discrete velocity methods; lattice Boltzmann methods; high-order methods; direct simulation Monte Carlo; particle-in-cell methods; computational fluid dynamics; plasma physics; statistical fluid dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Time, Change, Observables, and Quantum Gravity

edited by

J. Brian Pitts

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 524 | Submission Open

Keywords: change; observables; constrained Hamiltonian dynamics; gauge freedom; quantum gravity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Time)

The Entropy Production—as Cornerstone in Applied Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics—Dedicated to Professor Signe Kjelstrup on the Occasion of Her 75th Birthday

edited by

Dick Bedeaux

, Fernando Bresme and

Alex Hansen

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 20 articles | Viewed by 15414 | Submission Open

Keywords: entropy production as the proper basis for transport modelling; entropy production and exergy analysis; entropy production for surfaces; entropy production and entropy balance in thermodynamic modelling of industrial processes; entropy production minimization in nature and industry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Community Detection and Clustering Complex Networks and Their Applications

edited by

Boleslaw K. Szymanski

, Kevin E. Bassler and

Tao Jia

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7465 | Submission Open

Keywords: dynamics of complex networks; information spreading; heterogeneous information networks; adaptive networks; co-evolving networks; bionetworks; political networks; networks with ambiguous structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Entropy-Based Applications in Economics, Finance and Management, 3rd Edition

edited by

Joanna Olbryś

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6450 | 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)

Dynamics in Biological and Social Networks

edited by Luiz Henrique Alves Monteiro

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6229 | 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)

Exploring Complexity: Short-Range Order in Medium and High-Entropy Materials

edited by Shunda Chen

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2496 | Submission Open

Keywords: short-range order; complexity; entropy; thermodynamics; statistical mechanics; medium-entropy alloys; high-entropy materials; material properties; structural properties

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Non-Equilibrium Quantum Many-Body Dynamics

edited by Ricardo Puebla and Fernando Gómez-Ruiz

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2371 | 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)

Complex Dynamic System Modelling, Identification and Control, 2nd Edition

edited by

and

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2005 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex human-made and natural systems; system identification; nonlinear adaptive control; robotic systems; artificial intelligence for MIC; immerging methodologies and algorithms for MIC; entropy-oriented MIC; case studies; applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Insight into Entropy

edited by

Philip Broadbridge

and

Tony C. Scott

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1369 | 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)

Lie Group Machine Learning

edited by

Fanzhang Li

and Li Liu

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 476 | Submission Open

Keywords: Lie group algebraic learning; Lie group geometric learning; Lie group cover learning; Lie group meta learning; Lie group continual learning; Lie group reinforcement learning; Lie group neural network learning; Lie group Bayesian learning; symplectic group learning; quantum group learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

LDPC Codes for Communication Systems

edited by Zhiping Shi and

Guojun Han

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 430 | Submission Open

Keywords: LDPC codes; channel coding; information theory; coding theory; coding and modulations; 5G/6G communications; deep learning; integrated sensing and communications

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

Applications of Information Theory in Chemistry: Quantifying Molecular Structure, Dynamics, and Reactivity

edited by

Rodolfo O. Esquivel

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 226 | Submission Open

Keywords: information theory; quantum information science (QIS); molecular QIS applications; molecular qubits; Shannon entropy; statistical complexity; quantum entanglement; computational chemistry; machine learning; graph theory; atoms and molecules

(This special issue belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)

Information Theory of Cognitive Radio Systems

edited by

Diluka Galappaththige

Chintha Tellambura

and MohammadAli Mohammadi

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 184 | 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)

Complexity and Synchronization in Time Series

edited by

Lev Guzmán-Vargas

and

Daniel Aguilar-Velázquez

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

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

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

edited by

Giampiero Bardella

, Liming Pan and Gianni Valerio Vinci

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 157 | 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)

Recent Advances in Molecular Thermodynamics of Ionic Liquids and Concentrated Electrolyte Solutions

edited by

Jianzhong Wu

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open

Keywords: ionic liquids; electrolyte solutions; molecular modeling; molecular simulations; structure and dynamics; concentrated solutions; interfacial phenomena; energy storage; catalysis; materials processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Goal-Oriented Communication: Freshness, Semantics, and Beyond

edited by Xingran Chen and Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

submission deadline 4 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1110 | 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)

Complexity and Evolution, 2nd Edition

edited by Francis Heylighen and

Tomas Veloz

submission deadline 13 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6509 | Submission Open

Keywords: biological evolution; cognitive evolution; social evolution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Complexity)

Trends in the Second Law of Thermodynamics

edited by

Roberto Zivieri

and

Israa Medlej

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 16992 | Submission Open

Keywords: Second Law of Thermodynamics in physics; chemistry; biology; engineering and natural science; entropy; Clausius equality; Clausius inequality; reversibility; irreversibility; non-equilibrium; Second Law in quantum theory; statistical thermodynamics; Maxwell’ s demon

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Natural Language Processing and Data Mining

edited by Manling Li

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7666 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural language processing; data mining; information theory

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

Information-Theoretic Criteria for Statistical Model Selection

edited by

Abhijit Mandal

and

Suneel Babu Chatla

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7080 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-dimensional data; model selection; goodness-of-fit; data science; machine learning; big data

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

Bayesian Inference and Mathematical Modeling in Complex Biological Systems

edited by Morten Mørup

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4451 | Submission Open

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

Percolation in the 21st Century

edited by Robert M. Ziff

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3170 | Submission Open

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

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Computational and Statistical Physics Approaches for Complex Systems and Social Phenomena, 3rd Edition

edited by

Hung T. Diep

Miron Kaufman

and

Sanda Kaufman

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2489 | Submission Open

Keywords: social phenomena; complex systems; Monte Carlo simulations; statistical physics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)

Entropy Methods for Cardiorespiratory Coupling Analysis

edited by

Mirjana M. Platiša

Beatrice Cairo

and

Riccardo Pernice

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1876 | Submission Open

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

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

Quantum Thermal Machines

edited by

Nathan M. Myers

Francisco Peña

and

Sebastian Deffner

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 457 | 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)

Thermodynamic Modelling in Membrane, 2nd Edition

edited by

Andrzej Ślęzak

and Slawomir Grzegorczyn

submission deadline 17 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 655 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonequilibrium thermodynamics; network thermodynamics; membrane formation; thermodynamic properties of membrane; passive and active membrane transport processes; concentration polarization conditions; membrane dressing; controlled release of substances; membrane potentials; energy; exergy; and entropy generation; composite membranes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)

Quantum Correlations in Many-Body Systems

edited by Matteo Fadel

submission deadline 20 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2237 | Submission Open

Keywords: many-body systems; multipartite quantum correlations; entanglement; Einstein– Podolsky– Rosen steering; Bell nonlocality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Foundational Aspects of Gauge Field Theory

edited by

Lucrezia Ravera

submission deadline 20 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1780 | Submission Open

Keywords: gauge field theory; gauge symmetries; spacetime symmetries; gravity theories; gauge-invariant approaches; fundamental symmetries; cosmology; quantum gravity; black holes; entanglement entropy

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

Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing, Third Edition

edited by

and Marko S. Andjelković

submission deadline 25 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2242 | 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)

Active Inference in Cognitive Neuroscience

edited by

Ivilin Stoianov

submission deadline 27 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 192 | 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)

Quantum Computing in the NISQ Era

edited by Xiao Yuan, Xiaoming Zhang and Bálint Koczor

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 15834 | 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)

Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Processes and Phenomena

edited by

Esteban Calzetta

and

Bei Lok Hu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9651 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonequilibrium quantum field theory; open quantum systems; quantum thermodynamics; quantum information; atom/nuclear/particle many-body dynamics; cosmology; nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems; fluctuation-induced phenomena; dynamical Casimir effect; quantum friction

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

Big Data Analytics and Information Science for Business and Biomedical Applications: Third Edition

edited by

S. Ejaz Ahmed

and

Farouk Nathoo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5476 | Submission Open

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

Quantum Entanglement—Second Edition

edited by

Leong Chuan Kwek

and

Marco Genovese

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3778 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum entanglement; quantum correlations; quantum information; foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum communication; quantum metrology and sensing; quantum imaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Information)

Semantic Information Theory

edited by Meixia Tao,

Kai Niu

and Youlong Wu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3568 | Submission Open

Keywords: semantic metric; information bottleneck; rate-distortion-perception trade-off; remote source coding; joint source– channel coding; task-oriented communications; AI-based communications; end-to-end communications; multi-modality communications

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

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