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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,963 Views
18 Pages

23 January 2014

A numerical algorithm to compute the topological entropy of multimodal maps is proposed. This algorithm results from a closed formula containing the so-called min-max symbols, which are closely related to the kneading symbols. Furthermore, it simplif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,583 Views
22 Pages

Exploring the Entropy-Based Classification of Time Series Using Visibility Graphs from Chaotic Maps

  • J. Alberto Conejero,
  • Andrei Velichko,
  • Òscar Garibo-i-Orts,
  • Yuriy Izotov and
  • Viet-Thanh Pham

22 March 2024

The classification of time series using machine learning (ML) analysis and entropy-based features is an urgent task for the study of nonlinear signals in the fields of finance, biology and medicine, including EEG analysis and Brain–Computer Int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,022 Views
23 Pages

Application of a Maximum Entropy Model for Mineral Prospectivity Maps

  • Binbin Li,
  • Bingli Liu,
  • Ke Guo,
  • Cheng Li and
  • Bin Wang

15 September 2019

The effective integration of geochemical data with multisource geoscience data is a necessary condition for mapping mineral prospects. In the present study, based on the maximum entropy principle, a maximum entropy model (MaxEnt model) was establishe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,405 Views
27 Pages

Computing the Topological Entropy of Multimodal Maps via Min-Max Sequences

  • José María Amigó,
  • Rui Dilão and
  • Ángel Giménez

18 April 2012

We derive an algorithm to recursively determine the lap number (minimal number of monotonicity segments) of the iterates of twice differentiable l-modal map, enabling to numerically calculate the topological entropy of these maps. The algorithm is ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,153 Views
13 Pages

Objective 3D Printed Surface Quality Assessment Based on Entropy of Depth Maps

  • Jarosław Fastowicz,
  • Marek Grudziński,
  • Mateusz Tecław and
  • Krzysztof Okarma

21 January 2019

A rapid development and growing popularity of additive manufacturing technology leads to new challenging tasks allowing not only a reliable monitoring of the progress of the 3D printing process but also the quality of the printed objects. The automat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,994 Views
19 Pages

28 October 2022

Thematic maps of spatial data are constructed by using standard thematic classification methods that do not allow management of the uncertainty of classification and, consequently, evaluation of the reliability of the resulting thematic map. We propo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,498 Views
20 Pages

18 January 2023

In this review paper, the hot compressive deformation mechanisms and processing maps of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with different chemical compositions and crystal structures are analyzed. The stress exponent (n1) values measured from the series of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,452 Views
33 Pages

Supporting Clinical COVID-19 Diagnosis with Routine Blood Tests Using Tree-Based Entropy Structured Self-Organizing Maps

  • Vagner Sargiani,
  • Alexandra A. De Souza,
  • Danilo Candido De Almeida,
  • Thiago S. Barcelos,
  • Roberto Munoz and
  • Leandro Augusto Da Silva

19 May 2022

Data classification is an automatic or semi-automatic process that, utilizing artificial intelligence algorithms, learns the variable and class relationships of a dataset for use a posteriori in situations where the class result is unknown. For many...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,068 Views
26 Pages

7 December 2023

The effectiveness of feature extraction is a critical aspect of fault diagnosis for petrochemical machinery and equipment. Traditional entropy analysis methods are prone to disruption by noise, parameter sensitivity, and sudden entropy variations. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,964 Views
17 Pages

18 February 2019

Catheter ablation of critical electrical propagation sites is a promising tool for reducing the recurrence of atrial fibrillation (AF). The spatial identification of the arrhythmogenic mechanisms sustaining AF requires the evaluation of electrograms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,551 Views
10 Pages

Chaotic Map with No Fixed Points: Entropy, Implementation and Control

  • Van Van Huynh,
  • Adel Ouannas,
  • Xiong Wang,
  • Viet-Thanh Pham,
  • Xuan Quynh Nguyen and
  • Fawaz E. Alsaadi

14 March 2019

A map without equilibrium has been proposed and studied in this paper. The proposed map has no fixed point and exhibits chaos. We have investigated its dynamics and shown its chaotic behavior using tools such as return map, bifurcation diagram and Ly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,548 Views
1 Page

19 March 2004

A continuous map f of the interval is chaotic iff there is an increasing of nonnegative integers T such that the topological sequence entropy of f relative to T, hT(f), is positive [4]. On the other hand, for any increasing sequence of nonnegative in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,853 Views
20 Pages

24 June 2010

Knowledge structures are often represented in the form of networks or maps of concepts. The coherence and connectivity of such knowledge representations is known to be closely related to knowledge production, acquisition and processing. In this study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,171 Views
12 Pages

22 July 2015

A hypsometric map is a type of map used to represent topographic characteristics by filling different map areas with diverging colors. The setting of appropriate diverging colors is essential for the map to reveal topographic details. When lunar real...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,703 Views
17 Pages

1 January 2023

A novel fault diagnosis scheme was developed to address the difficulty of feature extraction for planetary gearboxes using refined composite multiscale fluctuation dispersion entropy (RCMFDE) and supervised manifold mapping. The RCMFDE was first util...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,463 Views
22 Pages

13 December 2023

The transition from a chaotic to a periodic state in the Duffing chaotic oscillator detection system is crucial in detecting weak signals. However, accurately determining the critical threshold for this transition remains a challenging problem. Tradi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,486 Views
18 Pages

Entropy Rate Maps of Complex Excitable Dynamics in Cardiac Monolayers

  • Alexander Schlemmer,
  • Sebastian Berg,
  • T. K. Shajahan,
  • Stefan Luther and
  • Ulrich Parlitz

26 February 2015

The characterization of spatiotemporal complexity remains a challenging task. This holds in particular for the analysis of data from fluorescence imaging (optical mapping), which allows for the measurement of membrane potential and intracellular calc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,602 Views
13 Pages

The Discrete Fractional Variable-Order Tinkerbell Map: Chaos, 0–1 Test, and Entropy

  • Souad Bensid Ahmed,
  • Adel Ouannas,
  • Mohammed Al Horani and
  • Giuseppe Grassi

3 September 2022

The dynamics of the Caputo-fractional variable-order difference form of the Tinkerbell map are studied. The phase portraits, bifurcation, and largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE) were employed to demonstrate the presence of chaos over a different fraction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,205 Views
21 Pages

On Ikeda-Based Memristor Map with Commensurate and Incommensurate Fractional Orders: Bifurcation, Chaos, and Entropy

  • Omar Alsayyed,
  • Abderrahmane Abbes,
  • Gharib Mousa Gharib,
  • Mayada Abualhomos,
  • Hassan Al-Tarawneh,
  • Maha S. Al Soudi,
  • Nabeela Abu-Alkishik,
  • Abdallah Al-Husban and
  • Adel Ouannas

This paper introduces a novel fractional Ikeda-based memristor map and investigates its non-linear dynamics under commensurate and incommensurate orders using various numerical techniques, including Lyapunov exponent analysis, phase portraits, and bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,311 Views
19 Pages

Bifurcation, Hidden Chaos, Entropy and Control in Hénon-Based Fractional Memristor Map with Commensurate and Incommensurate Orders

  • Mayada Abualhomos,
  • Abderrahmane Abbes,
  • Gharib Mousa Gharib,
  • Abdallah Shihadeh,
  • Maha S. Al Soudi,
  • Ahmed Atallah Alsaraireh and
  • Adel Ouannas

5 October 2023

In this paper, we present an innovative 3D fractional Hénon-based memristor map and conduct an extensive exploration and analysis of its dynamic behaviors under commensurate and incommensurate orders. The study employs diverse numerical techni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,792 Views
23 Pages

11 June 2024

Vibration monitoring and analysis are important methods in wind turbine gearbox fault diagnosis, and determining how to extract fault characteristics from the vibration signal is of primary importance. This paper presents a fault diagnosis approach b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
86 Citations
11,822 Views
20 Pages

Fuzzy Shannon Entropy: A Hybrid GIS-Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Method

  • Majid Shadman Roodposhti,
  • Jagannath Aryal,
  • Himan Shahabi and
  • Taher Safarrad

27 September 2016

Assessing Landslide Susceptibility Mapping (LSM) contributes to reducing the risk of living with landslides. Handling the vagueness associated with LSM is a challenging task. Here we show the application of hybrid GIS-based LSM. The hybrid approach e...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,251 Views
6 Pages

26 November 2024

With the emergence of visual sensors and their widespread application in intelligent systems, precise and interpretable visual explanations have become essential for ensuring the reliability and effectiveness of these systems. Sensor data, such as th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,002 Views
19 Pages

27 April 2020

Rainfall-induced floods often cause significant loss of life as well as damage to infrastructure and crops. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth Observation Satellites (EOS) can be used to determine the extent of flooding over large geographical area...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,047 Views
22 Pages

26 September 2023

High-resolution permafrost mapping is an important direction in permafrost research. Arxan is a typical area with permafrost degradation and is situated on the southern boundary of the permafrost region in Northeast China. With the help of Google Ear...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,881 Views
24 Pages

24 February 2022

High-entropy/multicomponent alloy (HEA/MCA) has received significant research attention in the last decade. There is a dearth of data-driven works dedicated to assessing and visualizing the HEA/MCA literature from a global perspective. To this end, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,009 Views
14 Pages

Deformation Behavior and Processing Map of AlCoCrFeNiTi0.5 High-Entropy Alloy at High Temperature

  • Xinbin Liu,
  • Tiansheng Li,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Xianghua Kong and
  • Chenyang Zhao

22 October 2023

AlCoCrFeNiTi0.5 high-entropy alloy (HEA) shows excellent properties in hardness and corrosion resistance. AlCoCrFeNiTi0.5 HEA was prepared using a non-consumable vacuum arc furnace. Hot-deformation behavior of AlCoCrFeNiTi0.5 HEA was explored under 1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,888 Views
14 Pages

9 August 2023

Remote sensing images are important data sources for land cover mapping. As one of the most important artificial features in remote sensing images, buildings play a critical role in many applications, such as population estimation and urban planning....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,781 Views
12 Pages

24 May 2019

Complex networks of coupled maps of matrices (NCMM) are investigated in this paper. It is shown that a NCMM can evolve into two different steady states—the quiet state or the state of divergence. It appears that chimera states of spatiotemporal diver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,263 Views
19 Pages

Flood Susceptibility Mapping Using GIS-Based Frequency Ratio and Shannon’s Entropy Index Bivariate Statistical Models: A Case Study of Chandrapur District, India

  • Asheesh Sharma,
  • Mandeep Poonia,
  • Ankush Rai,
  • Rajesh B. Biniwale,
  • Franziska Tügel,
  • Ekkehard Holzbecher and
  • Reinhard Hinkelmann

Flooding poses a significant threat as a prevalent natural disaster. To mitigate its impact, identifying flood-prone areas through susceptibility mapping is essential for effective flood risk management. This study conducted flood susceptibility mapp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,894 Views
13 Pages

13 October 2017

In the clinical electrophysiological practice, reading and comparing electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings are sometimes insufficient and take too much time. Tools coming from the information theory or nonlinear systems theory such as entropy and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
23,426 Views
23 Pages

Mapping Fishing Activities and Suitable Fishing Grounds Using Nighttime Satellite Images and Maximum Entropy Modelling

  • Rollan C. Geronimo,
  • Erik C. Franklin,
  • Russell E. Brainard,
  • Christopher D. Elvidge,
  • Mudjekeewis D. Santos,
  • Roberto Venegas and
  • Camilo Mora

9 October 2018

Fisheries surveys over broad spatial areas are crucial in defining and delineating appropriate fisheries management areas. Yet accurate mapping and tracking of fishing activities remain largely restricted to developed countries with sufficient resour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,556 Views
22 Pages

20 March 2025

The increasingly serious imbalance between the supply and demand of water resources necessitates the establishment of a scientific and reasonable comprehensive evaluation method for industrial water use efficiency (WUE). In this study, a general meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,950 Views
25 Pages

25 November 2022

Approximation of entropies of various types using machine learning (ML) regression methods are shown for the first time. The ML models presented in this study define the complexity of the short time series by approximating dissimilar entropy techniqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,908 Views
17 Pages

27 June 2011

In this paper, the entropy generation minimization (EGM) method is applied to an industrial heat transfer problem: the forced convective cooling of a LED-based spotlight. The design specification calls for eighteen diodes arranged on a circular coppe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,148 Views
16 Pages

The Entropy of Co-Compact Open Covers

  • Zheng Wei,
  • Yangeng Wang,
  • Guo Wei,
  • Tonghui Wang and
  • Steven Bourquin

24 June 2013

Co-compact entropy is introduced as an invariant of topological conjugation for perfect mappings defined on any Hausdorff space (compactness and metrizability are not necessarily required). This is achieved through the consideration of co-compact cov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,315 Views
11 Pages

12 November 2017

The aim of this paper is to show that the Tsallis-type (q-additive) entropic chain rule allows for a wider class of entropic functionals than previously thought. In particular, we point out that the ensuing entropy solutions (e.g., Tsallis entropy) c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,340 Views
9 Pages

26 October 2020

Weak invariants are time-dependent observables with conserved expectation values. Their fluctuations, however, do not remain constant in time. On the assumption that time evolution of the state of an open quantum system is given in terms of a complet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,004 Views
14 Pages

17 March 2023

In this paper, we focus on evolution from an equilibrium state in a power law form by means of q-exponentials to an arbitrary one. Introducing new q-Gibbsian equalities as the necessary condition of self-organization in nonextensive open systems, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,620 Views
23 Pages

7 October 2020

The main result of this paper is a proof using real analysis of the monotonicity of the topological entropy for the family of quadratic maps, sometimes called Milnor’s Monotonicity Conjecture. In contrast, the existing proofs rely in one way or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,329 Views
22 Pages

Entropy and Ergodicity of Boole-Type Transformations

  • Denis Blackmore,
  • Alexander A. Balinsky,
  • Radoslaw Kycia and
  • Anatolij K. Prykarpatski

26 October 2021

We review some analytic, measure-theoretic and topological techniques for studying ergodicity and entropy of discrete dynamical systems, with a focus on Boole-type transformations and their generalizations. In particular, we present a new proof of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,892 Views
64 Pages

9 June 2020

In 1969, Jean-Marie Souriau introduced a “Lie Groups Thermodynamics” in Statistical Mechanics in the framework of Geometric Mechanics. This Souriau’s model considers the statistical mechanics of dynamic systems in their “space...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,387 Views
14 Pages

Basin Entropy and Shearless Barrier Breakup in Open Non-Twist Hamiltonian Systems

  • Leonardo C. Souza,
  • Amanda C. Mathias,
  • Pedro Haerter and
  • Ricardo L. Viana

30 July 2023

We consider open non-twist Hamiltonian systems represented by an area-preserving two-dimensional map describing incompressible planar flows in the reference frame of a propagating wave, and possessing exits through which map orbits can escape. The co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
6,032 Views
20 Pages

Landslide susceptibility maps are very important tools in the planning and management of landslide prone areas. Qualitative and quantitative methods each have their own advantages and dis-advantages in landslide susceptibility mapping. The aim of thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,413 Views
13 Pages

12 January 2025

The twisted reflection operators are defined on the hyperbolic plane. They are then specialized in hyperbolic reflections, according to which the desymmetrized PSL (2,Z) group is rewritten. The Bogomolny–Carioli transfer operators are newl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,958 Views
17 Pages

1 February 2020

The methods for nonlinear time series analysis were used in the presented research to reveal eye movement signal characteristics. Three measures were used: approximate entropy, fuzzy entropy, and the Largest Lyapunov Exponent, for which the multileve...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,915 Views
27 Pages

22 June 2016

We study continuous countably-piecewise monotone interval maps and formulate conditions under which these are conjugate to maps of constant slope, particularly when this slope is given by the topological entropy of the map. We confine our investigati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,240 Views
16 Pages

1 December 2022

The limit of validity of ordinary statistical mechanics and the pertinence of Tsallis statistics beyond it is explained considering the most probable evolution of complex systems processes. To this purpose we employ a dissipative Landau–Ginzbur...

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