Entropy  

Giancarlo Franzese, Ivan Latella and J. Miguel Rubi

Confined systems exhibit a large variety of nonequilibrium phenomena. In this special issue, we have collected a limited number of papers that were presented during the XXV Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics, devoted to “Nonequilibrium phenomena i... see more

Yan Feng, Xue-Qin Jiang, Jia Hou, Hui-Ming Wang and Yi Yang

The classical secret-key agreement (SKA) scheme includes three phases: (a) advantage distillation (AD), (b) reconciliation, and (c) privacy amplification. Define the transmission rate as the ratio between the number of raw key bits obtained by the AD phas... see more

Samuel Olumide Adesanya and Michael Bamidele Fakoya

In the present work, entropy generation in the flow and heat transfer of couple stress fluid through an infinite inclined channel embedded in a saturated porous medium is presented. Due to the channel geometry, the asymmetrical slip conditions are imposed... see more

Shuangshuang Lin, Zhigang Liu and Keting Hu

In this paper, a new approach for fault detection and location of open switch faults in the closed-loop inverter fed vector controlled drives of Electric Multiple Units is proposed. Spectral kurtosis (SK) based on Choi–Williams distribution (CWD) as a sta... see more

Liangjun Yu, Liangxiao Jiang, Dianhong Wang and Lungan Zhang

Of numerous proposals to improve the accuracy of naive Bayes by weakening its attribute independence assumption, semi-naive Bayesian classifiers which utilize one-dependence estimators (ODEs) have been shown to be able to approximate the ground-truth attr... see more

Gengxi Zhang, Xiaoling Su, Vijay P. Singh and Olusola O. Ayantobo

Terrestrial vegetation dynamics are closely influenced by both hydrological process and climate change. This study investigated the relationships between vegetation pattern and hydro-meteorological elements. The joint entropy method was employed to evalua... see more

Jonathan Schrock, Alex J. McCaskey, Kathleen E. Hamilton, Travis S. Humble and Neena Imam

A content-addressable memory (CAM) stores key-value associations such that the key is recalled by providing its associated value. While CAM recall is traditionally performed using recurrent neural network models, we show how to solve this problem using ad... see more

Eugenio E. Vogel, Patricio Vargas, Gonzalo Saravia, Julio Valdes, Antonio Jose Ramirez-Pastor and Paulo M. Centres

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Pei Yang, Yue Wu, Liqiang Jin and Hongwen Yang

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Paulo Rotela Junior, Luiz Célio Souza Rocha, Giancarlo Aquila, Pedro Paulo Balestrassi, Rogério Santana Peruchi and Liviam Soares Lacerda

Recently, different methods have been proposed for portfolio optimization and decision making on investment issues. This article aims to present a new method for portfolio formation based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Entropy function. This new p... see more

Jerry D. Gibson and Preethi Mahadevan

We provide a new derivation of the log likelihood spectral distance measure for signal processing using the logarithm of the ratio of entropy rate powers. Using this interpretation, we show that the log likelihood ratio is equivalent to the difference of ... see more

Subhajit Majhi and Patrick Mitran

We study a class of two-transmitter two-receiver dual-band Gaussian interference channels (GIC) which operates over the conventional microwave and the unconventional millimeter-wave (mm-wave) bands. This study is motivated by future 5G networks where addi... see more

Michael Wibral, Conor Finn, Patricia Wollstadt, Joseph T. Lizier and Viola Priesemann

Information processing performed by any system can be conceptually decomposed into the transfer, storage and modification of information—an idea dating all the way back to the work of Alan Turing. However, formal information theoretic definitions until ve... see more

Steeve Zozor, David Puertas-Centeno and Jesús S. Dehesa

Information-theoretic inequalities play a fundamental role in numerous scientific and technological areas (e.g., estimation and communication theories, signal and information processing, quantum physics, …) as they generally express the impossibility to h... see more

Bjarne Andresen and Christopher Essex

We investigate the importance of the time and length scales at play in our descriptions of Nature. What can we observe at the atomic scale, at the laboratory (human) scale, and at the galactic scale? Which variables make sense? For every scale we wish to ... see more

Linda Senigagliesi, Marco Baldi and Franco Chiaraluce

We propose and assess an on–off protocol for communication over wireless wiretap channels with security at the physical layer. By taking advantage of suitable cryptographic primitives, the protocol we propose allows two legitimate parties to exchange conf... see more

Lianrong Zheng, Weifeng Pan, Yifan Li, Daiyi Luo, Qian Wang and Guanzheng Liu

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Mohit Kumar, Ram Bilas Pachori and U. Rajendra Acharya

Myocardial infarction (MI) is a silent condition that irreversibly damages the heart muscles. It expands rapidly and, if not treated timely, continues to damage the heart muscles. An electrocardiogram (ECG) is generally used by the clinicians to diagnose ... see more

Anming Dong, Haixia Zhang, Minglei Shu and Dongfeng Yuan

This paper considers power splitting (PS)-based simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interference channel networks where multiple transceiver pairs share the same frequency spectrum. As the... see more

Arnab Ghosh

In the spirit of Bose–Einstein condensation, we present a detailed account of the statistical description of the condensation phenomena for a Fermi–Dirac gas following the works of Born and Kothari. For bosons, while the condensed phase below a certain cr... see more

José-Luis Muñoz-Cobo, Rafael Mendizábal, Arturo Miquel, Cesar Berna and Alberto Escrivá

The determination of the probability distribution function (PDF) of uncertain input and model parameters in engineering application codes is an issue of importance for uncertainty quantification methods. One of the approaches that can be used for the PDF ... see more

Joseph A. Smiga and Jacob M. Taylor

The simplest cosmology—the Friedmann–Robertson–Walker–Lemaître (FRW) model— describes a spatially homogeneous and isotropic universe where the scale factor is the only dynamical parameter. Here we consider how quantized electromagnetic fields become entan... see more

Isabella Gallino

In contrast to pure metals and most non-glass forming alloys, metallic glass-formers are moderately strong liquids in terms of fragility. The notion of fragility of an undercooling liquid reflects the sensitivity of the viscosity of the liquid to temperat... see more

Hyenkyun Woo

In image and signal processing, the beta-divergence is well known as a similarity measure between two positive objects. However, it is unclear whether or not the distance-like structure of beta-divergence is preserved, if we extend the domain of the beta-... see more

Muhammad Mubashir Bhatti, Mohsen Sheikholeslami and Ahmed Zeeshan

A theoretical and a mathematical model is presented to determine the entropy generation on electro-kinetically modulated peristaltic propulsion on the magnetized nanofluid flow through a microchannel with joule heating. The mathematical modeling is based ... see more

Andrea Grigorescu, Holger Boche and Rafael F. Schaefer

Robust biometric authentication is studied from an information theoretic perspective. Compound sources are used to account for uncertainty in the knowledge of the source statistics and are further used to model certain attack classes. It is shown that aut... see more

Feifan Zhang, Huayong Zhang, Tousheng Huang, Tianxiang Meng and Shengnan Ma

Wind-induced vegetation patterns were proposed a long time ago but only recently a dynamic vegetation-sand relationship has been established. In this research, we transformed the continuous vegetation-sand model into a discrete model. Fixed points and sta... see more

George Thomas, Manik Banik and Sibasish Ghosh

We study coupled quantum systems as the working media of thermodynamic machines. Under a suitable phase-space transformation, the coupled systems can be expressed as a composition of independent subsystems. We find that for the coupled systems, the figure... see more

Linh Van Ma, Jaehyung Park, Jiseung Nam, HoYong Ryu and Jinsul Kim

Dynamic adaptive streaming over Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an advanced technology in video streaming to deal with the uncertainty of network states. However, this technology has one drawback as the network states frequently and continuously cha... see more

Emmanuel Abbe, Jiange Li and Mokshay Madiman

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