30 articles in this issue
Elisa Guelpa and Vittorio Verda
Entropy generation is commonly applied to describe the evolution of irreversible processes, such as heat transfer and turbulence. These are both dominating phenomena in fire propagation. In this paper, entropy generation analysis is applied to a grassland... see more
Yanyan Wang, Yingsong Li, Felix Albu and Rui Yang
A group-constrained maximum correntropy criterion (GC-MCC) algorithm is proposed on the basis of the compressive sensing (CS) concept and zero attracting (ZA) techniques and its estimating behavior is verified over sparse multi-path channels. The proposed... see more
Shong-Loong Chen and Chia-Pang Cheng
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Dagmar Markechová and Beloslav Riecan
In this contribution, we introduce the concepts of logical entropy and logical mutual information of experiments in the intuitionistic fuzzy case, and study the basic properties of the suggested measures. Subsequently, by means of the suggested notion of ... see more
Yen-Ju Chu, Chi-Feng Chang, Jiann-Shing Shieh and Wang-Tso Lee
Electroencephalography (EEG) is frequently used in functional neurological assessment of children with neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. Multiscale entropy (MSE) can reveal complexity in both short and long time scales and is more feasible in t... see more
Badr F. Albanna, Christopher Hillar, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein and Michael R. DeWeese
Liang-Fang Ni, Yi Wang, Wei-Xia Li, Pei-Zhen Wang and Jia-Yan Zhang
An iterative QR-based soft feedback segment interference cancellation (QRSFSIC) detection and decoder algorithm for a Reed–Muller (RM) space-time turbo system is proposed in this paper. It forms the sufficient statistic for the minimum-mean-square error (... see more
Song Xu, Yang Li, Tingwen Huang and Rosa H. M. Chan
Modeling of a time-varying dynamical system provides insights into the functions of biological neural networks and contributes to the development of next-generation neural prostheses. In this paper, we have formulated a novel sparse multiwavelet-based gen... see more
Jiarong Shi, Xiuyun Zheng and Wei Yang
Low-rank matrix factorizations such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) are a large class of methods for pursuing the low-rank approximation of a given data matrix. The conv... see more
Shengwei Huang, Chengzhou Li, Tianyu Tan, Peng Fu, Gang Xu and Yongping Yang
In this paper, an improved system to efficiently utilize the low-temperature waste heat from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants is proposed based on heat cascade theory. The essence of the proposed system is that the waste heat of exhausted flue gas ... see more
Brendon J. Brewer
The Shannon entropy, and related quantities such as mutual information, can be used to quantify uncertainty and relevance. However, in practice, it can be difficult to compute these quantities for arbitrary probability distributions, particularly if the p... see more
Qing Li and Steven Y. Liang
Junqing Zhang, Trung Q. Duong, Roger Woods and Alan Marshall
The security of the Internet of Things (IoT) is receiving considerable interest as the low power constraints and complexity features of many IoT devices are limiting the use of conventional cryptographic techniques. This article provides an overview of re... see more
Jiawen Deng, Juan D. Jaramillo, Peter Hänggi and Jiangbin Gong
Sufen Wang and Vijay P. Singh
The relationship between soil water content (SWC) and vegetation, topography, and climatic conditions is critical for developing effective agricultural water management practices and improving agricultural water use efficiency in arid areas. The purpose o... see more
Arshad Khan, Kashif Ali Abro, Asifa Tassaddiq and Ilyas Khan
This communication addresses a comparison of newly presented non-integer order derivatives with and without singular kernel, namely Michele Caputo–Mauro Fabrizio (CF) C F ( ? ß / ? t ß ) and Atangana–Baleanu (AB) A B ... see more
Stefano A. Lollai
In the present paper, a Quality Systems Theory is presented. Certifiable Quality Systems are treated and interpreted in accordance with a Thermodynamics-based approach. Analysis is also conducted on the relationship between Quality Management Systems (QMS... see more
Arthur Matsuo Yamashita Rios de Sousa, Hideki Takayasu, Didier Sornette and Misako Takayasu
Gokmen Demirkaya, Ricardo Vasquez Padilla, Armando Fontalvo, Maree Lake and Yee Yan Lim
This paper presents a theoretical investigation of a combined Power and Cooling Cycle that employs an Ammonia-Water mixture. The cycle combines a Rankine and an absorption refrigeration cycle. The Goswami cycle can be used in a wide range of applications ... see more
Adrian Arellano-Delgado, Rosa Martha López-Gutiérrez, Miguel Angel Murillo-Escobar, Liliana Cardoza-Avendaño and César Cruz-Hernández
In this paper, the emergence of hyperchaos in a network with two very simple discrete periodic oscillators is presented. Uncoupled periodic oscillators may represent, in the crudest and simplest form, periodic oscillators in nature, for example fireflies,... see more
Arkadiusz Jedrzejewski and Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron
Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi and Munawwar Ali Abbas
Eduard Gabriel Ceptureanu, Sebastian Ion Ceptureanu and Doina I. Popescu
This paper analyses the relations between entropy, organizational capabilities and corporate entrepreneurship. The results indicate strong links between strategy and corporate entrepreneurship, moderated by the organizational capabilities. We find that co... see more
Vihan M. Patel and Charles H. Lineweaver
The entropy of the observable universe is increasing. Thus, at earlier times the entropy was lower. However, the cosmic microwave background radiation reveals an apparently high entropy universe close to thermal and chemical equilibrium. A two-part soluti... see more
Alex Dytso, Ronit Bustin, H. Vincent Poor and Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
Relations between estimation and information measures have received considerable attention from the information theory community. One of the most notable such relationships is the I-MMSE identity of Guo, Shamai and Verdú that connects the mutual informati... see more
Luca Faes, Daniele Marinazzo and Sebastiano Stramaglia
Exploiting the theory of state space models, we derive the exact expressions of the information transfer, as well as redundant and synergistic transfer, for coupled Gaussian processes observed at multiple temporal scales. All of the terms, constituting th... see more
José Weberszpil and Wen Chen
Xinghua Fang, Mingshun Song and Yizeng Chen
In statistical process control, the control chart utilizing the idea of maximum entropy distribution density level sets has been proven to perform well for monitoring the quantity with multimodal distribution. However, it is too complicated to implement f... see more
Yao Rong, Mengjiao Tang and Jie Zhou
One main interest of information geometry is to study the properties of statistical models that do not depend on the coordinate systems or model parametrization; thus, it may serve as an analytic tool for intrinsic inference in statistics. In this paper, ... see more
Florian Ries, Johannes Janicka and Amsini Sadiki
In the present paper, thermal transport and entropy production mechanisms in a turbulent round jet of compressed nitrogen at supercritical thermodynamic conditions are investigated using a direct numerical simulation. First, thermal transport and its cont... see more