期刊名称：ENTROPY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Entropy, an international and interdisciplinary journal of entropy and information studies, publishes reviews, regular research papers and short notes. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish as much as possible their theoretical and experimental details. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. If there are computation and the experiment, the details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. There are in addition three unique features:
- Manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas will be particularly welcome.
- Comments on any related papers published in this journal and other journals can be made public immediately in the mailing list and published as short letters in this journal.
- Electronic files regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, will be deposited as supplementary material.
Subject Areas
- general aspects of entropy and information concepts as used in statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, etc.
- the second law of thermodynamics
- information theory
- system theory and cybernetics
- artificial intelligence, neural networks, complex systems, man-machine interfaces, self-organization theories, systems therapy
- pattern recognition
- chaos, complexity, self-organization, symmetry breaking, stability, reversibility and spontaneity
- quantitative relations of entropy (information loss) and other concepts (e.g., symmetry, similarity, orderliness, simplicity and complexity)
- molecular evolution, biological evolution and the evolution of the universe
- application of entropy and information studies in any natural and social sciences
Book Reviews
Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, MDPI Center, Kandererstrasse 25, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland. Received books will be listed first as "Books Received", then offered to the scholarly community for preparing reviews.
Announcement and Advertisement
Announcements regarding academic activities such as conferences are published for free. Advertisement can be either published or placed on the pertinent website. Contact e-mail address is entropy@mdpi.org.
Instructions to Authors
Submission of Manuscripts
- Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail to entropy@mdpi.org (add "Manuscript Submission for Entropy" as the subject).
- Accepted File Format
- LaTeX: ensure to send a copy of your manuscript as a PDF file also, if you decided to use LaTeX. When preparing manuscripts in LaTeX, please use the Entropy LaTeX template files.
- MS Word: Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Entropy MS Word template files must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
- Coverletter: Check in your cover letter whether you supplied at least 5 referees. Check if the English corrections are done before submission.
Manuscript Preparation
- Technical Requirement: Please formulate your arguments in clear language and standard mathematics. Review published articles as examples.
- Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm x 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
- Formatting / Style: The paper style of Entropy should be followed. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [4] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
- Reference Formatting: See the Reference Preparation Guide.
- Reference Preparation: References should preferably be prepared with BibTeX (if manuscript is prepared in LaTeX) or EndNote®, ReferenceManager�or a similar bibliography software package. If references are prepared manually they must be checked for integrity and correctness (you may use ISI Web of Knowledge, PubMed/MEDLINE or Google Scholar). The Editorial Office will charge additional CHF 10 per citation for which extensive corrections must be made.
- Authors List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
- Abstract and Keywords: The abstract should be one paragraph and count less than 100 words. A list of three to ten keywords must be given, and placed after the Abstract.
- Classification: Authors are encouraged to provide primary and secondary MSC 2000 codes from the AMS Mathematics Subject Classification and/or primary and secondary PACS codes from the AIP Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme. The codes can be added after the abstract and kewords. Use the label "Classification: MSC... / PACS...".
- Figures, Schemes and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figure and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and a explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure or a scheme.
- Abstract/Table of Contents Graphic: Authors are encouraged to provide a graphical representation of the paper (in either JPEG, GIF, PNG or PDF format) to be used as a graphic of the paper, along with the abstract, on the Table of Contents. The graphic should not exceed 500 pixels width/height. As an example, authors may review the abstract graphic of following papers:
- http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/9/1/490
- http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/14/1/378
- Electronic Supplementary Information (ESI): Conference slides, video sequences, software, etc., can be included with the submission and published as supplementary material. Please read the information about Supplementary Material Deposit beneath.
Review / Referees
Authors should suggest at least 5 potential referees with the appropriate technical expertise, although the Editor will not necessarily approach them. Their addresses, homepage addresses, phone and fax numbers and e-mail addresses should be provided as fully as possible. At least two of the suggested referees must be from a different country than the author's one. At least two of the suggested referees must be from a western country (USA, Canada, Japan, Australia or western European country). You may choose appropriate ones from the Entropy Editorial Board.
English corrections
This journal is published in English, so it is essential that for proper refereeing and quick publication all manuscripts are submitted in grammatically correct English. For this purpose we ask that non-native English speakers ensure their manuscripts are checked before submitting them for consideration. We suggest that for this purpose your manuscript be revised by an English speaking colleague before submission. Authors can also use the services of American Journal Experts (AJE) for this purpose. Authors of articles submitted to MDPI journals benefit of a one-time 10% discount on AJE's charges. Simply follow the above link to make use of the referral discount. Additional fees of CHF 250 will be paid by authors if extensive English corrections must be done by the editors.
Copyright / Open Access
Articles published in Entropy will be open-access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license. MDPI will insert following note at the end of the published text:
© 200... by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
Reprints
Reprints may be ordered. Please visit http://www.mdpi.org/reprints/ for more information or to order reprints.
Supplementary Material Deposit
- We wish to encourage the submission of supplementary data in electronic formats, so that important (scientific) information is retained in full.
Editorial Board
Journal Contact
Entropy Editorial Office
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Kandererstrasse 25, CH - 4057 Basel, Switzerland
E-Mail: entropy@mdpi.org
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34; Fax: +41 61 302 89 18
Editorial Office
Editor-in-Chief
Dr. Peter Harremoës *
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 20 592 42 44
Website: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ph/
E-Mail: P.Harremoes@cwi.nl
Interests: symmetry, information divergence, cause and effect, Maxwell's demon, probability and statistics
* Dr. Michel Petitjean served as the Editor-in-Chief during July 2003-June 2006
Assistant Editor
Mr. Wei Yan
MDPI Beijing Office, Liyuanbeijie Road 186, Suite 307, Liyuan Town, Tongzhou District, 101101 Beijing, China
Tel. +86 10 59011068; Fax: +86 10 59011089
E-Mail: wei.yan@em.mdpi.org
Editorial Board
Dr. James Baker-Jarvis
National Institute of Standards and Technology, 325 Broadway, MS 818.01, Boulder, CO, USA
Tel. +1 303 497 5621
E-Mail: jjarvis@boulder.nist.gov
Interests: dielectrics; electromagnetic properties of materials; maximum entropy methods; statistical mechanics; measurement of entropy
Prof. Dr. Jacob Bekenstein
Polak Professor of Theoretical Physics, Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904; Israel
Tel. +972 (0)2 658 4374; Fax: +972 (0)2 5611519
Website: http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~bekenste/
E-Mail: bekenste@vms.huji.ac.il
Interests: gravitational theory; black hole physics; relativistic magnetohydrodynamics; galactic dynamics; physical aspects of information theory; physics of the vacuum
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Aziz Bouchene
Laboratoire Collisions, Agregats , Reactivite, UMR 5589, Universite Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, Toulouse, France
Tel. +33 5 61 55 60 02; Fax: +33 5 61 55 83 17
E-Mail: aziz@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr
Interests: optical sciences; atomic and molecular physics; coherent control
Contribution: Special Issue: Recent Advances in Entanglement and Quantum Information Theory
Prof. Dr. Philip Broadbridge
Diretor, Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, 111 Barry Street, c-/ The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
Tel. +61 (0)3 8344 1779; Fax: +1 (0)3 9349 4106
Website: http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person130135.html
E-Mail: phil@amsi.org.au
Interests: Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications
Contribution: Special Issue: Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications - Papers presented at the Meeting at University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007
Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira
Department of Statistics, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, C.P. 66281, 05389-970 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
Tel. +55 (0) 11 818 6101; Fax: +55 (0) 11 814 4135
Website: http://www.ime.usp.br/~cpereira
E-Mail: cpereira@ime.usp.br
Interests: bayesian inference; foundations of statistics; significance; evidence; bayesian analysis of discrete data (BADD)
Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Dincer
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology (UOIT), 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K4, Canada
Tel. +1 905 721 8668 ext: 2573, Cell: 905 441 2229; Fax: +1 905 721 3370
Website: http://www.engineering.uoit.ca/people/dincer.php
E-Mail: Ibrahim.Dincer@uoit.ca
Interests: hydrogen and fuel cell systems; renewable energies; energy and exergy; energy conversion and management; heat and mass transfer; thermodynamics; drying; refrigeration; thermal energy storage
Contribution: Special Issue: Entropy Generation in Thermal Systems and Processes
Dr. Laurance R. Doyle
Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute, 515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, California, 94043, USA
Tel. +1 650 960 4533
Website: http://www.seti.org/
E-Mail: ldoyle@seti.org
Interests: photometric techniques for detecting extrasolar planets; information theory applied to animal communications; astro-ecology and remote detection of exobiological systems; quantum astronomy and cosmic-scale quantum measurement problems
Contribution: Special Issue: Information Theory Applied to Animal Communication
Dr. Ramon Ferrer i Cancho
TALP Research Center, Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informatics, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord, Edifici Omega Jordi Girona Salgado 1-3, 08034 Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain
Tel. +34 934137870; Fax: +34 934137787
Website: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~rferrericancho/
E-Mail: rferrericancho@lsi.upc.edu
Interests: applications of information theory and network theory to biology and linguistics; quantitative linguistics; corpus linguistics; origins and evolution of language
Contribution: Special Issue: Complexity of Human Language and Cognition
Dr. Remo Garattini
Faculty of Engineering, University of Bergamo, Viale Marconi 5, 24044 Dalmine (Bergamo), Italy
Tel. +39 035 2052320; Fax: +39 035 2052310
E-Mail: remo.garattini@unibg.it
Interests: quantum gravity; quantum cosmology; quantum field theory
Contribution: Special Issue: Entropy in Quantum Gravity
Prof. Dr. Alexander Gorban
Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 116 223 14 33
Website: http://www.math.le.ac.uk/people/ag153/
E-Mail: ag153@leicester.ac.uk
Interests: neural networks; chemical and biological kinetics; human adaptation to hard living conditions; methods and technologies of collective thinking
Contribution: Special Issue: Entropy in Model Reduction
Dr. Donald J. Jacobs
Department of Physics and Optical Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
Tel. +1 704 687 8143; Fax: +1 704 687 8197
Website: http://maxwell.uncc.edu/djacobs1/
E-Mail: djacobs1@uncc.edu
Interests: computational physics; biological physics; protein stability; phase transitions; brownian motion
Contribution: Special Issue: Entropies of Polymers
Dr. Axel Kleidon
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Biogeochemie, Postfach 10 01 64, 07701 Jena, Germany
Tel. +49 3641 57 6217; Fax: +49 3641 57 7217
Website: http://gaia.mpg.de/
E-Mail: akleidon@bgc-jena.mpg.de
Interests: biodiversity; maximum entropy production; thermodynamics and optimality in the Earth system; Gaia hypothesis; global dynamic vegetation models
Contribution: Special Issue: What Is Maximum Entropy Production and How Should We Apply It?
Prof. Dr. Frank C. Krysiak
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics, Environmental Economics, Peter Merian-Weg 6, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 267 33 60; Fax: +41 61 267 04 96
Website: http://www.wwz.unibas.ch/kopfzeile/personen/profil/profil/person/krysiak/abteilung/umwelt/
E-Mail: Frank.Krysiak@unibas.ch
Interests: environmental policy under uncertainty; risk and sustainable development; heterogeneity and policy evaluation
Prof. Dr. Ingo Müller
Technical University Berlin, Faculty III of Process Sciences, Institute of Process, Engineering, Thermodynamics, Fasanenstr. 90, D-10623 Berlin, Germany
E-Mail: ingo.mueller@alumni.tu-berlin.de
Interests: irreversible and extended thermodynamics; kinetic theory of gases; shape memory alloys; ferroelectricity; phase transitions and phase diagrams; hysteresis; polyelectrolytic gels; relativistic thermodynamics; rubber and rubber balloons; socio-thermodynamics; history of thermodynamics
Dr. Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Valckenierstraat 65-67, 1018 XE Amsterdam, room 2.43, The Netherlands
Tel. +31 (0)20 5256332; Fax: +31 (0)20 5255778
Website: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~nieuwenh/
E-Mail: nieuwenh@science.uva.nl
Interests: foundations of general relativity; sub-quantum mechanics; quantum information theory; quantum measurement process; quantum thermodynamics and the Gibbs paradox; Biophysics: molecular motors; neural networks; DNA adsorption; black hole thermodynamics; black hole information paradox; Gravitation: globular star clusters; thermodynamic description of the glassy state; spin glasses and model glasses; transport of light in strongly scattering media; interfaces and directed polymers; lifshitz and Griffiths singularities; noise in physical systems; random walks on random lattices; disordered chains; foundations of special relativity
Contribution: Special Issue: Gibbs Paradox and Its Resolutions
Dr. Michael Nosonovsky
Department of Mechanical Engineering, EMS Building, Room E371G, College of Engineering & Applied Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413, USA
Tel. +1 414 229 2816; Fax: +1 414 229 6958
E-Mail: nosonovs@uwm.edu
Interests: nanotribology; multiscale mechanisms of dissipation; capillary; instabilities; biotribology; contact mechanics
Contribution: Special Issue: Entropy and Friction
Prof. Dr. Tadeusz W. Patzek
Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The Lois K. and Richard D. Folger Leadership Chair, The University of Texas at Austin, CPE 2.502, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Website: http://www.pge.utexas.edu/faculty/patzek.cfm
E-Mail: patzek@mail.utexas.edu
Interests: petroleum; chemical, and environmental engineering; ecology
Contribution: Special Issue: Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
Dr. Joe Rosen
Adjunct Professor, The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Tel. +1 301 610 7666; Fax: +1 301 610 7666
E-Mail: joerosen@mailaps.org
Interests: symmetry; Curie principle; space; time; spacetime; quantum
Contribution: Special Issue: Symmetry and Entropy
Prof. Dr. Marc A. Rosen
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Ontario, Institute of Technology, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario, L1H 7K4, Canada
Tel. +1 905 721 8668, ext 3756 ; Fax: +1 905 721 3370
Website: http://www.engineering.uoit.ca/people/rosen
E-Mail: marc.rosen@uoit.ca
Interests: sustainable development; energy; exergy; efficiency; environmental impact; economics; ecology; sustainable engineering and design
Contribution: Special Issue: Exergy: Analysis and Applications
Dr. Stanley (Stan) N. Salthe
HCR 86, 228 Laurel Bank Avenue, Deposit, New York 13754, USA
Fax: +1 607 467 2200
Website: http://www.nbi.dk/~natphil/salthe/index.html
E-Mail: ssalthe@binghamton.edu
Interests: thermodynamic aspects of development; dissipative structures; maximum entropy production principle (MEPP); philosophical interpretations of entropy
Prof. Dr. Bernard Testa
Pharmacy Department, University Hospital Centre, CHUV/BH-04, 46 Rue du Bugnon, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel. +41 21 314 4237; Fax: +41 21 314 4992
E-Mail: Bernard.Testa@chuv.ch
Interests: Emergence / emergent properties; dissolvence / Constrained properties; biochemical systems; drug-biosystem interactions; molecular dynamics simulations
Prof. Dr. Paul M. B. Vitányi
CWI, Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tel. + 31 20 5924124; Fax: + 31 20 5924199
Website: http://www.cwi.nl/~paulv/
E-Mail: Paul.Vitanyi@cwi.nl
Interests: cellular automata; computational complexity; distributed and parallel computing; machine learning and prediction; physics of computation; Kolmogorov complexity; information theory; quantum computing
Dr. Takuya Yamano
Department of Information Sciences, Faculty of Science, Kanagawa University, 2946 Tsuchiya, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1293, Japan And Department of Physics, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan
Tel. +81 45 472 8796 ; Fax: +81 45 473 1280
E-Mail: yamano@amy.hi-ho.ne.jp
Interests: nonextensivity; complexity; information; economics
Contribution: Special Issue: Distance in Information and Statistical Physics
Dr. Paola Zizzi
Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of Padova, Via Belzoni 7, 35131 Padova, Italy
Tel. +39 049 8275862; Fax: +39 049 8275892
Website: http://www.math.unipd.it
E-Mail: zizzi@math.unipd.it
Interests: quantum gravity; quantum cosmology; quantum information
Contribution: Special Issue: Quantum Spaces: Where Locality Is not Necessary, Causality Might not Be, but Entropy Certainly Is
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