An Introduction to Transfer Entropy
An Introduction to Transfer Entropy

Author: Terry Bossomaier

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 3319432222

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This book considers a relatively new metric in complex systems, transfer entropy, derived from a series of measurements, usually a time series. After a qualitative introduction and a chapter that explains the key ideas from statistics required to understand the text, the authors then present information theory and transfer entropy in depth. A key feature of the approach is the authors' work to show the relationship between information flow and complexity. The later chapters demonstrate information transfer in canonical systems, and applications, for example in neuroscience and in finance. The book will be of value to advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the areas of computer science, neuroscience, physics, and engineering.

Transfer Entropy
Transfer Entropy

Author: Deniz Gençağa

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2018-08-24

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 3038429198

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Transfer Entropy" that was published in Entropy

Information Dynamics
Information Dynamics

Author: Harald Atmanspacher

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-11-11

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 1489923055

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Energy and Entropy
Energy and Entropy

Author: Harvey S. Leff

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-08-26

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1000170349

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Energy is typically regarded as understandable, despite its multiple forms of storage and transfer. Entropy, however, is an enigma, in part because of the common view that it represents disorder. That view is flawed and hides entropy’s connection with energy. In fact, macroscopic matter stores internal energy, and that matter’s entropy is determined by how the energy is stored. Energy and entropy are intimately linked. Energy and Entropy: A Dynamic Duo illuminates connections between energy and entropy for students, teachers, and researchers. Conceptual understanding is emphasised where possible through examples, analogies, figures, and key points. Features: Qualitative demonstration that entropy is linked to spatial and temporal energy spreading, with equilibrium corresponding to the most equitable distribution of energy, which corresponds to maximum entropy Analysis of energy and entropy of matter and photons, with examples ranging from rubber bands, cryogenic cooling, and incandescent lamps to Hawking radiation of black holes Unique coverage of numerical entropy, the 3rd law of thermodynamics, entropic force, dimensionless entropy, free energy, and fluctuations, from Maxwell's demon to Brownian ratchets, plus attempts to violate the second law of thermodynamics

Entropy Generation Minimization
Entropy Generation Minimization

Author: Adrian Bejan

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2013-10-29

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1482239175

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This book presents the diverse and rapidly expanding field of Entropy Generation Minimization (EGM), the method of thermodynamic optimization of real devices. The underlying principles of the EGM method - also referred to as "thermodynamic optimization," "thermodynamic design," and "finite time thermodynamics" - are thoroughly discussed, and the me

Handbook of Differential Entropy
Handbook of Differential Entropy

Author: Joseph Victor Michalowicz

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2013-11-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1466583177

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One of the main issues in communications theory is measuring the ultimate data compression possible using the concept of entropy. While differential entropy may seem to be a simple extension of the discrete case, it is a more complex measure that often requires a more careful treatment.Handbook of Differential Entropy provides a comprehensive intro

Information Thermodynamics on Causal Networks and its Application to Biochemical Signal Transduction
Information Thermodynamics on Causal Networks and its Application to Biochemical Signal Transduction

Author: Sosuke Ito

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-16

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 981101664X

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In this book the author presents a general formalism of nonequilibrium thermodynamics with complex information flows induced by interactions among multiple fluctuating systems. The author has generalized stochastic thermodynamics with information by using a graphical theory. Characterizing nonequilibrium dynamics by causal networks, he has obtained a novel generalization of the second law of thermodynamics with information that is applicable to quite a broad class of stochastic dynamics such as information transfer between multiple Brownian particles, an autonomous biochemical reaction, and complex dynamics with a time-delayed feedback control. This study can produce further progress in the study of Maxwell’s demon for special cases. As an application to these results, information transmission and thermodynamic dissipation in biochemical signal transduction are discussed. The findings presented here can open up a novel biophysical approach to understanding information processing in living systems.

Progress in Artificial Life
Progress in Artificial Life

Author: Marcus Randall

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-11-06

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 3540769315

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Australian Conference on Artificial Life, ACAL 2007, held in Gold Coast, Australia, in December 2007. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. Research in Alife covers the main areas of biological behaviour as a metaphor for computational models, computational models that reproduce/duplicate a biological behaviour, and computational models to solve biological problems.