Complexity
A section of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300).
Section Information
Complex systems are pervasive in many areas of science and we find them every day and everywhere. Examples include financial markets, highway transportation networks, telecommunication networks, world and country economies, social networks, immunological systems, living organisms, computational systems and electrical and mechanical structures. Complex systems are often composed of a large number of interconnected and interacting entities, exhibiting much richer global scale dynamics than could be obtained from the properties and behaviour of the individual entities. Complex systems are studied in many areas of natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, physics and mathematical sciences.
The section on Complexity focuses on original and new research results in systems dynamics. Manuscripts on complex systems, nonlinearity, chaos and fractional dynamics from the thermodynamics or information processing perspectives are solicited. We welcome submissions addressing novel issues, as well as those on more specific topics, illustrating the broad impact of entropy-based techniques in complexity, nonlinearity and fractionality. Download Section Flyer
Keywords
Theoretical Aspects:
- algorithmic information theory
- bifurcation
- big data
- complex adaptive system
- complex and disordered systems
- complex network
- complex patterns
- complex systems
- complexity
- complexity and chaos theory
- computational complexity theory
- cybernetics
- data analysis
- data series
- entropy
- fractals
- fractional calculus
- fractionality
- information processing
- information theory, information fluctuation complexity
- Kolmogorov complexity
- network theory
- nonlinear dynamics
- nonlinearity
- power law
- probability theory
- randomness
- scientific visualization
- spontaneous order and self-organization
- stable distribution
- stochastic multiscale modeling
Application Aspects:
- complexity and management
- complexity and economics
- complexity and biology
- complexity and chemistry
- complexity and education
- complexity and modeling
- complexity and genetics
- complexity and geophysics
- complexity and engineering
- complexity and ecology
- complexity and network science
- complexity in rare and extreme phenomena
- general form of complexity computation
- general applications of complexity
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Complexity in Financial Networks (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Dynamics in Biological and Social Networks (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Modeling and Control of Epidemic Spreading in Complex Societies (Deadline: 31 August 2024)
- Entropy and Organization in Natural and Social Systems II (Deadline: 15 September 2024)
- Stability and Flexibility in Dynamic Systems: Novel Research Pathways (Deadline: 15 September 2024)
- Entropy-Based Methods in Time Series Identification and Classification with Applications to Engineering and Science (Deadline: 18 September 2024)
- Causality and Complex Systems (Deadline: 24 September 2024)
- Synchronization in Time-Evolving Complex Networks II (Deadline: 30 September 2024)
- Complexity Characteristics of Natural Language (Deadline: 15 November 2024)
- Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (Deadline: 18 November 2024)
- Random Walks and Stochastic Processes in Complex Systems: From Physics to Socio-Economic Phenomena (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- An Information-Theoretical Perspective on Complex Dynamical Systems (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Time Series Analysis in Earthquake Complex Networks (Deadline: 30 November 2024)
- Complexity and Evolution, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 11 December 2024)
- Community Detection and Clustering Complex Networks and Their Applications (Deadline: 15 January 2025)
- Applications of Chaos Theory to Complex Systems Analysis in Engineering (Deadline: 19 January 2025)
- Entropy, Econophysics, and Complexity (Deadline: 30 January 2025)
- Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information II (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Advances in Data Mining and Coding Theory for Data Compression (Deadline: 28 February 2025)
- Risk Spillover and Transfer Entropy in Complex Financial Networks (Deadline: 31 March 2025)
- Spreading Dynamics in Complex Networks (Deadline: 15 April 2025)
- Robustness and Resilience of Complex Networks (Deadline: 30 April 2025)
Topical Collection
Following topical collection within this section is currently open for submissions: