The 1st International Electronic Conference on Entropy and its Applications will be held from 3–21 November 2014 in the internet environment. The objective of this event is to bring scientists and engineers working in the field onto a common platform where they can present and discuss their recent contributions without the need to travel.

As this meeting will not require physical presence in any particular location, we are expecting a large attendance from all over the world.

Contributions from both theoretical and applied perspectives of entropy will be covered. Submissions focusing on conceptual and methodological developments, as well as new applications of entropy and information theory will be covered. Some of the main topics of interest, also shared with those of the Entropy Journal, are listed below:

• Physics and Engineering: Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Reversibility, Quantum Mechanics, Black Hole Physics, Maximum Entropy Methods, Maximum Entropy Production, Evolution of the Universe
  (Section A)
• Information Theory: Shannon Entropy, Kullback-Leibler Divergence, Channel Capacity, Renyi and other Entropies, and Applications
  (Section B)
• Complex Systems: Self-Organization, Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, Simplicity and Complexity, Networks, Symmetry Breaking, Similarity
  (Section C)
• Chemistry and Biology: Chemical Networks, Energy, Enthalpy, Maximum Entropy Methods, Biological Networks, Evolution, DNA and RNA, Diversity
  (Section D)
• Machine Learning and Systems Theory: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Cybernetics, Robotics, Man–Machine Interfaces, Causality
  (Section E)
• Posters:In this section posters can be presented stand-alone, i.e. without a proceedings papers that goes with it. Posters will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, posters will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.
  (Section P)

Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference, and selected papers will be considered for publication in Entropy, which is an open access publication journal of MDPI in the field of Entropy (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy).

The 1st International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications will be held at www.sciforum.net/conference/ecea-1, on a platform developed by MDPI to organize electronic conferences. I would like to welcome you to this event with the hope of starting a successful conference series in the future, Best regards,

Deniz Gencaga, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
USA
www.denizgencaga.com

Deniz Gencaga received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bogazici University, in 2007. Upon graduation, he was offered a postdoctoral position at The University at Albany (SUNY), where he developed advanced statistical signal processing methods to characterize complex organic molecules in space and identify the causal relationships between earth climate variables, in two different NASA funded projects. Between 2009 and 2011, he continued his research at The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (NOAA-CREST) at The City College of New York as a Research Associate. After working as a postdoctoral fellow on various machine learning projects at The Center of Space Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas in 2012, he joined the Alcoa Technology in December 2012 as a Senior Statistical Scientist. He continues his career at the Carnegie Mellon University. He was granted the NATO A2 fellowship, best student paper award of IEEE-SIU and ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" fellowship. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and he has been a member of numerous professional societies. Currently, he is serving as the chair of the joint signal processing/control systems societies of the IEEE Pittsburgh local chapter. He was one of the local organizers of the 27th International Conference on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering. He has served as a reviewer in various journals and at the editorial board of the Entropy journal. He has published peer-reviewed research papers and abstracts in numerous journals and conferences and he gave invited talks at various institutes and universities. He taught as a guest lecturer and mentored graduate students both at the University of Texas and University at Albany. His main research areas include Bayesian signal processing, statistical machine learning, data mining, knowledge discovery, computational intelligence, information theory and smart systems.

Submission

Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "New Submission" function once logged into system.

1. Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-300 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 12 September 2014.
2. The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 1st International Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications. All authors will be notified by 26 September 2014 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit his/her manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video presentation of his/her paper (only PDF), until the submission deadline of 10 October 2014.
4. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on sciforum.net/conference/ecea-1 for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 3–21 November 2014.
5. The Open Access Journal Entropy will publish the proceedings of the conference as a Special Issue and accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. After the conference, the Conference Committee will select manuscripts that may be included for publication in this Special Issue.

Proceedings Paper
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:

First page:

• Title
• Full author names
• Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions
• (Acknowledgements)
• References

Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and should be converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references). There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.

Presentation Slides
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the Manuscript. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly in the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.

Video Presentations
Besides their active participation within the forum, authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. If you are interested in submitting, please contact the conference organizer – [email protected] to get to know more about the procedure. This is an unique way of presenting your paper and discuss it with peers from all over the world. Make a difference and join us for this project!

Submission of Manuscripts

Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.sciforum.net/login by registering and logging in to this website.

Accepted File Formats
• MS Word: Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Electronic Conference on Entropy and Its Applications Microsoft Word template file (see download below) 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.

• 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 MDPI LaTeX template files.

For LaTeX support, contact Ms Janine Daum ([email protected]).

Manuscript Preparation

• 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 the Journal Entropy should be followed. You may download the template file to prepare your paper. 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.
• 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 street 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.
• 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.

For further enquiries please contact us at [email protected].

Potential Conflicts of Interest

It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section. It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.

Copyright

MDPI AG, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a Communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI AG the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).