You are cordially invited to participate in the 3rd International Electronic and Flipped Conference on Entropy and Its Applications. This event is designed to bring together researchers working in the field to present and discuss their recent contributions, without the need to travel.

The field of entropy-related research has been particularly fruitful in the past few decades, and continues to produce important results in a vast range of fields spanning all branches of the sciences, engineering, social sciences, economics / finance and the humanities. We welcome your contributions on theoretical insights into the entropy concept and on information theory, and on practical applications of the maximum entropy method in any field.

This year, we will also make every effort to facilitate interaction and the exchange of ideas during the conference period. All presenters will be asked to prepare an audio or video of their presentation. This will be uploaded onto the conference platform in advance, for viewing by others during the conference period - possibly one of the first “flipped mode” conferences in the world! We will also schedule an online discussion period for each presentation. We will announce further details of the technological requirements and schedule in due course.

The conference will be organized into six sessions, which reflect the inter-disciplinary nature of entropy and its applications:

• Section A
  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 B
  Information Theory: Shannon Entropy, Kullback-Leibler Divergence, Channel Capacity, Alternative Entropies, and Applications
• Section C
  Complex Systems: Self-Organization, Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics, Simplicity and Complexity, Networks, Symmetry Breaking, Similarity
• Section D
  Chemistry and Biology: Chemical Networks, Energy, Enthalpy, Maximum Entropy Methods, Biological Networks, Evolution, DNA and RNA, Diversity
• Section E
  Machine Learning and Systems Theory: Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, Cybernetics, Robotics, Man–Machine Interfaces, Causality
• Section P
  Posters: In this section, posters can be presented stand-alone, i.e., without an accompanying proceedings paper or conference presentation. 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.

Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference, and selected/extended papers will be considered for publication in Entropy with a 20% discount off the APC. Entropy is an open access publication journal of MDPI in the field of entropy and information theory.

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: 18 September 2016
Notification of Acceptance: 30 September 2016
Submission of Full Paper and Poster/Presentation: 20 October 2016
Conference Open: 1-10 November 2016

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Third e-Conference on Entropy!

Best regards,
Robert Niven
The University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia
www.maxent.net
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Robert Niven has a BSc (Hons) in chemistry and geology and a PhD in civil and environmental engineering, both from The University of New South Wales, Australia. He is a long-standing Editorial Board Member and reviewer for Entropy (since 2007), and was Chair of the MaxEnt 2013 conference in Canberra, Australia. Over the past decade, Dr Niven has developed new theoretical perspectives into the entropy concept based on combinatorial reasoning, and has also pioneered new applications of the maximum entropy method for the analysis of dissipative non-equilibrium systems, fluid flow systems, dynamical systems and flow networks. This research has been recognized by a number of international fellowships and awards, including Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Invitation Fellowship (2006), Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship, Denmark (14 months, 2007‑08); Endeavour Executive Award (2010), Isaac Newton Institute Visiting Fellowship (2010), CNRS Fellowship, France (2011) and Invited Professor, Institut PPrime / Région Poitou-Charentes, France (11 months, 2014). His most recent research interests include the maximum entropy analysis of turbulent flow systems, graphical systems and urban flow networks, including distributed power generation, water distribution and vehicular systems.

Sessions

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

1. Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-250 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 18 September 2016.
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 3rd International Electronic and Flipped Conference on Entropy and Applications. All authors will be notified by 30 September 2016 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit the manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video presentation of his/her paper (only PDF), until the submission deadline of 20 October 2016.
4. The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available on sciforum.net/conference/ecea-3 for discussion during the time of the conference 1-10 November 2016.
5. The Open Access Journal Entropy will publish Special Issue of the conference and accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference itself. After the conference, the Conference Committee will select manuscripts that may be included for publication in the Special Issue of the journal Entropy (the submission to the journal is independent from the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer-review, APC...).

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 (200-250 words)
• 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 (including figures, tables and references) and should not exceed 6 pages.

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'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.

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 – ecea@mdpi.com 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: 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 3rd International Electronic and Flipped 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.

ECEA-2016 Microsoft Word template and LaTex template

• 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).
• Paper Length: The conference proceedings paper should not be longer than 6 pages. The conference manuscript should be as concise as possible.
• Formatting / Style: The paper style of the Journal Entropy should be followed. You may download the template file to prepare your paper (see above). 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.

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.

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).