Traditionally, life has been thought improbable without assuming a special principle, such as vital power. Here, I try to understand organization of living systems in terms more rational and materialistic notion. have introduced the notion inhomogeneity, which is novel interpretation “negentropy”, equivalent “bound information”, according probabilistic entropy. Free energy metabolites labile wh...

This paper shows that any thermodynamic potential fulfilling some thermodynamic stability criterion (e.g. the chemical affinity or the ectropy) can be used as a potential function for the dissipative (pseudo) Port Hamiltonian formulation of the non isothermal Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR) model. Besides Brayton-Moser formulation is used to obtain some dissipative Port Hamiltonian repre...

In this paper, we describe a new vector similarity measure associated with a convex cost function. Given two vectors, we determine the surface normals of the convex function at the vectors. The angle between the two surface normals is the similarity measure. Convex cost function can be the negative entropy function, total variation (TV) function and filtered variation function. The convex cost ...

This paper presents an application of information theory to identify sets of key players in social networks. First, we define two entropy measures that we use to analyze the structural properties of a social network. Then, we propose a new method aimed at finding a set of key players that solves the KPP-Neg and KPP-Pos problems. Our preliminary experimental results indicate that the entropy mea...

A toy model is analyzed in order to evaluate the linear stability of the gain region immediately behind a stalled accretion shock, after core bounce. This model demonstrates that a negative entropy gradient is not sufficient to warrant linear instability. The stability criterion is governed by the ratio χ of the ad-vection time through the gain region divided by the local timescale of buoyancy....

A new kinetic model for binary mixtures and its Lattice Boltzman (LB) discretization is presented. In the hydrodynamic limit the model recovers the Navier-Stokes and the Stefan-Maxwell binary diffusion equations. The thermodynamic consistency is ensured by the defined non-negative entropy production within the domain of applicability of the model. The present formulation is able to simulate mix...

A procedure is described for finding sets of key players in a social network. A key assumption is that the optimal selection of key players depends on what they are needed for. Accordingly, two generic goals are articulated, called KPP-POS and KPP-NEG. KPPPOS is defined as the identification of key players for the purpose of optimally diffusing something through the network by using the key pla...

By transferring the DIKW hierarchy to the concept of chain, namely data – information – knowledge – wisdom, the knowledge measure is set up as the logarithm of information, while the information is the logarithm of data, so that knowledge metrics are naturally introduced and the mechanism of Brookes’ basic equation of information science is revealed. When knowledge is classified as explicit kno...