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These proceedings aim to collect the ideas presented, discussed, and disputed at the 40th Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy, MaxEnt 2021. Skilling and Knuth seek to rebuild the foundations of quantum mechanics from probability theory, and Caticha competes in that endeavour with a very different entropy-based approach. Costa connects entropy with general relativity, Pessoa reports new insights on ecology and Yousefi derives classical density functional theory, both through the maximum entropy principle. Von Toussaint, Preuss, Albert, Rath, Ranftl and Kvas report the latest developments in regression and surrogate-based inference with applications to optimization and inverse problems in plasma physics, biomechanics and geodesy. Van Soom presents new priors for phonetics, Stern et al. propose a new haphazard sampling method, and Kelter uncovers two measure theoretic iss phonetics ues with hypothesis testing.

Maximum entropy method --- History of engineering & technology. --- Technology: general issues.

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This book aims at providing a unifying framework, based on Information Entropy and its maximization, to connect the phenomenology of evolutionary biology, community ecology, financial economics, and statistical physics.

Maximum entropy method. --- Information theory --- Information theory. --- MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General. --- Forecasting.

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Mathematical optimization. --- Maximum entropy method. --- Mathematical optimization --- Optimització matemàtica --- Methodology. --- Mètodes de simulació --- Jocs d'estratègia (Matemàtica) --- Optimització combinatòria --- Programació dinàmica --- Programació (Matemàtica) --- Anàlisi de sistemes --- Optimization (Mathematics) --- Optimization techniques --- Optimization theory --- Systems optimization --- Mathematical analysis --- Maxima and minima --- Operations research --- Simulation methods --- System analysis --- Entropy maximization --- Entropy maximum principle --- Maximization, Entropy --- Entropy (Information theory) --- Maximum principles (Mathematics)

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In the last two decades, the understanding of complex dynamical systems underwent important conceptual shifts. The catalyst was the infusion of new ideas from the theory of critical phenomena (scaling laws, renormalization group, etc.), (multi)fractals and trees, random matrix theory, network theory, and non-Shannonian information theory. The usual Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics were proven to be grossly inadequate in this context. While successful in describing stationary systems characterized by ergodicity or metric transitivity, Boltzmann–Gibbs statistics fail to reproduce the complex statistical behavior of many real-world systems in biology, astrophysics, geology, and the economic and social sciences.The aim of this Special Issue was to extend the state of the art by original contributions that could contribute to an ongoing discussion on the statistical foundations of entropy, with a particular emphasis on non-conventional entropies that go significantly beyond Boltzmann, Gibbs, and Shannon paradigms. The accepted contributions addressed various aspects including information theoretic, thermodynamic and quantum aspects of complex systems and found several important applications of generalized entropies in various systems.

ecological inference --- generalized cross entropy --- distributional weighted regression --- matrix adjustment --- entropy --- critical phenomena --- renormalization --- multiscale thermodynamics --- GENERIC --- non-Newtonian calculus --- non-Diophantine arithmetic --- Kolmogorov–Nagumo averages --- escort probabilities --- generalized entropies --- maximum entropy principle --- MaxEnt distribution --- calibration invariance --- Lagrange multipliers --- generalized Bilal distribution --- adaptive Type-II progressive hybrid censoring scheme --- maximum likelihood estimation --- Bayesian estimation --- Lindley’s approximation --- confidence interval --- Markov chain Monte Carlo method --- Rényi entropy --- Tsallis entropy --- entropic uncertainty relations --- quantum metrology --- non-equilibrium thermodynamics --- variational entropy --- rényi entropy --- tsallis entropy --- landsberg—vedral entropy --- gaussian entropy --- sharma—mittal entropy --- α-mutual information --- α-channel capacity --- maximum entropy --- Bayesian inference --- updating probabilities --- n/a --- Kolmogorov-Nagumo averages --- Lindley's approximation --- Rényi entropy --- rényi entropy --- landsberg-vedral entropy --- sharma-mittal entropy

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This book is a collection of 12 papers describing the role of hydrology in water resources management. The papers can be divided s according to their area of focus as 1) modeling of hydrological processes, 2) use of modern techniques in hydrological analysis, 3) impact of human pressure and climate change on water resources, and 4) hydrometeorological extremes. Belonging to the first area is the presentation of a new Muskingum flood routing model, a new tool to perform frequency analysis of maximum precipitation of a specified duration via the so-named PMAXΤP model (Precipitation MAXimum Time (duration) Probability), modeling of interception processes, and using a rainfall-runoff GR2M model to calculate monthly runoff. For the second area, the groundwater potential was evaluated using a model of multi-influencing factors in which the parameters were optimized by using geoprocessing tools in geographical information system (GIS) in combination with satellite altimeter data and the reanalysis of hydrological data to simulate overflow transport using the Nordic Sea as an example. Presented for the third area are a water balance model for the comparison of water resources with the needs of water users, the idea of adaptive water management, impacts of climate change, and anthropogenic activities on the runoff in catchment located in the western Himalayas of Pakistan. The last area includes spatiotemporal analysis of rainfall variability with regard to drought hazard and use of the copula function to meteorologically analyze drought.

Research & information: general --- GR2M --- inverse distance weighting --- rainfall-runoff model --- sensitivity analysis --- multi-influencing factors (MIF) --- vertical electrical sounding (VES) --- electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) --- groundwater resource management (GRM) --- hydro-stratigraphy --- well logs --- precipitation --- climate change --- Sen’s estimator --- Mann-Kendall --- Wadi Cheliff basin --- upper Minjiang River --- marginal distribution --- copula --- bivariate joint distribution --- return period --- rainfall partitioning --- dry tropical forest --- gash model --- interception modelling --- Nordic Sea --- overflow flux --- barotropic pressure --- baroclinic pressure --- annual maximum precipitation --- peaks-over-threshold methods --- statistical analysis --- maximum precipitation frequency analysis --- gamma --- Weibull --- log-gamma --- log-normal --- Gumbel distributions --- nonparametric tests --- drought --- trends --- SPI --- mina basin --- Algeria --- Kunhar River Basin --- streamflow --- trend analysis --- Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) --- anthropogenic impacts --- hydrologic flood routing --- Muskingum flood routing model --- meta-heuristic optimization --- self-adaptive vision correction algorithm --- Adaptive Water Management --- stakeholder engagement --- legislation --- survey --- uncertainty in water management --- water requirements of aquatic and water dependent ecosystems --- water resources allocation --- water balance model