Dear Colleagues,

please consider submitting a research article/review to the special issue of Entropy “Probabilistic Inference in Goal-Directed Human and Decision-Making”.

This special issue aims to focus on recent computational, methodological, algorithmic advances regarding inferential processing in decision-making with particular attention on efficiency and biological plausibility.

Topics include:

- computational and neuronal circuits involved in goal-directed decision making, with a focus on the inferential mechanisms;

- novel probabilistic models and methods in decision making including information-theory approaches, statistical and free-energy minimization, hierarchical models, deep networks

- decision-making applications in ethological, social, psychological, psychiatric, robotics, and computer science research.


Entropy is an online open access interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of growing popularity providing an advanced forum for the development and/or application of entropic and information-theoretic studies in a wide variety of applications.

Author Benefits:

- Open Access: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.

- High visibility: indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), MathSciNet (AMS), Inspec (IET), Scopus and other databases.

- Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 19.1 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 5 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the second half of 2018).

More information on the special issue website:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/probabilistic_inference


Looking forward to your contributions


Dr. Francesco Donnarumma

Dr. Domenico Maisto

Dr. Ivilin Stoianov

Guest Editors