<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a7093b57-7fff-0179-cd3a-587ceb76be11" style="font-family:-webkit-standard;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/lpv9Z75fHurD3DfhhutE84t4BIXUlHhTuPWukw1jH0-Rv6NPbAszzMD_yDrn3SaWfToFVZMlKqRFa1phZeHInUk2Fkbql1QlGAZVVt4WrulL1k4sEjRCfqXQorGhYHEIsFSYe_yg" width="624" height="357" style="border: none;"></span></span><br><br><br>Dear Colleagues,<br><br>please consider submitting a research article/review to the special issue of <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy" target="_blank"><i>Entropy</i></a> “<b>Probabilistic Inference in Goal-Directed Human and Decision-Making</b>”.<br><br>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.<br><br>Topics include:<br><br>- <b>computational and neuronal circuits</b> involved in goal-directed decision making, with a focus on the inferential mechanisms;<br><br>- <b>novel probabilistic models and methods</b> in decision making including information-theory approaches, statistical and free-energy minimization, hierarchical models, deep networks<br><br>- <b>decision-making applications</b> in ethological, social, psychological, psychiatric, robotics, and computer science research.<br><br><br><i><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy" target="_blank">Entropy</a></i> 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.<br><br>Author Benefits:<br><br>- <b>Open Access</b>: free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.<br><br>-<b> High visibility</b>: indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), MathSciNet (AMS), Inspec (IET), Scopus and other databases.<br><br>- <b>Rapid publication</b>: 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).</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>More information on the special issue website:<br><br><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/probabilistic_inference" target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/probabilistic_inference</a><br><br><br>Looking forward to your contributions<br><br><br><a href="mailto:francesco.donnarumma@istc.cnr.it" target="_blank">Dr. Francesco Donnarumma</a><br><br><a href="mailto:domenico.maisto@icar.cnr.it" target="_blank">Dr. Domenico Maisto</a><br><br><a href="mailto:ivilin.stoianov@istc.cnr.it" target="_blank">Dr. Ivilin Stoianov</a><br><br>Guest Editors<div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"></div></div></div></div>