In 2002, in a seminal article, Bandt and Pompe proposed a new methodology for the
analysis of complex time series, now known as Ordinal Analysis. The ordinal methodology is …

This review provides a summary of methods originated in (non-equilibrium) statistical
mechanics and information theory, which have recently found successful applications to …

Climatic conditions influence the culture and economy of societies and the performance of
economies. Specifically, El Niño as an extreme climate event is known to have notable …

We represent transport between different regions of a fluid domain by flow networks,
constructed from the discrete representation of the Perron-Frobenius or transfer operator …

A growing number of algorithms have been proposed to map a scalar time series into
ordinal partition transition networks. However, most observable phenomena in the empirical …

Over the last two decades the complex network paradigm has proven to be a fruitful tool for
the investigation of complex systems in many areas of science; for example, the Internet …

Agricultural commodities are considered perhaps the most important commodities, as any
abrupt increase in food prices has serious consequences on food security and welfare …

Weather and climate is a fascinating system, which affects our daily lives, and is closely
interlinked with the environment, society and infrastructure. They have large impact on our …

Complexity measures are essential to understand complex systems and there are numerous
definitions to analyze one-dimensional data. However, extensions of these approaches to …

Nowadays we are often faced with huge databases resulting from the rapid growth of data
storage technologies. This is particularly true when dealing with music databases. In this …