Is Maximum Entropy Production (MEP) a physical principle? In this paper I tentatively suggest it is not, on the basis that MEP is equivalent to Jaynes’ Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) inference algorithm that passively translates physical assumptions into macroscopic predictions, as applied to non-equilibrium systems. MaxEnt itself has no physical content; disagreement between MaxEnt predictions and e...

This paper revisits the problem of traffic generation from first principles: rather than following up on previous work of providing an explanatory model for why observed traffic matrices look the way they do, this paper generates TM instances subject to user specified spatial and temporal constraints. The authors hereby rely on the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) framework. Maximum Entropy is a powerf...

It is well-known that maximum entropy distributions, subject to appropriate moment constraints, arise in physics and mathematics. In an attempt to find a physical reason for the appearance of maximum entropy distributions, the following theorem is offered. The conditional distribution of X, given the empirical observation (1 /n)X:, ,/I ( X,) = (Y, where X, , X2, . are independent identically di...