@article {Rondoni:2000:0951-7715:1905,
	author = "Rondoni L.",
	author = "Cohen E.G.D.",
	title = "Gibbs entropy and irreversible thermodynamics",
	journal = "Nonlinearity",
	volume = "13",
	year = "2000",
	abstract = "<P>Recently, a number of approaches have been developed to connect the microscopic dynamics of particle systems to the macroscopic properties of systems in non-equilibrium stationary states, via the theory of dynamical systems. In this way a direct connection between dynamics and irreversible thermodynamics has been claimed to have been found. However, the main quantity used in these studies is a (coarse-grained) Gibbs entropy, which to us does not seem suitable, in its present form, to characterize non-equilibrium states. Various simplified models have also been devised to give explicit examples of how the coarse-grained approach may succeed in giving a full description of the irreversible thermodynamics. We analyse some of these models and point out a number of difficulties which, in our opinion, need to be overcome in order to establish a physically relevant connection between these models and irreversible thermodynamics.</P>",
	pages = "1905-1924(20)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iop/non/2000/00000013/00000006/art00303"
}