Thermodynamic derivation and use of a nonequilibrium canonical ensemble
  A thermodynamic expression for the analog of the canonical ensemble for nonequilibrium systems is described based on a purely information theoretical interpretation of entropy. As an application, it is shown that this nonequilibrium canonical distribution implies some important results from nonequilibrium thermodynamics, specifically, the fluctuation theorem and the Jarzynski-equality. 
Maarten H. P. Ambaum
cond-mat.stat-mech