期刊
APPLIED NETWORK SCIENCE
卷 4, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1007/s41109-019-0206-4
关键词
Continuous-time Markov chain; Stochastic process; Network; Graph-automorphism; Lumping; Summary statistics; Absorption
资金
- Medical Research Council (UK) through the Skills Development Fellowship [MR/N014855/1]
- Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Government of Spain) [PGC2018-097704-B-I00]
- MRC [MR/N014855/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We propose a unified framework to represent a wide range of continuous-time discrete-state Markov processes on networks, and show how many network dynamics models in the literature can be represented in this unified framework. We show how a particular sub-set of these models, referred to here as single-vertex-transition (SVT) processes, lead to the analysis of quasi-birth-and-death (QBD) processes in the theory of continuous-time Markov chains. We illustrate how to analyse a number of summary statistics for these processes, such as absorption probabilities and first-passage times. We extend the graph-automorphism lumping approach [Kiss, Miller, Simon, Mathematics of Epidemics on Networks, 2017; Simon, Taylor, Kiss, J. Math. Bio. 62(4), 2011], by providing a matrix-oriented representation of this technique, and show how it can be applied to a very wide range of dynamical processes on networks. This approach can be used not only to solve the master equation of the system, but also to analyse the summary statistics of interest. We also show the interplay between the graph-automorphism lumping approach and the QBD structures when dealing with SVT processes. Finally, we illustrate our theoretical results with examples from the areas of opinion dynamics and mathematical epidemiology.
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