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The usual development of the continuous-time random walk (CTRW) proceeds by assuming that the present is one of the jumping times. Under this restrictive assumption integral equations for the propagator and mean escape times have been…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2009-07-17 Javier Villarroel , Miquel Montero

Continuous Time Random Walks (CTRWs) are jump processes with random waiting times between jumps. We study scaling limits for CTRWs where the distribution of jumps and waiting times is coupled and varies in space and time. Such processes…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-06 Peter Straka

It has been alleged in several papers that the so called delayed continuous-time random walks (DCTRWs) provide a model for the one-dimensional telegraph equation at microscopic level. This conclusion, being widespread now, is strange, since…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-01 Sergey A. Rukolaine , Alexander M. Samsonov

Understanding the movement behaviours of individuals and the way they react to the external world is a key component of any problem that involves the modelling of human dynamics at a physical level. In particular, it is crucial to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gabriele Galatolo , Mirco Nanni

Quantification of the overall characteristics of urban mobility using coarse-grained methods is crucial for urban management, planning and sustainable development. Although some recent studies have provided quantification methods for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-03 Hao Wang , Pengjun Zhao , Xiao-Yong Yan

Geographic space is better understood through the topological relationship of the underlying streets (note: entire streets rather than street segments), which enables us to see scaling or fractal or living structure of far more…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-04 Ding Ma , Itzhak Omer , Toshihiro Osaragi , Mats Sandberg , Bin Jiang

Mobile health applications, including those that track activities such as exercise, sleep, and diet, are becoming widely used. Accurately predicting human actions is essential for targeted recommendations that could improve our health and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Takeshi Kurashima , Tim Althoff , Jure Leskovec

Recent advances in human mobility research have revealed consistent pairwise characteristics in movement behavior, yet existing mobility models often overlook the spatial and topological structure of mobility networks. By analyzing millions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Lu Zhong , Lei Dong , Qi Wang , Chaoming Song , Jianxi Gao

Background: This study is mainly motivated by the need of understanding how the diffusion behaviour of a biomolecule (or even of a larger object) is affected by other moving macromolecules, organelles, and so on, inside a living cell,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-01-15 Matteo Gori , Irene Donato , Elena Floriani , Ilaria Nardecchia , Marco Pettini

A central task in the analysis of human movement behavior is to determine systematic patterns and differences across experimental conditions, participants and repetitions. This is possible because human movement is highly regular, being…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-23 Lars Lau Raket , Britta Grimme , Gregor Schöner , Christian Igel , Bo Markussen

Characterizing hydrodynamic transport in fractured rocks is essential for carbon storage and geothermal energy production. Multiscale heterogeneities lead to anomalous solute transport, with breakthrough-curve (BTC) tailing and nonlinear…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-28 Alessandro Lenci , Yves Méheust , Marco Dentz , Vittorio Di Federico

This paper reviews recent advances in continuous-time quantum walks (CTQW) and their application to transport in various systems. The introduction gives a brief survey of the historical background of CTQW. After a short outline of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Oliver Muelken , Alexander Blumen

We develop two statistical models for space-time abundance data based on a stochastic underlying continuous individual movement. In contrast to current models for abundance in statistical ecology, our models exploit the explicit connection…

Applications · Statistics 2024-09-24 Ricardo Carrizo Vergara , Marc Kéry , Trevor Hefley

In this chapter, we discuss urban mobility from a complexity science perspective. First, we give an overview of the datasets that enable this approach, such as mobile phone records, location-based social network traces, or GPS trajectories…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-06-23 Laura Alessandretti , Michael Szell

The continuous-time random walk (CTRW) model is useful for alleviating the computational burden of simulating diffusion in actual media. In principle, isotropic CTRW only requires knowledge of the step-size, $P_l$, and waiting-time, $P_t$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-01-19 Shahar Amitai , Raphael Blumenfeld

We examine the non-Markovian nature of human mobility by exposing the inability of Markov models to capture criticality in human mobility. In particular, the assumed Markovian nature of mobility was used to establish a theoretical upper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Vaibhav Kulkarni , Abhijit Mahalunkar , Benoit Garbinato , John D. Kelleher

Modeling of human mobility is critical to address questions in urban planning and transportation, as well as global challenges in sustainability, public health, and economic development. However, our understanding and ability to model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-01 Oriol Cabanas-Tirapu , Lluís Danús , Esteban Moro , Marta Sales-Pardo , Roger Guimerà

Scaling mobility patterns have been widely observed for animals. In this paper, we propose a deterministic walk model to understand the scaling mobility patterns, where walkers take the least-action walks on a lattice landscape and prey.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-20 Xiao-Pu Han , Tao Zhou , Bing-Hong Wang

We study a one-dimensional random walk with memory. The behavior of the walker is modified with respect to the simple symmetric random walk (SSRW) only when he is at the maximum distance ever reached from his starting point (home). In this…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-09-27 Maurizio Serva

The intrinsic factor that drives the human movement remains unclear for decades. While our observations from intra-urban and inter-urban trips both demonstrate a universal law in human mobility. Be specific, the probability from one…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-17 Xiao Liang , Jichang Zhao , Ke Xu