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We consider the statistics of occupation times, the number of visits at the origin and the survival probability for a wide class of stochastic processes, which can be classified as renewal processes. We show that the distribution of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-08 Mattia Radice , Manuele Onofri , Roberto Artuso , Gaia Pozzoli

We investigate a model for spatial epidemics explicitly taking into account bi-directional movements between base and destination locations on individual mobility networks. We provide a systematic analysis of generic dynamical features of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Theo Geisel , Dirk Brockmann

Human mobility is influenced by environmental change and natural disasters. Researchers have used trip distance distribution, radius of gyration of movements, and individuals' visited locations to understand and capture human mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-18 Qi Wang , John E. Taylor

1. Spatial memory plays a role in the way animals perceive their environments, resulting in memory-informed movement patterns that are observable to ecologists. Developing mathematical techniques to understand how animals use memory in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-17 Peter R. Thompson , Andrew E. Derocher , Mark A. Edwards , Mark A. Lewis

Motivated by various recent experimental findings, we propose a dynamical model of intermittently self-propelled particles: active particles that recurrently switch between two modes of motion, namely an active run-state and a turn state,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-30 Agniva Datta , Carsten Beta , Robert Großmann

It is highly believed that the individuals' mobility plays an important role in phase transition in animal collective motion. Here, we propose a model to study the effects of individuals' mobility in a distributed animal collective…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-03-26 Feng Hu , Zhi Ting Wang , Fang Yang

Social structures influence a variety of human behaviors including mobility patterns, but the extent to which one individual's movements can predict another's remains an open question. Further, latent information about an individual's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-27 Zexun Chen , Sean Kelty , Brooke Foucault Welles , James P. Bagrow , Ronaldo Menezes , Gourab Ghoshal

A mass of traces of human activities show diverse dynamic patterns. In this paper, we comprehensively investigate the dynamic pattern of human attention defined by the quantity of interests on subdisciplines in an online academic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-29 Zhi-Dan Zhao , Ya-Chun Gao , Shi-Min Cai

In recent years, human mobility research has discovered universal patterns capable of describing how people move. These regularities have been shown to partly depend on individual and environmental characteristics (e.g., gender,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-18 Simone Centellegher , Marco De Nadai , Marco Tonin , Bruno Lepri , Lorenzo Lucchini

In this paper we deal with pedestrian modeling, aiming at simulating crowd behavior in normal and emergency scenarios, including highly congested mass events. We are specifically concerned with a new agent-based, continuous-in-space,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-11-23 E. Cristiani , M. Menci , A. Malagnino , G. G. Amaro

Residential mobility is deeply entangled with all aspects of hunter-gatherer life ways, and is therefore an issue of central importance in hunter-gatherer studies. Hunter-gatherers vary widely in annual rates of residential mobility, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-26 Marcus J. Hamilton , Jose Lobo , Eric Rupley , Hyejin Youn , Geoffrey B. West

The strategic behaviour of pedestrians is largely determined by how they perceive and react to neighbouring people. This issue is addressed in this paper by a model which combines, in a time and space-dependent way, discrete and continuous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-23 Annachiara Colombi , Marco Scianna , Andrea Tosin

Many biological phenomena such as locomotion, circadian cycles, and breathing are rhythmic in nature and can be modeled as rhythmic dynamical systems. Dynamical systems modeling often involves neglecting certain characteristics of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-01-20 M. Mert Ankaralı , Shahin Sefati , Manu S. Madhav , Andrew Long , Amy J. Bastian , Noah J. Cowan

Elephant random walk is a special type of random walk that incorporates the memory of the past to determine its future steps. The probability of this walk taking a particular step (+1 or -1) at a time point, conditioned on the entire…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Krishanu Maulik , Parthanil Roy , Tamojit Sadhukhan

We study a general class of random walks driven by a uniquely ergodic Markovian environment. Under a coupling condition on the environment we obtain strong ergodicity properties for the environment as seen from the position of the walker,…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Frank Redig , Florian Völlering

We tracked the eye movements of seven young and seven older adults performing a conjunctive visual search task similar to that performed by two highly trained monkeys in an original influential study of Motter and Belky (1998a, 1998b). We…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-08 Lorenzo Resca , Pamela M. Greenwood , Terrance D. Keech

In the era of mobile computing, understanding human mobility patterns is crucial in order to better design protocols and applications. Many studies focus on different aspects of human mobility such as people's points of interests, routes,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Ivan Oliveira Nunes , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Antonio A. F. Loureiro

The biomechanics of the human body gives subjects a high degree of freedom in how they can execute movement. Nevertheless, subjects exhibit regularity in their movement patterns. One way to account for this regularity is to suppose that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-11 Stuart Hagler

The rates at which individuals memorize and forget environmental information strongly influence their movement paths and long-term space use. To understand how these cognitive time scales shape population-level patterns, we propose and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Kyung-Han Choi , Thomas Hillen

This work is motivated by the study of some two-dimensional random walks in random environment (RWRE) with transition probabilities independent of one coordinate of the walk. These are non-reversible models and can not be treated by…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Nina Gantert , Michael Kochler , Francoise Pene