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In this study, we develop a metapopulation model framework to identify optimal harvesting strategies for a population in a stream network. We consider two distinct optimization objectives: maximization of total biomass and maximization of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Tung D. Nguyen , Zhisheng Shuai , Tingting Tang , Amy Veprauskas , Yixiang Wu , Ying Zhou

Our earlier work in \cite{nguyen2022population} shows that concentrating the resources on the upstream end tends to maximize the total biomass in a metapopulation model for a stream species. In this paper, we continue our research direction…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-31 Tung D. Nguyen , Yixiang Wu , Tingting Tang , Amy Veprauskas , Ying Zhou , Behzad Djafari Rouhani , Zhisheng Shuai

Consider a species whose population density solves the steady diffusive logistic equation in a heterogeneous environment modeled with the help of a spatially non constant coefficient standing for a resources distribution in a given box. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-25 Idriss Mazari , Grégoire Nadin , Yannick Privat

In this article, we consider a species whose population density solves the steady diffusive logistic equation in a heterogeneous environment modeled with the help of a spatially non constant coefficient standing for a resources…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Idriss Mazari , Grégoire Nadin , Yannick Privat

Source-sink systems are metapopulations of habitat patches with different, and possibly temporally varying, habitat qualities, which are commonly used in ecology to study the fate of spatially extended natural populations. We propose new…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-18 Vincent Bansaye , Amaury Lambert

In this paper, we investigate the issue of maximizing the total equilibrium population with respect to resources distribution m(x) and diffusion rates d under the prescribed total amount of resources in a logistic model with nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Xueli Bai , Fang Li , Maolin Zhou

We consider the impact of network connectivity on the dynamics of a population in a stream environment. The population is modeled using a graph theoretical framework, with habitats represented by isolated patches. We introduce a change in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-19 Tung D. Nguyen , Tingting Tang , Amy Veprauskas , Yixiang Wu , Ying Zhou

Following some recent works, we investigate the problem of optimising the total population size for logistic diffusive models with respect to resources distributions. Using the spatially heterogeneous Fisher-KPP equation, we obtain a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Idriss Mazari , Domenec Ruiz-Balet

Source-sink systems are metapopulations of patches that can be of variable habitat quality. They can be seen as graphs, where vertices represent the patches, and the weighted oriented edges give the probability of dispersal from one patch…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-11-11 Vincent Bansaye , Amaury Lambert

In this article, we study the optimization of resource distributions in a one-dimensional logistic diffusive model. The goal is to determine a distribution on a bounded one-dimensional domain that maximizes the total population at…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Junyoung Heo , Yubin Lee

In this work, we consider a population composed of a continuum of agents that seek to maximize a payoff function by moving on a network. The nodes in the network may represent physical locations or abstract choices. The population is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-24 Nirabhra Mandal , Pavankumar Tallapragada

The problem of finding the optimal set of source nodes in a diffusion network that maximizes the spread of information, influence, and diseases in a limited amount of time depends dramatically on the underlying temporal dynamics of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Bernhard Schölkopf

Many populations of animals or plants, exhibit a metapopulation structure with close, spatially-separated subpopulations. The field of metapopulation theory has made significant advancements since the influential Levins model. Various…

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The effective use of limited resources for controlling spreading processes on networks is of prime significance in diverse contexts, ranging from the identification of "influential spreaders" for maximizing information dissemination and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Andrey Y. Lokhov , David Saad

Natural rivers connect to each other to form networks. The geometric structure of a river network can significantly influence spatial dynamics of populations in the system. We consider a process-oriented model to describe population…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Yu Jin , Rui Peng , Junping Shi

We investigate the role of migration patterns on the spread of epidemics in complex networks. We enhance the SIS-diffusion model on metapopulations to a nonlinear diffusion. Specifically, individuals move randomly over the network but at a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-16 Jordi Ripoll , Albert Avinyó , Marta Pellicer , Joan Saldaña

We discuss the population dynamics with selection and random diffusion, keeping the total population constant, in a fitness landscape associated with Constraint Satisfaction, a paradigm for difficult optimization problems. We obtain a phase…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-23 Tommaso Brotto , Guy Bunin , Jorge Kurchan

The field of complex networks studies a wide variety of interacting systems by representing them as networks. To understand their properties and mutual relations, the randomisation of network connections is a commonly used tool. However,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-18 Noam Abadi , Franco Ruzzenenti

Dynamic processes on networks are fundamental to understanding modern-day phenomena such as information diffusion and opinion polarization on the internet or epidemics spreading through society. However, such processes are notoriously…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-15 Noam Abadi , Franco Ruzzenenti

Influence maximization is the task of selecting a small number of seed nodes in a social network to maximize the influence spread from these seeds. It has been widely investigated in the past two decades. In the canonical setting, the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Zhijie Zhang , Wei Chen , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang
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