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Topology of urban environments can be represented by means of graphs. We explore the graph representations of several compact urban patterns by random walks. The expected time of recurrence and the expected first passage time to a node…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-04-21 Ph. Blanchard , D. Volchenkov

Recent works have explored the properties of L\'evy flights with resetting in one-dimensional domains and have reported the existence of phase transitions in the phase space of parameters which minimizes the Mean First Passage Time (MFPT)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Daniel Campos , Vicenç Méndez

The graph transformation approach is a recently proposed method for computing mean first passage times, rates, and committor probabilities for kinetic transition networks. Here we compare the performance to existing linear algebra methods,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jacob D. Stevenson , David J. Wales

We investigate the translocation of a single stranded DNA through a pore which fluctuates between two conformations, using coupled master equations. The probability density function of the first passage times (FPT) of the translocation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Flomenbom , J. Klafter

We derive an approximate but explicit formula for the Mean First Passage Time of a random walker between a source and a target node of a directed and weighted network. The formula does not require any matrix inversion, and it takes as only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-10 Silvia Bartolucci , Fabio Caccioli , Francesco Caravelli , Pierpaolo Vivo

This article introduces a model for interacting vertex-reinforced random walks, each taking values on a complete sub-graph of a locally finite undirected graph. The transition probability for a walk to a given vertex depends on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Fernando P. A. Prado , Rafael A. Rosales

Metro networks serve as good examples of traffic systems for understanding the relations between geometric structures and transport properties.We study and compare 28 world major metro networks in terms of the Wasserstein distance, the key…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-15 Wei Li , Jiao Gu , Shiping Liu , Yueying Zhu , Shengfeng Deng , Longfeng Zhao , Jihui Han , Xu Cai

Fractures form the main pathways for flow in the subsurface within low-permeability rock. For this reason, accurately predicting flow and transport in fractured systems is vital for improving the performance of subsurface applications.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 S. Karra , D. O'Malley , J. D. Hyman , H. S. Viswanathan , G. Srinivasan

Querying the shortest path between two vertexes is a fundamental operation in a variety of applications, which has been extensively studied over static road networks. However, in reality, the travel costs of road segments evolve over time,…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zengyang Gong , Yuxiang Zeng , Lei Chen

We extend the random walk framework to include compounded steps, providing first-passage time (FPT) properties for a new class of superdiffusive processes, which are governed by the space-fractional spectral Fokker-Planck equation. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Christopher N. Angstmann , Daniel S. Han , Bruce I. Henry , Boris Z. Huang

Transport systems on networks are crucial in various applications, but face a significant risk of being adversely affected by unforeseen circumstances such as disasters. The application of entropy-regularized optimal transport (OT) on graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Koshi Oishi , Yota Hashizume , Tomohiko Jimbo , Hirotaka Kaji , Kenji Kashima

The random walk process underlies the description of a large number of real world phenomena. Here we provide the study of random walk processes in time varying networks in the regime of time-scale mixing; i.e. when the network connectivity…

Network models are an essential block of modern networks. For example, they are widely used in network planning and optimization. However, as networks increase in scale and complexity, some models present limitations, such as the assumption…

Large scale-free graphs are famously difficult to process efficiently: the skewed vertex degree distribution makes it difficult to obtain balanced partitioning. Our research instead aims to turn this into an advantage by partitioning the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Scott Sallinen , Abdullah Gharaibeh , Matei Ripeanu

It has been recently reported that the reciprocity of real-life weighted networks is very pronounced, however its impact on dynamical processes is poorly understood. In this paper, we study random walks in a scale-free directed weighted…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Zhongzhi Zhang , Huan Li , Yibin Sheng

Cities around the world vary in terms of their transportation networks and travel demand patterns; these variations affect the viability of shared mobility services. This study proposes metrics to quantify the shareability of person-trips…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-07-14 Navjyoth Sarma JS , Michael F Hyland

The network structure of an urban transportation system has a significant impact on its traffic performance. This study uses network indicators along with several traffic performance measures including speed, trip length, travel time, and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-15 Behnam Amini , Farideddin Peiravian , Morteza Mojarradi , Sybil Derrible

We investigate the extreme first-passage statistics of $N$ non-interacting random walkers on discrete, hierarchical networks. {By distinguishing between transport limited by escape from localized initial states (injection-limited) and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Bhargav R. Karamched

Based on the reliability budget and percentile travel time (PTT) concept, a new travel time index named combined mean travel time (CMTT) under stochastic traffic network was proposed. CMTT here was defined as the convex combination of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-12 Wen-Yi Zhang , Wei Guan , Li-Ying Song , Hui-Jun Sun

We obtain an exact formula for the first-passage time probability distribution for random walks on complex networks using inverse Laplace transform. We write the formula as the summation of finitely many terms with different frequencies…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-17 Mucong Ding , Kwok Yip Szeto