Abstract
Dynamic processes leading to natural disasters often translate into random walks in state spaces which are inhomogeneous in transport characteristics. In other words, such random walks will behave differently in different parts of a network which would have different values for transport properties (\(d\!\!f\) and dw if using methods from Chap. 4). Thus, for such networks the application of \(\textit{MFPT}\) calculation methods introduced in Chap. 4 along with many other methods described in literature are not straight forward. This chapter proposes that using the novel concept of dividing the node distribution into patches/clusters known as network primitives (NPs) where all nodes within each primitive share common transport variables, and adopting a ‘hop-wise’ approach to calculate \(\textit{MFPT}\) between any source and target pair as an extension to the methods described under Chap. 4, can be a viable solution for predicting \(\textit{MFPT}\) for random walks in inhomogeneous networks. This methodology’s potential is demonstrated through simulated random walks and with a case study using the dataset of past cyclone tracks over the North Atlantic Ocean. The predictions using the presented method are compared to real data averages and predictions assuming homogeneous transport properties.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Agliari E, Burioni R (2009) Random walks on deterministic scale-free networks: exact results. Phys Rev E 80(3):031125
Godec A, Metzler R (2015) Optimization and universality of Brownian search in quenched heterogeneous media. arXiv preprint arXiv:150300558
Noh JD, Rieger H (2004) Random walks on complex networks. Phys Rev Lett 92(11):118701
Sood V, Redner S, Ben-Avraham D (2005) First-passage properties of the Erdös-Renyi random graph. J Phys Math Gen 38(1):109
Roy C, Kovordányi R (2012) Tropical cyclone track forecasting techniques-a review. Atmos Res 104:40–69
Zerger A, Wealands S (2004a) Beyond modelling: linking models with GIS for flood risk management. Nat Hazards 33(2):191–208
Anderson HE (1983) Predicting wind-driven wild land fire size and shape. US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station
Achtemeier GL, Goodrick SA, Liu Y (2012) Modeling multiple-core updraft plume rise for an aerial ignition prescribed burn by coupling daysmoke with a cellular automata fire model. Atmosphere 3(3):352–376
Aparicio JP, Pascual M (2007) Building epidemiological models from R0: an implicit treatment of transmission in networks. Proc Biol Sci 274(1609):505–512
Colizza V, Vespignani A (2007) Invasion threshold in heterogeneous metapopulation networks. Phys Rev Lett 99(14):148701
Kurella V, Tzou JC, Coombs D, Ward MJ (2015) Asymptotic analysis of first passage time problems inspired by ecology. Bull Math Biol 77(1):83–125
Giuggioli L, Pérez-Becker S, Sanders DP (2013) Encounter times in overlapping domains: application to epidemic spread in a population of territorial animals. Phys Rev Lett 110(5):058103
Condamin S, Benichou O, Tejedor V, Voituriez R, Klafter J (2007b) First-passage times in complex scale-invariant media. Nature 450(7166):77–80
Tejedor V, Benichou O, Voituriez R (2011) Close or connected: distance and connectivity effects on transport in networks. Phys Rev E 83(6):066102
Wijesundera I, Nirmalathas T, Halgamuge MN, Nanayakkara T, mfpt calculation for random walks in inhomogeneous networks. Under Review
Ferguson NM, Keeling MJ, Edmunds WJ, Gant R, Grenfell BT, Amderson RM, Leach S (2003) Planning for smallpox outbreaks. Nature 425(6959):681–685. doi:10.1038/nature02007
Ben-Avraham D, Havlin S (2000) Diffusion and reactions in fractals and disordered systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Finney M, Station RMR (1998) FARSITE. Fire Area Simulator-model development and evaluation, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Reynolds D (2009) Gaussian mixture models, Springer US, book section 196, pp 659–663. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_196
González-Fierro M, Hernández-García D, Nanayakkara T, Balaguer C (2015) Behavior sequencing based on demonstrations: a case of a humanoid opening a door while walking. Adv Robot 29(5):315–329
Celeux G, Soromenho G (1996) An entropy criterion for assessing the number of clusters in a mixture model. J Classif 13(2):195–212
Ratnaweera A, Halgamuge SK, Watson HC (2004) Self-organizing hierarchical particle swarm optimizer with time-varying acceleration coefficients. IEEE Trans Evol Comput 8(3):240–255
Kennedy J, Eberhart R (1995) Particle swarm optimization. In: Proceedings of IEEE international conference on neural networks, vol 4, pp 1942–1948. doi:10.1109/ICNN.1995.488968
Eberhart RC, Shi Y (2001) Particle swarm optimization: developments, applications and resources. In: Proceedings of the congress on evolutionary computation, vol 1. IEEE, pp 81–86
Perra N, Baronchelli A, Mocanu D, Gonçalves B, Pastor-Satorras R, Vespignani A (2012) Random walks and search in time-varying networks. Phys Rev Lett 109(23):238701
Chris Landsea JF, Beven J (2014) Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT2) 1851-2014
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Wijesundera, I., Halgamuge, M.N., Nanayakkara, T., Nirmalathas, T. (2016). Calculating MFPT for Processes Mapping into Random Walks in Inhomogeneous Networks. In: Natural Disasters, When Will They Reach Me?. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1113-9_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1113-9_5
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-1111-5
Online ISBN: 978-981-10-1113-9
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)