Uniform-in-time transition from discrete dynamics to continuous dynamics in the Cucker–Smale flocking

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (09) ◽  
pp. 1699-1735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seung-Yeal Ha ◽  
Xiongtao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Initial Data ◽  
Discrete Time ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Lyapunov Functional ◽  
Discrete Model ◽  
Stability Estimate ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Time Step ◽  
Time Model

We study a uniform-in-time convergence from the discrete-time (in short, discrete) Cucker–Smale (CS) model to the continuous-time CS model, which is valid for the whole time interval, as time-step tends to zero. Classical theory yields the convergence results which are valid only in any finite-time interval. Our uniform convergence estimate relies on two quantitative estimates “asymptotic flocking estimate” and “uniform[Formula: see text]-stability estimate with respect to initial data”. In the previous literature, most studies on the CS flocking have been devoted to the continuous-time model with general communication weights, whereas flocking estimates have been done for the discrete-time model with special network topologies such as the complete network with algebraically decaying communication weights and rooted leaderships. For the discrete CS model with a regular and algebraically decaying communication weight, asymptotic flocking estimate has been extensively studied in the previous literature. In contrast, for a general decaying communication weight, corresponding flocking dynamics has not been addressed in the literature due to the difficulty of extending the Lyapunov functional approach to the discrete model. In this paper, we present asymptotic flocking estimate for the discrete model using the Lyapunov functional approach. Moreover, we present a uniform [Formula: see text]-stability estimate of the solution for the discrete CS model with respect to initial data. We combine asymptotic flocking estimate and uniform stability to derive a uniform-in-time convergence from the discrete CS model to the continuous CS model, as time-step tends to zero.

scholarly journals Time to Intervene: A Continuous-Time Approach to Network Analysis and Centrality

Psychometrika ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oisín Ryan ◽  
Ellen L. Hamaker
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Discrete Time ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Centrality Measures ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Var Models ◽  
Auto Regressive ◽  
Conceptual Shift

AbstractNetwork analysis of ESM data has become popular in clinical psychology. In this approach, discrete-time (DT) vector auto-regressive (VAR) models define the network structure with centrality measures used to identify intervention targets. However, VAR models suffer from time-interval dependency. Continuous-time (CT) models have been suggested as an alternative but require a conceptual shift, implying that DT-VAR parameters reflect total rather than direct effects. In this paper, we propose and illustrate a CT network approach using CT-VAR models. We define a new network representation and develop centrality measures which inform intervention targeting. This methodology is illustrated with an ESM dataset.

scholarly journals Dividend Moments in the Dual Risk Model: Exact and Approximate Approaches

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (02) ◽  
pp. 399-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric C.K. Cheung ◽  
Steve Drekic
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Laplace Transform ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Discrete Time ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Risk Model ◽  
Time Model ◽  
Jump Size ◽  
Time Of Ruin ◽  
The Time Of Ruin

In the classical compound Poisson risk model, it is assumed that a company (typically an insurance company) receives premium at a constant rate and pays incurred claims until ruin occurs. In contrast, for certain companies (typically those focusing on invention), it might be more appropriate to assume expenses are paid at a fixed rate and occasional random income is earned. In such cases, the surplus process of the company can be modelled as a dual of the classical compound Poisson model, as described in Avanzi et al. (2007). Assuming further that a barrier strategy is applied to such a model (i.e., any overshoot beyond a fixed level caused by an upward jump is paid out as a dividend until ruin occurs), we are able to derive integro-differential equations for the moments of the total discounted dividends as well as the Laplace transform of the time of ruin. These integro-differential equations can be solved explicitly assuming the jump size distribution has a rational Laplace transform. We also propose a discrete-time analogue of the continuous-time dual model and show that the corresponding quantities can be solved for explicitly leaving the discrete jump size distribution arbitrary. While the discrete-time model can be considered as a stand-alone model, it can also serve as an approximation to the continuous-time model. Finally, we consider a generalization of the so-called Dickson-Waters modification in optimal dividends problems by maximizing the difference between the expected value of discounted dividends and the present value of a fixed penalty applied at the time of ruin.

Birth and death processes with random environments in continuous time

1981 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Cogburn ◽  
William C. Torrez
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Time ◽  
Random Environment ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Death Process ◽  
Random Environments ◽  
Birth And Death Process ◽  
Time Model ◽  
Birth And Death Processes ◽  
Discrete Time Model ◽  
Extinction Probabilities

A generalization to continuous time is given for a discrete-time model of a birth and death process in a random environment. Some important properties of this process in the continuous-time setting are stated and proved including instability and extinction conditions, and when suitable absorbing barriers have been defined, methods are given for the calculation of extinction probabilities and the expected duration of the process.

scholarly journals Discrete-Time First-Order Plus Dead-Time Model-Reference Trade-off PID Control Design

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (16) ◽  
pp. 3220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryo Kurokawa ◽  
Takao Sato ◽  
Ramon Vilanova ◽  
Yasuo Konishi
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Time ◽  
Pid Control ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Dead Time ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Control Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time Model ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
First Order

The present study proposes a novel proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control design method in discrete time. In the proposed method, a PID controller is designed for first-order plus dead-time (FOPDT) systems so that the prescribed robust stability is accomplished. Furthermore, based on the control performance, the relationship between the servo performance and the regulator performance is a trade-off relationship, and hence, these items are not simultaneously optimized. Therefore, the proposed method provides an optimal design method of the PID parameters for optimizing the reference tracking and disturbance rejection performances, respectively. Even though such a trade-off design method is being actively researched for continuous time, few studies have examined such a method for discrete time. In conventional discrete time methods, the robust stability is not directly prescribed or available systems are restricted to systems for which the dead-time in the continuous time model is an integer multiple of the sampling interval. On the other hand, in the proposed method, even when a discrete time zero is included in the controlled plant, the optimal PID parameters are obtained. In the present study, as well as the other plant parameters, a zero in the FOPDT system is newly normalized, and then, a universal design method is obtained for the FOPDT system with the zero. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated through numerical examples.

scholarly journals Predicting IBNYR Events and Delays II. Discrete Time

1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Jewell
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Time ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Bayesian Method ◽  
Predictive Accuracy ◽  
Random Delay ◽  
Continuous Time Model ◽  
Practical Situation ◽  
Time Model ◽  
Numerical Example ◽  
Exposure Interval

AbstractAn IBNYR event is one that occurs randomly during some fixed exposure interval and incurs a random delay before it is reported. A previous paper developed a continuous-time model of the IBNYR process in which both the Poisson rate at which events occur and the parameters of the delay distribution are unknown random quantities; a full-distributional Bayesian method was then developed to predict the number of unreported events. Using a numerical example, the success of this approach was shown to depend upon whether or not the occurrence dates were available in addition to the reporting dates. This paper considers the more usual practical situation in which only discretized epoch information is available; this leads to a loss of predictive accuracy, which is investigated by considering various levels of quantization for the same numerical example.

Amplitudes of Composition Fluctuations in the Simplest Chemical Reaction Equilibrium

2004 ◽  
Vol 218 (9) ◽  
pp. 1033-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Šolc ◽  
J. Hostomský
Keyword(s):  
Random Walk ◽  
Discrete Time ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Mean Amplitude ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Composition Fluctuations ◽  
Number Of Particles

AbstractWe present a numerical study of equilibrium composition fluctuations in a system where the reaction X1 ⇔ X2 having the equilibrium constant equal to 1 takes place. The total number of reacting particles is N. On a discrete time scale, the amplitude of a fluctuation having the lifetime 2r reaction events is defined as the difference between the number of particles X1 in the microstate most distant from the microstate N/2 visited at least once during the fluctuation lifetime, and the equilibrium number of particles X1, N/2. On the discrete time scale, the mean value of this amplitude, m̅(r̅), is calculated in the random walk approximation. On a continuous time scale, the average amplitude of fluctuations chosen randomly and regardless of their lifetime from an ensemble of fluctuations occurring within the time interval (0,z), z → ∞, tends with increasing N to ~1.243 N0.25. Introducing a fraction of fluctuation lifetime during which the composition of the system spends below the mean amplitude m̅(r̅), we obtain a value of the mean amplitude of equilibrium fluctuations on the continuous time scale equal to ~1.19√N. The results suggest that using the random walk value m̅(r̅) and taking into account a) the exponential density of fluctuations lifetimes and b) the fact that the time sequence of reaction events represents the Poisson process, we obtain values of fluctuations amplitudes which differ only slightly from those derived for the Ehrenfest model.

scholarly journals Likelihood-based estimation of continuous-time epidemic models from time-series data: application to measles transmission in London

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (25) ◽  
pp. 885-897 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Cauchemez ◽  
Neil M Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Discrete Time ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Generation Time ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Observation Interval ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Time Model ◽  
Similar Time

We present a new statistical approach to analyse epidemic time-series data. A major difficulty for inference is that (i) the latent transmission process is partially observed and (ii) observed quantities are further aggregated temporally. We develop a data augmentation strategy to tackle these problems and introduce a diffusion process that mimicks the susceptible–infectious–removed (SIR) epidemic process, but that is more tractable analytically. While methods based on discrete-time models require epidemic and data collection processes to have similar time scales, our approach, based on a continuous-time model, is free of such constraint. Using simulated data, we found that all parameters of the SIR model, including the generation time, were estimated accurately if the observation interval was less than 2.5 times the generation time of the disease. Previous discrete-time TSIR models have been unable to estimate generation times, given that they assume the generation time is equal to the observation interval. However, we were unable to estimate the generation time of measles accurately from historical data. This indicates that simple models assuming homogenous mixing (even with age structure) of the type which are standard in mathematical epidemiology miss key features of epidemics in large populations.

scholarly journals Extreme stability and almost periodicity in continuous and discrete neuronal models with finite delays

2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mohamad ◽  
K. Gopalsamy
Keyword(s):  
Discrete Time ◽  
Continuous Time ◽  
Model Neuron ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
External Stimulus ◽  
Input Stimulus ◽  
Time System ◽  
Time Model ◽  
Discrete Time Model ◽  
Continuous Time System

We consider the dynamical characteristics of a continuous-time isolated Hopfield-type neuron subjected to an almost periodic external stimulus. The model neuron is assumed to be dissipative having finite time delays in the process of encoding the external input stimulus and recalling the encoded pattern associated with the external stimulus. By using non-autonomous Halanay-type inequalities we obtain sufficient conditions for the hetero-associative stable encoding of temporally non-uniform stimuli. A brief study of a discrete-time model derived from the continuous-time system is given. It is shown that the discrete-time model preserves the stability conditions of the continuous-time system.

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