Designing a contact process: The piecewise-homogeneous process on a finite set with applications

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 117-153

  Wagner, Aaron B ^a   Anantharam, Venkat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased voter model; Contact process; Correlation length; Oriented percolation; Phase transition; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY; STATE SPACE METHODS;

BIASED VOTER MODEL; CONTACT PROCESS; CORRELATION LENGTH; ORIENTED PERCOLATION; SENSOR NETWORKS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 10244250368     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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