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Controlled Branching Processes
| Author | : Miguel González Velasco |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2018-03-13 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1786302535 |
The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive discussion of the available results for discrete time branching processes with random control functions. The independence of individuals’ reproduction is a fundamental assumption in the classical branching processes. Alternatively, the controlled branching processes (CBPs) allow the number of reproductive individuals in one generation to decrease or increase depending on the size of the previous generation. Generating a wide range of behaviors, the CBPs have been successfully used as modeling tools in diverse areas of applications.
Branching Processes and Their Applications
| Author | : Inés M. del Puerto |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2016-09-06 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3319316419 |
This volume gathers papers originally presented at the 3rd Workshop on Branching Processes and their Applications (WBPA15), which was held from 7 to 10 April 2015 in Badajoz, Spain (http://branching.unex.es/wbpa15/index.htm). The papers address a broad range of theoretical and practical aspects of branching process theory. Further, they amply demonstrate that the theoretical research in this area remains vital and topical, as well as the relevance of branching concepts in the development of theoretical approaches to solving new problems in applied fields such as Epidemiology, Biology, Genetics, and, of course, Population Dynamics. The topics covered can broadly be classified into the following areas: 1. Coalescent Branching Processes 2. Branching Random Walks 3. Population Growth Models in Varying and Random Environments 4. Size/Density/Resource-Dependent Branching Models 5. Age-Dependent Branching Models 6. Special Branching Models 7. Applications in Epidemiology 8. Applications in Biology and Genetics Offering a valuable reference guide to contemporary branching process theory, the book also explores many open problems, paving the way for future research.
Workshop on Branching Processes and Their Applications
| Author | : Miguel González |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2010-03-02 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3642111564 |
One of the charms of mathematics is the contrast between its generality and its applicability to concrete, even everyday, problems. Branching processes are typical in this. Their niche of mathematics is the abstract pattern of reproduction, sets of individuals changing size and composition through their members reproducing; in other words, what Plato might have called the pure idea behind demography, population biology, cell kinetics, molecular replication, or nuclear ?ssion, had he known these scienti?c ?elds. Even in the performance of algorithms for sorting and classi?cation there is an inkling of the same pattern. In special cases, general properties of the abstract ideal then interact with the physical or biological or whatever properties at hand. But the population, or bran- ing, pattern is strong; it tends to dominate, and here lies the reason for the extreme usefulness of branching processes in diverse applications. Branching is a clean and beautiful mathematical pattern, with an intellectually challenging intrinsic structure, and it pervades the phenomena it underlies.
Branching Processes
| Author | : Patsy Haccou |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2005-05-19 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 9780521832205 |
This book covers the mathematical idea of branching processes, and tailors it for a biological audience.
Controlled Branching Processes
| Author | : Miguel González Velasco |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2017-11-01 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 0081023448 |
Controlled Branching Processes provides a comprehensive discussion of the available results for discrete time branching processes with random control functions. The independence of individuals’ reproduction is a fundamental assumption in the classical branching processes. Alternatively, the controlled branching processes (CBPs) allow the number of reproductive individuals in one generation to decrease or increase depending on the size of the previous generation. Generating a wide range of behaviors, the CBPs have been successfully used as modeling tools in diverse areas of applications. Presents a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of discrete branching populations with random control of the number of productive individuals Develops models of populations subject to simultaneous multiple immigrations and emigration and shows how these can be used to produce a model with any desired equilibrium distribution Studies discrete series of events that can arise in the process of monitoring one population and how the statistics of these events can be characterized Presents methods for numerical simulation of dynamic populations, giving examples of algorithms that can be used to simulate most of the processes considered in the book, as well as computational intensive methods for estimating the main characteristics of these processes
Branching Processes: Optimization, Variational Characterization, and Continuous Approximation
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : |
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In this thesis, we use multitype Galton-Watson branching processes in random environments as individual-based models for the evolution of structured populations with both demographic stochasticity and environmental stochasticity, and investigate the phenotype allocation problem. We explore a variational characterization for the stochastic evolution of a structured population modeled by a multitype Galton-Watson branching process. When the population under consideration is large and the time scale is fast, we deduce the continuous approximation for multitype Markov branching processes in random environments. Many problems in evolutionary biology involve the allocation of some limited resource among several investments. It is often of interest to know whether, and how, allocation strategies can be optimized for the evolution of a structured population with randomness. In our work, the investments represent different types of offspring, or alternative strategies for allocations to offspring. As payoffs we consider the long-term growth rate, the expected number of descendants with some future discount factor, the extinction probability of the lineage, or the expected survival time. Two different kinds of population randomness are considered: demographic stochasticity and environmental stochasticity. In chapter 2, we solve the allocation problem w.r.t. the above payoff functions in three stochastic population models depending on different kinds of population randomness. Evolution is often understood as an optimization problem, and there is a long tradition to look at evolutionary models from a variational perspective. In chapter 3, we deduce a variational characterization for the stochastic evolution of a structured population modeled by a multitype Galton-Watson branching process. In particular, the so-called retrospective process plays an important role in the description of the equilibrium state used in the variational characterization. We define the retrospective pro.
Branching Processes
| Author | : Krishna B. Athreya |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 3642653715 |
The purpose of this book is to give a unified treatment of the limit theory of branching processes. Since the publication of the important book of T E. Harris (Theory of Branching Processes, Springer, 1963) the subject has developed and matured significantly. Many of the classical limit laws are now known in their sharpest form, and there are new proofs that give insight into the results. Our work deals primarily with this decade, and thus has very little overlap with that of Harris. Only enough material is repeated to make the treatment essentially self-contained. For example, certain foundational questions on the construction of processes, to which we have nothing new to add, are not developed. There is a natural classification of branching processes according to their criticality condition, their time parameter, the single or multi-type particle cases, the Markovian or non-Markovian character of the pro cess, etc. We have tried to avoid the rather uneconomical and un enlightening approach of treating these categories independently, and by a series of similar but increasingly complicated techniques. The basic Galton-Watson process is developed in great detail in Chapters I and II.
Branching Processes in Biology
| Author | : Marek Kimmel |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2015-02-17 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1493915592 |
This book provides a theoretical background of branching processes and discusses their biological applications. Branching processes are a well-developed and powerful set of tools in the field of applied probability. The range of applications considered includes molecular biology, cellular biology, human evolution and medicine. The branching processes discussed include Galton-Watson, Markov, Bellman-Harris, Multitype, and General Processes. As an aid to understanding specific examples, two introductory chapters, and two glossaries are included that provide background material in mathematics and in biology. The book will be of interest to scientists who work in quantitative modeling of biological systems, particularly probabilists, mathematical biologists, biostatisticians, cell biologists, molecular biologists, and bioinformaticians. The authors are a mathematician and cell biologist who have collaborated for more than a decade in the field of branching processes in biology for this new edition. This second expanded edition adds new material published during the last decade, with nearly 200 new references. More material has been added on infinitely-dimensional multitype processes, including the infinitely-dimensional linear-fractional case. Hypergeometric function treatment of the special case of the Griffiths-Pakes infinite allele branching process has also been added. There are additional applications of recent molecular processes and connections with systems biology are explored, and a new chapter on genealogies of branching processes and their applications. Reviews of First Edition: "This is a significant book on applications of branching processes in biology, and it is highly recommended for those readers who are interested in the application and development of stochastic models, particularly those with interests in cellular and molecular biology." (Siam Review, Vol. 45 (2), 2003) “This book will be very interesting and useful for mathematicians, statisticians and biologists as well, and especially for researchers developing mathematical methods in biology, medicine and other natural sciences.” (Short Book Reviews of the ISI, Vol. 23 (2), 2003)
Branching Processes
| Author | : Asmussen |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 468 |
| Release | : 2013-06-29 |
| Genre | : Mathematics |
| ISBN | : 1461581559 |
Branching processes form one of the classical fields of applied probability and are still an active area of research. The field has by now grown so large and diverse that a complete and unified treat ment is hardly possible anymore, let alone in one volume. So, our aim here has been to single out some of the more recent developments and to present them with sufficient background material to obtain a largely self-contained treatment intended to supplement previous mo nographs rather than to overlap them. The body of the text is divided into four parts, each of its own flavor. Part A is a short introduction, stressing examples and applications. In Part B we give a self-contained and up-to-date pre sentation of the classical limit theory of simple branching processes, viz. the Gal ton-Watson ( Bienayme-G-W) process and i ts continuous time analogue. Part C deals with the limit theory of Il!arkov branching processes with a general set of types under conditions tailored to (multigroup) branching diffusions on bounded domains, a setting which also covers the ordinary multitype case. Whereas the point of view in Parts A and B is quite pedagogical, the aim of Part C is to treat a large subfield to the highest degree of generality and completeness possi"ble. Thus the exposition there is at times quite technical.
