Random Walks on Stochastic Temporal Networks

@article{Hoffmann2013RandomWO,
  title={Random Walks on Stochastic Temporal Networks},
  author={Till Hoffmann and Mason A. Porter and Renaud Lambiotte},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2013},
  volume={abs/1306.0715}
}
In the study of dynamical processes on networks, there has been intense focus on network structure -- i.e., the arrangement of edges and their associated weights -- but the effects of the temporal patterns of edges remains poorly understood. In this chapter, we develop a mathematical framework for random walks on temporal networks using an approach that provides a compromise between abstract but unrealistic models and data-driven but non-mathematical approaches. To do this, we introduce a… 
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