Stochastic applications of media theory: Random walks on weak orders or partial orders

DOI10.1016/J.DAM.2007.04.032MaRDI QIDQ947059zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Claude Falmagne, Yung-Fong Hsu, Fabio Leite, Michel Regenwetter

Publication date 29 September 2008

Published in Discrete Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2007.04.032

zbMATH Keywords

media theorypartial ordersrandom walkstochastic processweak orders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Partial orders, general (06A06) Combinatorics of partially ordered sets (06A07) Foundations of stochastic processes (60G05) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20)

Review text

The paper presents the axioms of a real time random walk on the set of states of a medium and some of their consequences, such as the asymptotic probabilities of the states. The mathematical level is rather elementary, yet the psychological consequences might be of some interest.

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