A CYBERNETIC APPROACH TO POPULATION DYNAMICS MODELING |
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| Authors: | RENATO M CAPOCELLI LUIGI M RICCIARDI |
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| Affiliation: | Institute of Information Sciences, University of Salerno and Laboratory of Cybernetics , Naples |
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| Abstract: | Abstract Some problems arising when modeling population dynamics by means of stochastic difference and differential equations are discussed. For a particular parametrization of logistic growth equations limit diffusion processes are constructed and interpreted in the light of the Ito-Stratonovich controversy. An indirect confirmation of the validity of May's conjecture on the persistence of a population in a randomly varying environment is also obtained. An extension of these results to a wider class of growth equations is finally provided. |
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