Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 4 (1998), Issue 2, Pages 99-114
doi:10.1155/S1024123X9800074X
On deterministic approximation of Markov processes by ordinary differential equations
1Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Received 25 September 1996
Copyright © 1998 L. I. Rozonoer. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
For a class of Markov processes on the integer multidimensional lattice, it is shown that the evolution of the mean values of some random variables can be approximated by ordinary differential equations. To illustrate the approach, a Markov model of a chemical reaction is considered