Speed up iterated manipulations of a graph / table

I am trying to generate a version of Watts' model of cascading shocks to a network following the discussion on p. 20-25 of this article.

The basic premise is to use the RandomGraph function to generate a graph, then create a table of characteristics on from VertexList. The values in the table (x) are the vertex number, the 'persuadability' of the vertex, and the current state (0,1). Everyone is at 0 to start, and we put in an initial shock of 5 vertices going from 0 to 1. Then if the ratio of neighbours who are 1s is above the 'persuadability' number, that neighbour changes its state from 0 to 1.

UPDATE 2

The code below does what I want, in that it iterates the cascade and records each step, and also does it for different initial system shocks.

Ultimately I would like to be able to do the following:

1. Use the code to store a table of x tables at each iteration. This could be used to animate the graph later (using HighlightGraph[SubGraph[...]]).

2. Use the code to simulate various random shocks on the same graph by iterating until the table x does not change.

3. Maybe a nice Manipulate interface at some point.

However, the evaluation takes about 20 minutes, and it also iterates a fixed number of times iter instead of sufficient for convergence. So I have some specific questions.

1. Why is the assignment record[[l]]=x necessary in the Table loop?
2. How can I get the Table to iterate till record[[l]]==record[[l-1]]? (Mike suggests FixedPointList, but I can't seem to get the syntax to work)
3. How can I write the Do loop with the If statement so I can use ParallelDo or similar? (much like the answer here, but with conditions from two lists)
4. What are some other ways to speed this up generally?

UPDATE 3

This part of the code takes about half a second (which seems slow, since it is called every iteration, or 750 times)

nextn = Table[
Drop[VertexList[NeighborhoodGraph[y, neighbourVL[[i]]]], 1], {i,
1, Length[neighbourVL]}];


This generates a table with each row a list of neighbours of the vertexes in the list neighbourVL. Is there a way to get this list with a faster method?

Thanks everyone.

  (* Note 20min evaluation time *)

y = RandomGraph[{100, 150}];
edges = EdgeList[y];
nodes = Partition[
Flatten[Riffle[VertexList[y], Table[{RandomReal[0.7], 0}, {100}]]],
3];
iter = 15;
record = Table[0, {iter}];

output = Table[

shock = Transpose[{RandomSample[Range[100], 5], Table[3, {5}]}];
x = ReplacePart[nodes, shock -> 1];

Table[
converted = Cases[x, {_, _, 1}];

neighbourVL =
Flatten[Table[
Drop[VertexList[NeighborhoodGraph[y, converted[[i, 1]], 1]],
1], {i, 1, Length[converted]}]];

(* Vertex list of neighbours' first neighbours to be evaluated
with If function *)

nextn = Table[
Drop[VertexList[NeighborhoodGraph[y, neighbourVL[[i]]]], 1], {i,
1, Length[neighbourVL]}];

(* Number of neighbours of vertex 1's first neighbour who are 1s *)

neighbourcount =
Table[Table[
Count[x, {Take[nextn[[i, j]]], _, 1}], {j, 1,
Length[nextn[[i, All]]]}], {i, 1, Length[nextn]}];

threshold =
N[Total[neighbourcount, {2}]/
Table[Length[nextn[[i, All]]], {i, 1, Length[nextn]}]];

Do[

If[threshold[[i]] > x[[neighbourVL[[i]], 2]],
x = ReplacePart[x, {neighbourVL[[i]], 3} -> 1]];, {i,
Length[nextn]}];

record[[l]] = x

, {l, 1, iter}]

, {50}];

Histogram[Total[output[[All, -1, All, -1]], {2}]]

Manipulate[
Table[HighlightGraph[y,
Subgraph[y, Cases[output[[j, i]], {_, _, 1}][[All, 1]]]]
, {j, 1, 6}], {i, 1, iter, 1}]

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kguler, for me the {Manipulate} seems to work with or without the {With}. Excuse the beginner question, but what is the purpose of defining l as itself? –  Cameron Murray Oct 23 '12 at 8:53
you are right, it does work with or without With. Sorry for the confusion. –  kguler Oct 23 '12 at 10:01
The link doesn't go to an article by Watt. I found this link (oz.stern.nyu.edu/phd04/watts.pdf) to a PNAS article, but I'd like to see yours. Important topic. –  George Wolfe Oct 23 '12 at 12:17
Thanks George. Your link is the original article. The link I have goes to a paper by Ormerod which simply had a very basic example of Watt's model. –  Cameron Murray Oct 24 '12 at 0:11

I have code that works about 50x faster now. The trick was to use the GraphUtilities package function NeighborhoodVertices[] rather than VertexList[NeighborhoodGraph[]]. It sped up these two lines from about 0.5sec each to 0.007sec. Since these are called 1000 times or more, that's a big help.

I am still interested in a more functional way of doing this. I have two Tables nested with each other, with the inner Table running a Do loop each iteration. Any pointers to previous questions about converted code to functional and faster code is appreciated (I think I have read more of them). It is probably the inner Table function that could be a separate function to map over a table of shocked node lists (x).

It takes about 30sec now (40 shocks with 20 iterations each). Would be great to improve that.

Here is the code

shockNum = 40;
iter = 20;
y = RandomGraph[{100, 130}];
nodes = Partition[
Flatten[Riffle[VertexList[y], Table[{RandomReal[0.6], 0}, {100}]]],
3];

output = Table[
shock = Transpose[{RandomSample[Range[100], 5], Table[3, {5}]}];
x = ReplacePart[nodes, shock -> 1];

Table[
converted = Cases[x, {_, _, 1}];
neighbourVL =
Flatten[Table[
Drop[NeighborhoodVertices[y, converted[[i, 1]], 1], 1], {i, 1,
Length[converted]}]];
nextn =
Table[Drop[NeighborhoodVertices[y, neighbourVL[[i]], 1]], {i, 1,
Length[neighbourVL]}];
neighbourcount =
Table[Table[
Count[x, {Take[nextn[[i, j]]], _, 1}], {j, 1,
Length[nextn[[i, All]]]}], {i, 1, Length[nextn]}];
threshold =
N[Total[neighbourcount, {2}]/
Table[Length[nextn[[i, All]]], {i, 1, Length[nextn]}]];
Do[
If[threshold[[i]] > x[[neighbourVL[[i]], 2]],
x = ReplacePart[x, {neighbourVL[[i]], 3} -> 1]];, {i,
Length[nextn]}];
x
, {iter}]
, {shockNum}];

Manipulate[
Column[{
Histogram[Total[output[[All, i, All, -1]], {2}], 10,
PlotRange -> {{0, 100}, {0, shockNum/2}}, ImageSize -> 550,
AspectRatio -> 0.3, AxesOrigin -> {0, 0}],
Partition[
Table[HighlightGraph[y,
Subgraph[y, Cases[output[[j, i]], {_, _, 1}][[All, 1]]]]
, {j, 1, 6}], 3] // Grid}]
, {{i, 1, "Iteration"}, 1, iter, 1, Appearance -> "Labeled",
ContinuousAction -> False},
FrameLabel -> {{None, None}, {None,
"Watt's model of cascading network failure"}},
AppearanceElements -> All, LabelStyle -> Directive[Black, Medium]]


And here is the output.

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