Search and Foraging : Individual Motion and Swarm Dynamics

Eugene Kagan

ISBN 10: 1482242095 / ISBN 13: 9781482242096

Published by CRC Press Jun 2015, 2015

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Neuware - This book examines how to program artificial search agents so that they act optimally or demonstrate the same behavior as predicted by the foraging theory for living organisms. It discusses foraging theory as well as search and screening theory in the same mathematical and algorithmic framework. It presents an overview of the main ideas and methods of foraging and search theories, making the concepts of one theory accessible to specialists of the other. Numerical examples illustrate the application of both theories.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Search and Foraging : Individual Motion and Swarm Dynamics
• Publisher: CRC Press Jun 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1482242095
• ISBN 13: 9781482242096
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 261W x 182H x 22D millimeters 261 millimeters width by 182 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 677 grams

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Synopsis

Since the start of modern computing, the studies of living organisms have inspired the progress in developing computers and intelligent machines. In particular, the methods of search and foraging are the benchmark problems for robotics and multi-agent systems. The highly developed theory of search and screening involves optimal search plans that are obtained by standard optimization techniques while the foraging theory addresses search plans that mimic the behavior of living foragers.

Search and Foraging: Individual Motion and Swarm Dynamics examines how to program artificial search agents so that they demonstrate the same behavior as predicted by the foraging theory for living organisms. For cybernetics, this approach yields techniques that enable the best online search planning in varying environments. For biology, it allows reasonable insights regarding the internal activity of living organisms performing foraging tasks.

The book discusses foraging theory as well as search and screening theory in the same mathematical and algorithmic framework. It presents an overview of the main ideas and methods of foraging and search theories, making the concepts of one theory accessible to specialists of the other. The book covers Brownian walks and Lévy flight models of individual foraging and corresponding diffusion models and algorithms of search and foraging in random environments both by single and multiple agents. It also describes the active Brownian motion models for swarm dynamics with corresponding Fokker–Planck equations. Numerical examples and laboratory verifications illustrate the application of both theories.

About the Author

Eugene Kagan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Ariel University and an advisor in the Department of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His research interests include dynamical systems theory, applied probability, and robotics.

Irad Ben-Gal is a professor and the chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include applied probability, machine learning and information theory applications to industrial and service systems as well as business analytics applications.