Kagan / Ben-Gal Search and Foraging

Individual Motion and Swarm Dynamics
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4822-4210-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

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.

Zielgruppe

Graduate students and researchers in optimization, mathematical biology and algorithms Researchers in data mining and robotics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kagan, Eugene

Ben-Gal, Irad

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensforschung
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Zahlentheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Group Testing
Search and Screening
Games of Search
Foraging
Goal and Structure of This Book

Methods of Optimal Search and Screening
Location Probabilities and Search Density
Search for a Static Target
Search for a Moving Target

Methods of Optimal Foraging
Preying and Foraging by Patches
Spatial Dynamics of Populations
Methods of Optimal Foraging
Inferences and Restrictions

Models of Individual Search and Foraging
Movements of the Agents and Their Trajectories
Brownian Search and Foraging
Foraging by Lévy Flights
Algorithms of Probabilistic Search and Foraging

Coalitional Search and Swarm Dynamics
Swarming and Collective Foraging
Foraging by Multiple Foragers in Random Environment
Modeling by Active Brownian Motion
Turing System for the Swarm Foraging

Remarks on Swarm Robotic Systems for Search and Foraging

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

A Summary appears at the end of each chapter.

Über Autor(innen)

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.