Time delay implies cost on task switching: A model to investigate the efficiency of task partitioning

DOI10.1007/S11538-013-9851-4MaRDI QIDQ372010zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Heiko Hamann, I. Karsai, T. Schmickl

Publication date 11 October 2013

Published in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-013-9851-4

zbMATH Keywords

common stomachsocial croptime-delay model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Animal behavior (92D50) Special processes (60K99) Qualitative investigation and simulation of models involving functional-differential equations (34K60) Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08)

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