Optimal cooperative searching using purely repulsive interactions

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2014.07.027zbMATH Open1303.92136arXiv1311.1549OpenAlexW2963294713WikidataQ46622956 ScholiaQ46622956MaRDI QIDQ485673FDOQ485673

Alan Blatt, Noriyuki P. Tani, David A. Quint, Ajay Gopinathan

Publication date: 13 January 2015

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Foraging, either solitarily or collectively, is a necessary behavior for survival that is demonstrated by many organisms. Foraging can be collectively optimized by utilizing communication between the organisms. Examples of such communication range from high level strategic foraging by animal groups to rudimentary signaling among unicellular organisms. Here we systematically study the simplest form of communication via long range repulsive interactions between two diffusing Brownian searchers on a one-dimensional lattice. We show that the mean first passage time for either of them to reach a fixed target depends non-monotonically on the range of the interaction and can be optimized for a repulsive range that is comparable to the average spacing between searchers. Our results suggest that even the most rudimentary form of collective searching does in fact lower the search time for the foragers suggesting robust mechanisms for search optimization in cellular communities

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.1549

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zbMATH Keywords

collective behaviorforaging

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Animal behavior (92D50)

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