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This paper develops near-optimal sustainable harvesting strategies for the predator in a predator-prey system. The objective function is of long-run average per unit time type. To date, ecological systems under environmental noise are…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-10 Dang H. Nguyen , George Yin

L\'{e}vy flights is a random walk where the step-lengths have a probability distribution that is heavy-tailed. It has been shown that L\'{e}vy flights can maximize the efficiency of resource searching in uncertain environments, and also…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Jiamin Wei , YangQuan Chen , Yongguang Yu , Yuquan Chen

We record and analyze the movement patterns of the marsupial {\it Didelphis aurita} at different temporal scales. Animals trajectories are collected at a daily scale by using spool-and-line techniques, and with the help of radio-tracking…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-24 E. Brigatti , B. Ríos-Uzeda , M. V. Vieira

Population dynamics of individuals undergoing birth and death and diffusing by short or long ranged twodimensional spatial excursions (Gaussian jumps or L\'{e}vy flights) is studied. Competitive interactions are considered in a global case,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-25 E. Heinsalu , E. Hernandez-Garcia , C. Lopez

Truncated L\'{e}vy flights are random walks in which the arbitrarily large steps of a L\'{e}vy flight are eliminated. Since this makes the variance finite, the central limit theorem applies, and as time increases the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-12-02 Paolo Santini

After a short excursion from discovery of Brownian motion to the Richardson "law of four thirds" in turbulent diffusion, the article introduces the L\'{e}vy flight superdiffusion as a self-similar L\'{e}vy process. The condition of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. A. Dubkov , B. Spagnolo , V. V. Uchaikin

We study symmetric L\'evy flights in a semi-infinite domain $[0,\infty)$ with a reflecting and absorbing boundary at 0. To this end, we use the fractional differential equation that governs the L\'evy process. Incorporating the boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-30 Barnali Pyne , Kiran M. Kolwankar

We study the kinetics for the search of an immobile target by randomly moving searchers that detect it only upon encounter. The searchers perform intermittent random walks on a one-dimensional lattice. Each searcher can step on a nearest…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Gleb Oshanin , Katja Lindenberg , Horacio S Wio , Sergei Burlatsky

The search for hidden targets is a fundamental problem in many areas of science, engineering, and other fields. Studies of search processes often adopt a probabilistic framework, in which a searcher randomly explores a spatial domain for a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Sean D Lawley

What is the most efficient search strategy for the random located target sites subject to the physical and biological constraints? Previous results suggested the L\'evy flight is the best option to characterize this optimal problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-22 Caibin Zeng , YangQuan Chen

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…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Noriyuki P. Tani , Alan Blatt , David A. Quint , Ajay Gopinathan

L\'evy Flights are paradigmatic generalised random walk processes, in which the independent stationary increments---the "jump lengths"---are drawn from an $\alpha$-stable jump length distribution with long-tailed, power-law asymptote. As a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 A. Padash , A. V. Chechkin , B. Dybiec , I. Pavlyukevich , B. Shokri , R. Metzler

Active particles, which are self-propelled nonequilibrium systems, are modelled by overdamped Langevin equations with colored noise, emulating the self-propulsion. In this chapter, we present a review of the theoretical results for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-12 Urna Basu , Sanjib Sabhapandit , Ion Santra

We solve an adaptive search model where a random walker or L\'evy flight stochastically resets to previously visited sites on a $d$-dimensional lattice containing one trapping site. Due to reinforcement, a phase transition occurs when the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-10-11 Andrea Falcón-Cortés , Denis Boyer , Luca Giuggioli , Satya N. Majumdar

We introduce a strategy of navigation in undirected networks, including regular, random, and complex networks, that is inspired by L\'evy random walks, generalizing previous navigation rules. We obtained exact expressions for the stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-22 A. P. Riascos , José L. Mateos

A biological competition model where the individuals of the same species perform a two-dimensional Markovian continuous-time random walk and undergo reproduction and death is studied. The competition is introduced through the assumption…

Biological Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 E. Heinsalu , E. Hernandez-Garcia , C. Lopez

Animal movements have been related to optimal foraging strategies where self-similar trajectories are central. Most of the experimental studies done so far have focused mainly on fitting statistical models to data in order to test for…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-23 Octavio Miramontes , Og DeSouza , Leticia Ribeiro Paiva , Alessandra Marins , Sirio Orozco

In this paper, we intend to formulate a new metaheuristic algorithm, called Cuckoo Search (CS), for solving optimization problems. This algorithm is based on the obligate brood parasitic behaviour of some cuckoo species in combination with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Xin-She Yang , Suash Deb

The Levy walk in which the frequency of occurrence of step lengths follows a power-law distribution, can be observed in the migratory behavior of organisms at various levels. Levy walks with power exponents close to 2 are observed, and the…

L\'evy stable (jump-type) processes are examples of intrinsically nonlocal random motions. This property becomes a serious obstacle if one attempts to model conditions under which a particular L\'evy process may be subject to physically…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Piotr Garbaczewski , Mariusz Żaba