Lévy strategies in intermittent search processes are advantageous

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 11055-11059

  Lomholt, Michael A ^a,b   Koren, Tal ^c   Metzler, Ralf ^b   Klafter, Joseph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

L vy walk; Movement ecology; Optimization; Random processes

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 49649098242     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803117105     Document Type: Article

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