How should prey animals respond to uncertain threats?

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zylberberg, Joel ^a   DeWeese, Michael Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Constrained optimization; Decision making; Escape decision; Evolution; Probabilistic automata; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; DECISION MAKING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; ESCAPE DECISION; EVOLUTION; PROBABILISTIC AUTOMATA; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS;

CALCULATION; CHEMICAL BINDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE MODEL; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MATING; POPULATION MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84959509399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00020     Document Type: Article

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