Search and Foraging: Individual Motion and Swarm Dynamics

Introduction
Group Testing
Search and Screening
Games of Search
Foraging
Goal and Structure of This Book

Methods of Optimal Search and Screening
Location Probabilities and Search Density
Search for a Static Target
Search for a Moving Target

Methods of Optimal Foraging
Preying and Foraging by Patches
Spatial Dynamics of Populations
Methods of Optimal Foraging
Inferences and Restrictions

Models of Individual Search and Foraging
Movements of the Agents and Their Trajectories
Brownian Search and Foraging
Foraging by Lévy Flights
Algorithms of Probabilistic Search and Foraging

Coalitional Search and Swarm Dynamics
Swarming and Collective Foraging
Foraging by Multiple Foragers in Random Environment
Modeling by Active Brownian Motion
Turing System for the Swarm Foraging

Remarks on Swarm Robotic Systems for Search and Foraging

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index