作者
Gandimohan M Viswanathan, Sergey V Buldyrev, Shlomo Havlin, MGE Da Luz
发表日期
1999/10/28
期刊
Nature
卷号
401
期号
6756
页码范围
911
出版商
Nature Publishing Group
简介
We address the general question of what is the best statistical strategy to adapt in order to search efficiently for randomly located objects (‘target sites’). It is often assumed in foraging theory that the flight lengths of a forager have a characteristic scale: from this assumption gaussian, Rayleigh and other classical distributions with well-defined variances have arisen. However, such theories cannot explain the long-tailed power-law distributions, of flight lengths or flight times,,, that are observed experimentally. Here we study how the search efficiency depends on the probability distribution of flight lengths taken by a forager that can detect target sites only in its limited vicinity. We show that, when the target sites are sparse and can be visited any number of times, an inverse square power-law distribution of flight lengths, corresponding to Lévy flight motion, is an optimal strategy. We test the theory by analysing …
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