Using optimal foraging theory to infer how groups make collective decisions

GH Davis, MC Crofoot, DR Farine - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022 - cell.com
Studying animal behavior as collective phenomena is a powerful tool for understanding
social processes, including group coordination and decision-making. However, linking …

Balancing collective exploration and exploitation in multi-agent and multi-robot systems: A review

HL Kwa, J Leong Kit, R Bouffanais - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Multi-agent systems and multi-robot systems have been recognized as unique solutions to
complex dynamic tasks distributed in space. Their effectiveness in accomplishing these …

Early life experience shapes male behavior and social networks in Drosophila

A Bentzur, S Ben-Shaanan, JIC Benichou, E Costi… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Living in a group creates a complex and dynamic environment in which behavior of
individuals is influenced by and affects the behavior of others. Although social interaction …

Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?

J Collet, J Morford, P Lewin… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Learning is ubiquitous in animals: individuals can use their experience to fine-tune
behaviour and thus to better adapt to the environment during their lifetime. Observations …

Strategy maps: Generalised giving‐up densities for optimal foraging

E Arehart, JR Reimer, FR Adler - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Finding a common currency for benefits and hazards is a major challenge in optimal
foraging theory, often requiring complex computational methods. We present a new analytic …

Anomalous diffusion in random-walks with memory-induced relocations

A Masó-Puigdellosas, D Campos, V Méndez - Frontiers in Physics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In this minireview we present the main results regarding the transport properties of
stochastic movement with relocations to known positions. To do so, we formulate the …

Group size and resource fractality drive multimodal search strategies: A quantitative analysis on group foraging

J Nauta, P Simoens, Y Khaluf - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2022 - Elsevier
Foragers within a group might increase individual foraging efficiencies by using public
information to assess local resource availability. This information is often expressed as a …

Anderson-like localization transition of random walks with resetting

D Boyer, A Falcón-Cortés, L Giuggioli… - Journal of Statistical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We study several lattice random walk models with stochastic resetting to previously visited
sites which exhibit a phase transition between an anomalous diffusive regime and a …

Recruitment Strategies and Foraging Patterns of Ants: What Shapes Them and Why?

KN Ganeshaiah - Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 2023 - Springer
The effectiveness of procuring food by any ant colony depends upon the strategies adopted
while recruiting the foragers to fetch food and the geometry of paths that these recruited …

Modelling collective navigation via non-local communication

ST Johnston, KJ Painter - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Collective migration occurs throughout the animal kingdom, and demands both the
interpretation of navigational cues and the perception of other individuals within the group …