Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2009-01-26
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
15 pages, 7 figures. One section added
Scientific paper
Many studies on animal and human movement patterns report the existence of scaling laws and power-law distributions. Whereas a number of random walk models have been proposed to explain observations, in many situations individuals actually rely on mental maps to explore strongly heterogeneous environments. In this work we study a model of a deterministic walker, visiting sites randomly distributed on the plane and with varying weight or attractiveness. At each step, the walker minimizes a function that depends on the distance to the next unvisited target (cost) and on the weight of that target (gain). If the target weight distribution is a power-law, $p(k)\sim k^{-\beta}$, in some range of the exponent $\beta$, the foraging medium induces movements that are similar to L\'evy flights and are characterized by non-trivial exponents. We explore variations of the choice rule in order to test the robustness of the model and argue that the addition of noise has a limited impact on the dynamics in strongly disordered media.
Boyer Daniel
Larralde Hernán
Miramontes Octavio
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