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1. Full Text Optimal potentials for diffusive search strategies
by Kuśmierz, Łukasz and Bier, Martin and Gudowska-Nowak, Ewa
Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, ISSN 1751-8113, 04/2017, Volume 50, Issue 18, p. 185003
We consider one dimensional diffusive search strategies subjected to external potentials. The location of a single target is drawn from a given probability... 
random walk | optimal potential | diffusion in potential | search strategies | optimal search | stochastic control | random search | PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY | PATTERNS | PHYSICS, MATHEMATICAL | ESCAPE | YOUNG TABLEAUX | VICIOUS WALKERS | LEVY | INSIGHTS | ENTROPY | Physics - Statistical Mechanics
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2. Full Text Optimizing search strategies for invasive pests: learn before you leap
by Peter W. J. Baxter and Hugh P. Possingham
Journal of Applied Ecology, ISSN 0021-8901, 2/2011, Volume 48, Issue 1, pp. 86 - 95
1. Strategic searching for invasive pests presents a formidable challenge for conservation managers. Limited funding can necessitate choosing between surveying... 
Agricultural management | Invasive species | Ecological modeling | Fire ants | Editor's Choice | Ecological invasion | Pests | Infestation | Human ecology | Applied ecology | Search strategies | containment | eradication | species distribution models | receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve | adaptive management | state‐dependent management | stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) | value of information | optimal management | invasive species | Species distribution models | State-dependent management | Stochastic dynamic programming (SDP) | Adaptive management | Eradication | Value of information | Optimal management | Containment | Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve | INFORMATION | PERFORMANCE | ANT | POPULATIONS | FORMICIDAE | ALIEN PLANT | DISTRIBUTION MODELS | ECOLOGY | state-dependent management | INVICTA BUREN HYMENOPTERA | OPTIMAL FIRE MANAGEMENT | Mathematical optimization | Analysis | Conservation
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3. Full Text Evaluating random search strategies in three mammals from distinct feeding guilds
by Auger‐Méthé, Marie and Derocher, Andrew E and DeMars, Craig A and Plank, Michael J and Codling, Edward A and Lewis, Mark A and Fryxell, John
Journal of Animal Ecology, ISSN 0021-8790, 09/2016, Volume 85, Issue 5, pp. 1411 - 1421
Summary Searching allows animals to find food, mates, shelter and other resources essential for survival and reproduction and is thus among the most important... 
optimal foraging theory | animal movement | Hidden Markov model | telemetry | Arctic | area‐concentrated search | Lévy flight | area-concentrated search | LEVY MOVEMENT PATHS | Levy flight | SAMPLING RATE | WOODLAND CARIBOU | FEMALE POLAR BEARS | CARIBOU RANGIFER-TARANDUS | ZOOLOGY | RANDOM-WALKS | TELEMETRY DATA | ECOLOGY | SPATIAL MEMORY | MARINE PREDATORS | Animals | Movement | Deer - physiology | Models, Biological | Feeding Behavior | Female | Ursidae - physiology | Polar bear | Analysis | Searches and seizures | Markov processes | Reindeer | Caribou | Grizzly bear | Biogeography | Ecology | Animal migration
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4. Full Text The topography of the environment alters the optimal search strategy for active particles
by Volpe, Giorgio and Volpe, Giovanni and Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten and Institutionen för fysik (GU) and Faculty of Sciences and Göteborgs universitet and Gothenburg University and Department of Physics (GU)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 10/2017, Volume 114, Issue 43, pp. 11350 - 11355
In environments with scarce resources, adopting the right search strategy can make the difference between succeeding and failing, even between life and death.... 
Complex topographies | Lévy walks | Optimal search strategy | Anomalous diffusion | Active particles | WALKS | SUCCESS | BEHAVIOR | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | active particles | optimal search strategy | LEVY FLIGHT | MOVEMENT PATTERNS | Levy walks | anomalous diffusion | WANDERING ALBATROSSES | complex topographies | SCALING LAWS | LIVING CELLS | Environmental aspects | Climatic changes | Topographical drawing | Physics - Biological Physics | Physical Sciences | Fysik
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5. Full Text Composite random search strategies based on non-directional sensory cues
by Nolting, Ben C and Hinkelman, Travis M and Brassil, Chad E and Tenhumberg, Brigitte
Ecological Complexity, ISSN 1476-945X, 06/2015, Volume 22, pp. 126 - 138
Many foraging animals find food using composite random search strategies, which consist of intensive and extensive search modes. Models of composite search can... 
Brownian motion | Ballistic motion | Area-restricted search | Composite search | Giving-up time | Lévy walk | Optimal foraging | WANDERING ALBATROSS | BEHAVIOR | JUVENILE PLAICE | LEVY WALKS | ADAPTIVE SEARCH | MODELS | Levy walk | OLFACTORY SEARCH | ECOLOGY | EFFICIENCY | ANIMAL MOVEMENTS | Searches and seizures | Analysis | Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution
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6. Full Text Animal movement, search strategies and behavioural ecology: a cross‐disciplinary way forward
by Giuggioli, Luca and Bartumeus, Frederic
Journal of Animal Ecology, ISSN 0021-8790, 07/2010, Volume 79, Issue 4, pp. 906 - 909
search strategies | anomalous diffusion | optimal foraging | movement ecology | probabilistic models | Movement ecology | Probabilistic models | Optimal foraging | Search strategies | Anomalous diffusion | DISTRIBUTIONS | ZOOLOGY | PATTERNS | ECOLOGY | REORIENTATION | PARADIGM | Behavior, Animal | Models, Theoretical | Ecology | Animals | Movement | Mathematical optimization | Analysis
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7. Full Text A novel two-swarm based PSO search strategy for optimal short-term hydro-thermal generation scheduling
by Cavazzini, G and Pavesi, G and Ardizzon, G
Energy Conversion and Management, ISSN 0196-8904, 05/2018, Volume 164, pp. 460 - 481
The optimal power generation of hydro-thermal systems to minimize total operating costs is one of the most important targets in short-term hydro-thermal... 
Constraints handling | Hydro-thermal generation | Short-term scheduling | Hydro-thermal system | PSO | Optimal management | LEARNING BASED OPTIMIZATION | ACCELERATION COEFFICIENTS | ENERGY & FUELS | PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION | MECHANICS | DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION ALGORITHM | THERMODYNAMICS | MUTATION | CONSTRAINTS | SYSTEMS | CODED GENETIC ALGORITHM | HYBRID | Algorithms | Electric power production | Mathematical optimization | Analysis
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8. Optimal search strategy for a three-dimensional randomly located target
by El-Hadidy, Mohamed Abd Allah and El-Bagoury, Abd Al-Aziz Hosni
International Journal of Operational Research, ISSN 1745-7645, 2017, Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 115 - 126
Nonlinear optimisation problem | Trivariate standard normal distribution | Optimal search path | Expected search time | Revolutions
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9. Full Text Search Strategies of a Pursuit-Diving Marine Bird and the Persistence of Prey Patches
by Gail K. Davoren and William A. Montevecchi and John T. Anderson
Ecological Monographs, ISSN 0012-9615, 8/2003, Volume 73, Issue 3, pp. 463 - 481
We explored foraging strategies used by marine animals to search for prey by examining the relative importance of information exchange and memory in a cold... 
Animal feeding behavior | Bird nesting | Predators | Aerial locomotion | Marine ecology | Breeding | Foraging | Birds | Sea birds | Wildlife habitats | information center hypothesis | search | information exchange | memory | capelin | Common Murre | Mallotus villosus | local enhancement | scale | central place foraging | Uria aalge | hot spot | Central place foraging | Local enhancement | Hot spot | Memory | Information center hypothesis | Search | Scale | Information exchange | Capelin | INFORMATION-CENTERS | LEAST AUKLETS | OPTIMAL FORAGING THEORY | COMMON MURRES | SCHOOLING FISH | RHINOCEROS AUKLETS | GUILLEMOTS URIA-AALGE | ECOLOGY | SPATIAL MEMORY | SEABIRD FEEDING FLOCKS | Food and nutrition | Research
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10. A new multi-objective particle swarm optimizer using empirical movement and diversified search strategies
by Shu-Kai S Fan and Ju-Ming Chang and Yu-Chiang Chuang
Engineering Optimization, ISSN 0305-215X, 06/2015, Volume 47, Issue 6, p. 750
  Most real-world optimization problems involve the optimization task of more than a single objective function and, therefore, require a great amount of... 
Pareto optimum | Optimization algorithms
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11. Full Text A knowledge-based search strategy for optimally structuring the terrain dependent rational function models
by Jannati, Mojtaba and Zoej, Mohammad Javad Valadan and Mokhtarzade, Mehdi
Remote Sensing, ISSN 2072-4292, 04/2017, Volume 9, Issue 4, p. 345
Identifying the optimal structure of terrain dependent Rational Function Models (RFMs) not only decreases the number of Ground Control Points (GCPs) required,... 
Knowledge-based | Optimal term selection | Terrain dependent | Rational Function Model | terrain dependent | REMOTE SENSING | SATELLITE IMAGERY | SENSOR ORIENTATION | optimal term selection | knowledge-based | OPTIMIZATION | Backbone | Knowledge base | Coefficients | Imagery | Optimization | Genetic algorithms | Ground based control | Global optimization | Algorithms | Efficiency | Searching | Terrain | Data sets | Strategy | Collinearity | Polynomials | Mathematical models | Ill-posed problems (mathematics)
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12. Full Text Emergence of an optimal search strategy from a simple random walk
by Sakiyama, Tomoko and Gunji, Yukio-Pegio
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, ISSN 1742-5689, 09/2013, Volume 10, Issue 86, pp. 20130486 - 20130486
In reports addressing animal foraging strategies, it has been stated that Levy-like algorithms represent an optimal search strategy in an unknown environment,... 
Optimal strategy | Super-diffusion | Power-law | Random walk | random walk | ANTS | SUCCESS | power-law | LEVY FLIGHT | BEHAVIOR | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | PATTERNS | super-diffusion | WANDERING ALBATROSSES | CONTEXT | optimal strategy | Algorithms | Animals | Models, Biological | Humans | Feeding Behavior - physiology | Walking - physiology
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13. Full Text Honeybees Use a Lévy Flight Search Strategy and Odour-Mediated Anemotaxis to Relocate Food Sources
by Andrew M. Reynolds and Jennifer L. Swain and Alan D. Smith and Andrew P. Martin and Juliet L. Osborne
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, ISSN 0340-5443, 11/2009, Volume 64, Issue 1, pp. 115 - 123
The availability of food resources changes over time and space, and foraging animals are constantly faced with choices about how to respond when a resource... 
Honey bees | Odors | Foraging | Radar | Insect colonies | Insect vectors | Bees | Search strategies | Insect behavior | Vehicular flight | Apis mellifera | Honeybees | Harmonic radar tracking | Optimal search strategies | Olfaction | BEHAVIOR | PATTERNS | BEES | ZOOLOGY | ORIENTATION | PLUMES | INSECTS | BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | ECOLOGY | Honeybee | Usage | Radar systems | Mathematical optimization | Food supply | Business relocation | Random walk theory | Flowers & plants | Sensory perception | Animal behavior | Smell
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14. A fast search strategy to optimise path founding in big data graph computing environments
by Qu, Wentian and Sun, Dawei
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, ISSN 1741-1084, 2017, Volume 13, Issue 2, pp. 139 - 143
In big data graph computing environments, the shortest path problem is very important and widely applied in various scenarios. But sometimes, in order to find... 
Heuristic function | Big data | Graph computing | Optimal path | Improved A-star algorithm | Estimated cost | Parameter estimation | Algorithms | Parameters | Data management | Computer simulation | Computation | Shortest-path problems | Big Data | Critical path | Optimization
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15. Full Text Dynamic bidding strategies in search-based advertising
by Dayanik, Savas and Parlar, Mahmut
Annals of Operations Research, ISSN 0254-5330, 12/2013, Volume 211, Issue 1, pp. 103 - 136
Search-based advertising allows the advertisers to run special campaigns targeted to different groups of potential consumers at low costs. Google, Yahoo and... 
Searched-based advertising | Dynamic programming | Optimal control | Dynamic bidding | OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | Studies | Operations research | Online advertising | Policies | Revenues | Algorithms | Dyn