Throughout the last two decades, a type of trajectories has been found to be almost ubiquitous in biological searches: the Lévy Patterns. Such patterns are fractal, with searches happening in self-similar clusters. Their hallmark is that their step-lengths are distributed in a power-law with some exponent μ ∈ (1, 3). This discovery lead to two intriguing questions: first, do these patterns emerge from an internal mechanism of the searcher, or from the interaction with the environment? Second, and independently of the previous question: what do these searchers have in common? When can we expect to see a Lévy Pattern of exponent μ? And how much does the knowledge of μ inform on the biological situation? This dissertation is an attempt at shed...
In a world that is changing rapidly due to anthropogenic disturbances, an understanding of animal be...
In environments with scarce resources, adopting the right search strategy can make the difference be...
We describe a novel representation of a discrete correlated random walk as the transition matrix of ...
Throughout the last two decades, a type of trajectories has been found to be almost ubiquitous in bi...
International audienceLévy walks are random walk processes whose step lengths follow a long-tailed p...
long résumé en français, texte principal en anglais.This thesis deals with intermittent target searc...
A considerable amount of research has claimed that animals ’ foraging behaviors display movement len...
This thesis deals with the optimization of mean search time for intermittent processes. This thesis ...
International audienceIn nature, search processes that use randomly oriented steps of different leng...
While evidence for optimal random search patterns, known as Lévy walks, in empirical movement data i...
A considerable amount of research has claimed that animals' foraging behaviors display movement leng...
In an intermittent random search, in which slow motion to detect the target is discretely separated ...
We review the general search problem of how to find randomly located objects that can only be detect...
International audienceMotivated by the \emph{Lévy foraging hypothesis} -- the premise that various a...
We describe a novel representation of a discrete correlated random walk as the transition matrix of ...
In a world that is changing rapidly due to anthropogenic disturbances, an understanding of animal be...
In environments with scarce resources, adopting the right search strategy can make the difference be...
We describe a novel representation of a discrete correlated random walk as the transition matrix of ...
Throughout the last two decades, a type of trajectories has been found to be almost ubiquitous in bi...
International audienceLévy walks are random walk processes whose step lengths follow a long-tailed p...
long résumé en français, texte principal en anglais.This thesis deals with intermittent target searc...
A considerable amount of research has claimed that animals ’ foraging behaviors display movement len...
This thesis deals with the optimization of mean search time for intermittent processes. This thesis ...
International audienceIn nature, search processes that use randomly oriented steps of different leng...
While evidence for optimal random search patterns, known as Lévy walks, in empirical movement data i...
A considerable amount of research has claimed that animals' foraging behaviors display movement leng...
In an intermittent random search, in which slow motion to detect the target is discretely separated ...
We review the general search problem of how to find randomly located objects that can only be detect...
International audienceMotivated by the \emph{Lévy foraging hypothesis} -- the premise that various a...
We describe a novel representation of a discrete correlated random walk as the transition matrix of ...
In a world that is changing rapidly due to anthropogenic disturbances, an understanding of animal be...
In environments with scarce resources, adopting the right search strategy can make the difference be...
We describe a novel representation of a discrete correlated random walk as the transition matrix of ...