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Starvation Dynamics of a Greedy Forager
U. Bhat, S. Redner, O. Benichou
We investigate the dynamics of a greedy forager that moves by random walking in an environment where each site initially contains one unit of food. Upon encountering a food-contain…
Does Greed Help a Forager Survive?
U. Bhat, S. Redner, O. Benichou
We investigate the role of greed on the lifetime of a random-walking forager on an initially resource-rich lattice. Whenever the forager lands on a food-containing site, all the fo…
Random Search with Memory in Patchy Media: Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoff
M. Chupeau, O. Benichou, S. Redner
How to best exploit patchy resources? This long-standing question belongs to the extensively studied class of explore/exploit problems that arise in a wide range of situations, fro…
Universality classes of foraging with resource renewal
M. Chupeau, O. Bénichou, S. Redner
We determine the impact of resource renewal on the lifetime of a forager that depletes its environment and starves if it wanders too long without eating. In the framework of the mi…