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Search problems in predator-prey interactions

This area covers applications of Search Game theory to animal interactions. In particular, spatial search is important in predator-prey interactions when the distance between individuals is too great for pursuit-evasion models to apply, due to lack of perfect information about each other's location. In certain cases the individuals may want to meet, and in this case rendezvous theory is applied. We are particularly interested in cases where specific ecological assumptions motivate assumptions about the model and lead to new questions for the theorists. Also, applications of theory to specific species would be of interest.

Invited speakers

Shmuel Gal: Repeated hide-seek and pursuit-evasion games.

Robbert Fokkink: Ambush frequency should decrease over time during optimal predator search for prey.

Organiser

Steve Alpern (U Warwick, UK).

Updated May 27, 2015, by Minus