Anomalous Dynamics, Search Strategies and the Underpinnings of Predictive Analytics
Abstract
There is a need to deliver an innovative new synthesis of knowledge in the field of anomalous dynamics and search strategies. This extends towards modeling movement and search in real and abstract space. Models of movement and search are in widespread use today including virtual worlds for realistic battlefield simulators and the location of IEDs by robots. The relevance to the ONR is via the link between optimal search in ecology and the more general mathematics of optimal searching. ONR has a long standing involvement in this area of “search research” and was co-proposer of the Lévy walk model for anomalous diffusion. The key outcomes of the work are expected to be 3 papers: i) a synthesis paper led by NWW on the role played by, and consequences of, different types of time dependence in Lévy-like anomalous diffusion models; ii) a review or position paper on the current status of the LFH, written with ASG convenors RK, Dr. Jon Pitchford, and others as appropriate; and iii) a paper with postgraduate student George Blackburn, RK and others on convex hull diagnostics.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Feb 03, 2017
- Source ID
- N62909151N143
Entities
People
- Nicholas W Watkins
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Warwick