Interrelationships between Prey and Predators and How Predators Choose Their Prey to Maximize Their Utility Functions
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Mathematics
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1687-0042,1110-757X
DOI: 10.1155/2021/6619500