The manner in which an animal moves throughout and utilizes the space available to it depends on the dispersal, availability, and level of competition for resources the animal requires for its biological functioning. We tested groups of broilers (Gallus gallus domesticus) in 3 experimental group sizes of 5, 10, and 20 individuals per group under 3 resource distribution patterns. Groups were tes...

We consider a class of biologically motivated stochastic processes in which a unicellular organism divides its resources (volume or damaged proteins, in particular) symmetrically or asymmetrically between its progeny. Assuming the final amount of the resource is controlled by a growth policy and subject to additive and multiplicative noise, we derive the recursive integral equation describing t...

If a group of foragers distributes among resource patches according to the ideal free distribution, the relative number of foragers in each patch should match the relative amount of resource obtained there, unless deviations arise from factors such as incomplete information or interforager interference. In analogy to individual choice, such effects may produce undermatching—group distribution f...

High Performance Computing (HPC) clouds need to be efficiently shared between selfish tenants having applications with different resource requirements and Service Level Objectives (SLOs). The main difficulty relies on providing concurrent resource access to such tenants while maximizing the resource utilization. To overcome this challenge, we propose Merkat, a market-based SLO-driven cloud plat...

The basic idea of a load balancing system is to transfer partial of system workload from busy nodes to some idle nodes. The target resource selection for task migration is a key factor in the load balance strategy. As grid is dynamic in nature, resources may join or leave the grid at any instance of time. It’s inefficient to select a target resource that often leaves the grid and hence the task...

The size distribution of the language populations in New Guinea, which represent over 15% of the world's languages, is analysed using models analogous to the resource division models of species abundance distribution in ecological communities. A model distribution of resource segments reflecting population size is created by repeated selection of an existing resource segment and its division in...

A curtailable and flexible resource activation framework for solving distribution network (DN) voltage thermal congestions is used to quantify three important aspects with respect modelling low networks. This utilizes the states in absence of such or resources as input calculating flexibility signal (FAS). The FAS has some similarities optimal power flow duals associated balance constraint. due...