title: Random walk with memory enhancement and decay.
abstract: A model of random walk with memory enhancement and decay was presented on the basis of the characteristics of the biological intelligent walks. In this model, the movement of the walker is determined by the difference between the remaining information at the jumping-out site and jumping-in site. The amount of the memory information s(i)(t) at a site i is enhanced with the increment of visiting times to that site, and decays with time t by the rate e(-beta(t)), where beta is the memory decay exponent. When beta=0, there exists a transition from Brownian motion (BM) to the compact growth of walking trajectory with the density of information energy u increasing. But for beta>0, this transition does not appear and the walk with memory enhancement and decay can be considered as the BM of the mass center of the cluster composed of remembered sites in the late stage.
authors: Department of Physics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
authors: Zhi-Jie
authors: ZJ
authors: Tan
authors: Xian-Wu
authors: XW
authors: Zou
authors: Sheng-You
authors: SY
authors: Huang
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Zhang
authors: Zhun-Zhi
authors: ZZ
authors: Jin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000502:physiology; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D003198:Computer Simulation; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology; D012371:Robotics; D013997:Time Factors