Background: Many animals are known to have improved navigational efficiency when moving together as a social group. One potential mechanism for social group navigation is known as the ‘many wrongs principle’, where information from many inaccurate compasses is pooled across the group. In order to understand how animal groups may use the many wrongs principle to navigate, it is important to cons...

One-month-old, inexperienced homing pigeons, prior to any opportunity to learn a navigational map, were subjected to either right or left unilateral ablation of the hippocampal formation (HF). These pigeons were then held together with a group of age-matched control birds in an outdoor aviary, where they were kept for about 3 months with the opportunity to learn a navigational map. When subsequ...

This article introduces WUMA – Miner, an agent-based detailed design pattern for mining users with similar navigational behavior. WUMA Miner is part of a system of patterns for the design of multi-agent Web recommender systems based on Usage Mining techniques. An idiom for the development of agents in the JADE development environment, used on the implementation example of the WUMA – Miner patte...

Central place foragers are faced with the challenge to learn the position of their nest entrance in its surroundings, in order to find their way back home every time they go out to search for food. To acquire navigational information at the beginning of their foraging career, Cataglyphis noda performs learning walks during the transition from interior worker to forager. These small loops around...

Prefetching is an effective method for minimizing the number of round-trips between the client and the server in database management systems. In this paper; we propose new notions of the typelevel access locality and the type-level access pattern. We also formally define the notions of capturing and prefetching to help understand the underlying mechanisms. We then develop an efJicient prefetchi...