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infotaxis

infotaxis noun: any searching strategy in which there is sparse information, especially a strategy used by biological organisms to zigzag towards the source of an odour based on sporadic clues.

Noun

infotaxis (uncountable)

  1. Any searching strategy in which there is sparse information, especially a strategy used by biological organisms to zigzag towards the source of an odour based on sporadic clues.
    • 2006–7, Massimo Vergassola et al., "‘Infotaxis’ as a strategy for searching without gradients", in Nature, volume 445, pages 406–409 (2007 January 25)
    • Some literatures investigated the odor source localization by robots mimicking biologic behaviors, such as chemotaxis [1] and anemotaxis [2], or custom algorithms like fluxotaxis [3] and infotaxis [4]. The multi-robot system has more advantages than single robot in odor source localization. First...2008, Caihua Xiong, Honghai Liu, Yongan Huang, Youlun Xiong (editors), Intelligent Robotics and Applications: First International Conference ICIRA 2008, page 1206

Origin of infotaxis

From info- + taxis.

Questions about infotaxis

What does infotaxis mean?
Infotaxis means any searching strategy in which there is sparse information, especially a strategy used by biological organisms to zigzag towards the source of an odour based on sporadic clues.
What part of speech is infotaxis?
Infotaxis is a noun.

Words near infotaxis in the dictionary

  1. infotainers
  2. infotaining
  3. infotainment
  4. infotainments
  5. infotains
  6. infotaxis
  7. infotech
  8. infotechnological
  9. infotechnologies
  10. infotechnology
  11. infotext

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