“…Equation 24calculates the bacterium health at each displacement Θ i (j, k, l), which represents the cost function of the optimization problem, including the portion J cc from the agglomeration step 1, k, l)). (24) The second step, called agglomeration, is the tendency of the bacteria to organize and converge toward the same spot. The mathematical function for agglomeration, considering cell-cell signaling by attraction and repulsion, is defined as…”