Emerging collective behaviors of animal groups

Jinhu Lü, Jing Liu, I. D. Couzin, Simon Asher Levin

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23 Scopus citations

Abstract

Many animal groups routinely make consensus decisions jointly with all group members. This paper builds a novel model merging the locally neighboring reciprocal action and alignment together to investigate the mechanisms of consensus decision-making and its robustness. Our model reveals that the shapes of the coherent .ocks are limited in a common narrow interval for different group sizes and information structures. Moreover, the coherent groups display a surprising degree of tolerance against errors, however, they simultaneously show an extremely fragile to attacks. Our model and approach discover some novel phenomena and also reveal some underlying mechanisms of the consensus decision-making and its robustness in biological systems.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA'08
Pages1060-1065
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 25 2008
Event7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA'08 - Chongqing, China
Duration: Jun 25 2008Jun 27 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation (WCICA)

Other

Other7th World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA'08
Country/TerritoryChina
CityChongqing
Period6/25/086/27/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Software
  • Computer Science Applications

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