Animals often travel in groups, and their navigational decisions can be influenced by social
interactions. Both theory and empirical observations suggest that such collective navigation …

Most social insect species are able to regulate the temperature within their nests. In this
review, we examine the variety of mechanisms that social insect species have evolved to …

This work deals with the topic of information processing over graphs. The presentation is
largely self-contained and covers results that relate to the analysis and design of multi-agent …

Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How
and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns …

Nature provides splendid examples of real-time learning and adaptation behavior that
emerges from highly localized interactions among agents of limited capabilities. For …

This article sets out the rudiments of a theory for analyzing and creating architectures
appropriate to the control of formations of autonomous vehicles. The theory rests on ideas of …

The roots of swarm intelligence are deeply embedded in the biological study of self-
organized behaviors in social insects. From the routing of traffic in telecommunication …

The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research.
But in the last 15 years, teams in China, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand began to shift focus …

Unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs) are finding use in military operations and starting to
find use in civilian operations. UAVs often fly in formation, meaning that the distances …

The choice of a new nest site is ecologically critical for an insect colony. In swarm-founding
social insects, or those that move as colonies from one site to another, this choice is one of …