In recent years, the concept of self-organization has been used to understand collective
behaviour of animals. The central tenet of self-organization is that simple repeated …

Individual animals routinely face decisions that are crucial to their fitness. In social species,
however, many of these decisions need to be made jointly with other group members …

My major motivation to think about swarm robotics is the question of how probabilistic local
actions of small robots sum up to rational global patterns shown by the swarm. For the …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

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 …

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 …

According to Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan [1651; 2008 (Touchstone, New York), English
Ed],“the life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” and it would need powerful …

Animal groups are said to make consensus decisions when group members come to agree
on the same option. Consensus decisions are taxonomically widespread and potentially …

Sensor networks are gaining a central role in the research community. This paper addresses
some of the issues arising from the use of sensor networks in control applications. Classical …

Aggregation is widespread in invertebrate societies and can appear in response to
environmental heterogeneities or by attraction between individuals. We performed …