The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Movement in animal groups is highly varied and ranges from seemingly disordered motion
in swarms to coordinated aligned motion in flocks and schools. These social interactions are …

In animal societies as well as in human crowds, many observed collective behaviours result
from self-organized processes based on local interactions among individuals. However …

We present a comprehensive study of Vicsek-style self-propelled particle models in two and
three space dimensions. The onset of collective motion in such stochastic models with only …

We introduce a model for self-organized dynamics which, we argue, addresses several
drawbacks of the celebrated Cucker-Smale (CS) model. The proposed model does not only …

The amygdala plays key roles in emotion and social cognition, but how this translates to face-
to-face interactions involving real people remains unknown. We found that an individual with …

Social organisms form striking aggregation patterns, displaying cohesion, polarization, and
collective intelligence. Determining how they do so in nature is challenging; a plethora of …

Electronic media have unlocked a hitherto largely untapped potential for swarm intelligence
(SI; generally, the realisation that group living can facilitate solving cognitive problems that …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

We review the state-of-the-art in the modelling of the aggregation and collective behavior of
interacting agents of similar size and body type, typically called swarming. Starting with …