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 …

Besides focusing on the adaptive significance of collective movements, it is crucial to study
the mechanisms and dynamics of decision-making processes at the individual level …

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

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 …

Migration of organisms (or cells) is typically an adaptive response to spatiotemporal
variation in resources that requires individuals to detect and respond to long-range and …

Through combining theoretical models and empirical data, complexity science has
increased our understanding of social behavior of animals, in particular of social insects …

Collective animal behaviour has attracted much attention recently, but cause-and-effect
within interaction sequences has often been difficult to establish. To tackle this problem, we …

Nature is rich with many different examples of the cohesive motion of animals. Previous
attempts to model collective motion have primarily focused on group behaviours of identical …

Nutrient acquisition is a major context for ecological interactions among species but
ecologists and nutritionists have developed theory in isolation from each other …

Many real world industrial applications involve the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP),
which is a problem that finds a Hamiltonian path with minimum cost. Examples of problems …