Social grouping is omnipresent in the animal kingdom. Considerable research has focused
on understanding how animal groups form and function, including how collective behaviour …

We review theoretical models of individual motility as well as collective dynamics and
pattern formation of active particles. We focus on simple models of active dynamics with a …

Many fish species gather by the thousands and swim in harmony with seemingly no effort.
Large schools display a range of impressive collective behaviors, from simple shoaling to …

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

Choosing among spatially distributed options is a central challenge for animals, from
deciding among alternative potential food sources or refuges to choosing with whom to …

This paper proposes a new meta-heuristic algorithm called Pathfinder Algorithm (PFA) to
solve optimization problems with different structure. This method is inspired by collective …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Recent advances in technology are delivering robots of reduced size and cost. A natural
outgrowth of these advances are systems comprised of large numbers of robots that …