Collective behavior provides a framework for understanding how the actions and properties
of groups emerge from the way individuals generate and share information. In humans …

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 …

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 …

Collective movement of epithelial cells drives essential multicellular organization during
various fundamental physiological processes encompassing embryonic morphogenesis …

From bird flocks to fish schools, animal groups often seem to react to environmental
perturbations as if of one mind. Most studies in collective animal behavior have aimed to …

The spontaneous emergence of pattern formation is ubiquitous in nature, often arising as a
collective phenomenon from interactions among a large number of individual constituents or …

We present the first decentralized multi-copter flock that performs stable autonomous
outdoor flight with up to 10 flying agents. By decentralized and autonomous we mean that all …

This book explains the quantitative reasoning required by the fractional calculus applied to
complex physical, social, and biological phenomena. Fractional calculus is inextricably …

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 …