The remarkable collective action of organisms such as swarming ants, schooling fish and
flocking birds has long captivated the attention of artists, naturalists, philosophers and …

Information is a crucial currency for animals from both a behavioural and evolutionary
perspective. Adaptive behaviour relies upon accurate estimation of relevant ecological …

Within the context of multiple mobile, and networked robot systems, this chapter explores the
current state of the art. After a brief introduction, we first examine architectures for multirobot …

To effectively perform collective monitoring of dynamic environments, a robot swarm needs
to adapt to changes by processing the latest information and discarding outdated beliefs. We …

The capacity for groups to exhibit collective intelligence is an often-cited advantage of group
living. Previous studies have shown that social organisms frequently benefit from pooling …

For animals that forage or travel in groups, making movement decisions often depends on
social interactions among group members,. However, in many cases, few individuals have …

Throughout their lives animals must complete many tasks, including finding food, avoiding
predators, attracting mates, and navigating through a complex and dynamic environment …

The traditional emphasis when measuring performance in animal cognition has been
overwhelmingly on accuracy, independent of decision time. However, more recently, it has …

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 …

Moving animal groups display remarkable feats of coordination. This coordination is largely
achieved when individuals adjust their movement in response to their neighbours' …