Emergent behavior in flocks

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 852-862

  Cucker, Felipe ^a   Smale, Steve ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus reaching problem; Emergence; Flocking

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETERIZATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

CONCENSUS REACHING PROBLEM; RATE OF DECAY;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 34249106048     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2007.895842     Document Type: Article

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