Determining interaction rules in animal swarms

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1106-1111

  Eriksson, Anders ^a   Nilsson Jacobi, Martin ^b   Nyström, Johan ^b   Tunstrøm, Kolbjørn ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

behavioral rules; force matching; reverse engineering; swarming

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOVEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; SWARMING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77955915573     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq118     Document Type: Article

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