Self-Organization in Biological Systems

By Scott Camazine, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Nigel R. Franks, J. Sneyd, Guy Theraulaz. Princeton studies in complexity, 2001

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From the Publisher: "Broad in scope, thorough yet accessible, this book is a self-contained introduction to self-organization and complexity in biology - a field of study at the forefront of life sciences research."--BOOK JACKET.

Subfields: Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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A modelling framework for understanding social insect foraging (2003, background): “Many of the impressive examples of collective foraging seen in insect societies are self-organised, in that complex global patterns emerge from purely localised cues and signals among colony members (Bonabeau et al. 1997; Camazine et al. 2001; Seeley 1995).”
Flocking and asymptotic velocity of the Cucker–Smale model with processing delay (2014, background): “[2]), and the flight guidance in honeybee swarms (Fetecau and Guo [6]).”
Collective exploration and area marking in the ant Lasius niger (2002, background): “In such a self-organised society ( Camazine et al., 2001 ), group size and more specifically the number of scouts in the vicinity of discovered food sites rules the dynamics of recruitment and is crucial for the rapid emergence of foraging choices (Beckers et al., 1989; Jaffe and Deneubourg, 1992; G”
Decision making by small and large house-hunting ant colonies: one size fits all (2006, background): “Social insect colonies are models for studies of collective intelligence (Franks 1989) and collective decision making (Seeley 1995; Camazine et al. 2001; Couzin et al. 2005).”
Relapse prevention for alcohol and drug problems: that was Zen, this is Tao. (2004, background): “The following is a definition of self-organization provided by Camazine and colleagues (2003): “Self-organization is a process in which patterns at the global level of a system emerge solely from numerous interactions among the lower-level components of the system.”
Double milling in self-propelled swarms from kinetic theory (2009, background): “Introduction. ‐ Viewed as a collective, interacting individuals often flow into spectacular coherent patterns [ 1 ].”
Establishment of new wintering areas in herring co-occurs with peaks in the `first time/repeat spawner' ratio (2010, background): “Our results illustrate that there is need for a unification of these disciplines with the field of complex adaptive systems (Camazine et al. 2001) if we are to understand the spatial ecology of migratory fish stocks.”
Swarm intelligence in humans: diversity can trump ability (2011, background): “…insects where the contrast between the abilities of single individuals and the colony is particularly striking (Seeley 1995; Bonabeau et al. 1999; Camazine et al. 2001; Couzin 2009), but there are also case studies from other taxonomic groups including fish (Sumpter et al. 2008; Ward et al.…”
Presidential Address to the Mineralogical Society of America, Salt Lake City, October 18, 2005: Mineral surfaces and the prebiotic selection and organization of biomolecules (2006, background): “…dunes and ripples (Bagnold 1941, 1988; Hansen et al. 2001), the formation of galactic spiral structures (Bertin 1980; Carlberg and Freedman 1985), and the behavior of myriad biological systems such as slime mold, ant colonies, and the conscious brain (Solé and Goodwin 2000; Camazine et al. 2001).”
Sparse stabilization and optimal control of the Cucker-Smale model (2013, positive): “One of the leading concepts behind the modeling of multiagent interaction in the past few years has been self-organization [5, 43, 44, 45, 61], which, from a mathematical point of view, can be described as the formation of patterns, to which the systems tend naturally to be attracted.”