The principles of collective animal behaviour

By David J. T. Sumpter. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Sociology and Political Science

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A Study of AI Population Dynamics with Million-agent Reinforcement Learning (2017, background): “In multiple disciplines of natural sciences spanning from zoology, psycholog, to economy [11, 17, 45], one of the most fundamental thus important collective behaviors to study is: grouping – a population of units aggregate together for collective decision-making.”
A rule-of-thumb based on social affiliation explains collective movements in desert baboons (2011, background): “In sum, our finding, that local individual rules are adequate to generate complex collective behaviour at the group level, mirrors both the ideas of self-organization in biological systems (Sumpter 2006; Sumpter et al. 2008) and the heuristic decision-making perspective taken by some cognitive psych”
Human Interaction With Robot Swarms: A Survey (2016, background): “On a more general note, in [29] Sumpter identifies several principles that describe biological systems that exhibit collective behavior.”
Sex and social networking: the influence of male presence on social structure of female shark groups (2010, background): “Conspecific interaction is therefore often characterized by consistent interindividual distances or a synchronization of activity (Krause and Ruxton 2002; Sumpter 2006).”
All together now: behavioural synchrony in baboons. (2009, background): “For example, a highly aligned group of animals moving through their environment can be said to have momentarily synchronized their direction of movement (Sumpter 2006).”
An Empirical Study of AI Population Dynamics with Million-agent Reinforcement Learning (2017, background): “In multiple disciplines of natural sciences spanning from zoology, psycholog, to economy (Sumpter 2006; Dunbar 2016; Guillen 2000), one of the most fundamental thus important collective behaviors to study is: grouping – a population of units aggregate together for collective decision-making.”
Adopting a spatially explicit perspective to study the mysterious fairy circles of Namibia (2015, positive): “Termites and ants also have the ability to create self-organized patterns in the search of food resources (Sumpter 2006), but detailed spatial pattern analysis using functional summary statistics applied to cleared circles of 8”
Selective mimetism at departure in collective movements of Macaca tonkeana: an experimental and theoretical approach (2009, background): “Scientists have long considered rationality to be the best explanation of how an individual behaves faced with its conspecifics (Sumpter 2006).”
Self-organized structures in a superorganism: do ants "behave" like molecules? (2006, background): “Although the biological and social attributes deeply differ from one of these species to another, similar behaviour rules, coupled with self-organizing processes seem to have been selected as robust and well-adapted means for efficient collective problem-solving [26,116].”
The Walking Behaviour of Pedestrian Social Groups and Its Impact on Crowd Dynamics (2010, background): “The study of human crowd dynamics has recently found great interest in many research fields [1,2,3,4,5].”
Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids (2012, background): “, flocks of birds (12) or schools of fish (13, 14)] and present important biological model systems to study nonequilibrium phases and their transitions (15–17).”
A collective navigation hypothesis for homeward migration in anadromous salmonids (2016, background): “…mounting evidence demonstrates that simple interactions among individuals with relative unsophisticated behaviour may produce complex outcomes that are adaptive at the group level (Bonabeau et al. 1999b; Seeley and Buhrman 1999; Franks et al. 2002; Camazine 2003; Sumpter 2006; Berdahl et al. 2013).”
Social behaviour in sharks and rays: analysis, patterns and implications for conservation (2012, background): “Such patterns of grouping can be maintained by each individual obeying a few simple, localized rules of attraction orientation and repulsion (Couzin et al. 2002; Sumpter 2006).”
Where Next? Group Coordination and Collective Decision Making by Primates (2011, background): “This has also been termed social facilitation (Tolman 1964; Zajonc 1965) or response facilitation (Byrne 1994), and is described in a variety of social species from ants to sheep (Camazine et al. 2003; Couzin and Krause 2003; Detrain and Deneubourg 2006; Gautrais et al. 2007; Sumpter 2006).”