Fast and Robust Flocking of Protesters on Street Networks
Multiagent Systems
2025-12-16 v4 Social and Information Networks
Abstract
We present a simple model of protesters scattered throughout a city who want to gather into large and mobile groups. This model relies on random walkers on a street network that follow tactics built from a set of basic rules. Our goal is to identify the most important rules for fast and robust flocking of walkers. We explore a wide set of tactics and show the central importance of a specific rule based on alignment. Other rules alone perform poorly, but our experiments show that combining alignment with them enhances flocking, and that obtained groups are then remarkably robust.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2406.01101,
title = {Fast and Robust Flocking of Protesters on Street Networks},
author = {Guillaume Moinard and Matthieu Latapy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01101},
year = {2025}
}