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We derive from first principles a three-dimensional theory of self-propelled particle swarming in a viscous fluid environment. Our model predicts emergent collective behavior that depends critically on fluid opacity, mechanism of…

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Living many-body systems often exhibit scale-free collective behavior reminiscent of thermal critical phenomena. But their mutual interactions are inevitably retarded due to information processing and delayed actuation. We numerically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-16 Viktor Holubec , Daniel Geiss , Sarah A. M. Loos , Klaus Kroy , Frank Cichos

A system of stochastic differential equations for the velocity and density of a classical self-gravitating matter is investigated by means of the field theoretic renormalization group. The existence of two types of large-scale scaling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. V. Antonov

Natural ecosystems are characterized by striking diversity of form and functions and yet exhibit deep symmetries emerging across scales of space, time and organizational complexity. Species-area relationships and species-abundance…

Interacting individuals in complex systems often give rise to coherent motion exhibiting coordinated global structures. Such phenomena are ubiquitously observed in nature, from cell migration, bacterial swarms, animal and insect groups, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Dongjo Kim , Jeongsu Lee , Ho-Young Kim

Swarming behavior, where coherent motion emerges from the interactions of many mobile agents, is ubiquitous in physics and biology. Moreover, there are many efforts to replicate swarming dynamics in mobile robotic systems which take…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-04 Ira B. Schwartz , Victoria Edwards , Jason Hindes

We provide a detailed Dynamic Renormalization Group study for a class of stochastic equations that describe non-conserved interface growth mediated by non-local interactions. We consider explicitly both the morphologically stable case, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-28 Matteo Nicoli , Rodolfo Cuerno , Mario Castro

We present a model of soft active particles that leads to a rich array of collective behavior found also in dense biological swarms of bacteria and other unicellular organisms. Our model uses only local interactions, such as Vicsek-type…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-13 Ruben van Drongelen , Anshuman Pal , Carl P. Goodrich , Timon Idema

We investigate flow dynamics in rivers characterized by basin areas and daily mean discharge spanning different orders of magnitude. We show that the delayed increments evaluated at time scales ranging from days to months can be opportunely…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-20 M. De Domenico , V. Latora

In swarm robotics, just as for an animal swarm in Nature, one of the aims is to reach and maintain a desired configuration. One of the possibilities for the team, to reach this aim, is to see what its neighbours are doing. This approach…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-04-08 R. dell'Erba

In order to overcome difficult dynamic optimization and environment extrema tracking problems, We propose a Self-Regulated Swarm (SRS) algorithm which hybridizes the advantageous characteristics of Swarm Intelligence as the emergence of a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vitorino Ramos , Carlos Fernandes , Agostinho C. Rosa

We found that models of evolving random networks exhibit dynamic scaling similar to scaling of growing surfaces. It is demonstrated by numerical simulations of two variants of the model in which nodes are added as well as removed [Phys.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Miroslav Kotrla , Frantisek Slanina , Jakub Steiner

We show how the interplay of non-linear dynamics, self-gravity, and fluctuations leads to self-affine behavior of matter density correlations quite generically, i.e., with a power-law exponent whose value does not depend in a very direct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Dominguez , D. Hochberg , J. M. Martin-Garcia , J. Perez-Mercader , L. S. Schulman

We study the universal behavior of a class of active colloids whose design is inspired by the collective dynamics of natural systems like schools of fish and flocks of birds. These colloids, with off-center repulsive interaction sites,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-10 Amir Nourhani

Despite their diverse origin, networks of large real-world systems reveal a number of common properties including small-world phenomena, scale-free degree distributions and modularity. Recently, network self-similarity as a natural outcome…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-02-09 Neli Blagus , Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Sensory mechanisms in biology, from cells to humans, have the property of adaptivity, whereby the response produced by the sensor is adapted to the overall amplitude of the signal; reducing the sensitivity in the presence of strong…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Dan Gorbonos , Nir S. Gov

We propose an approach of open-ended evolution via the simulation of swarm dynamics. In nature, swarms possess remarkable properties, which allow many organisms, from swarming bacteria to ants and flocking birds, to form higher-order…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Olaf Witkowski , Takashi Ikegami

Swarming phenomena are ubiquitous in various physical, biological, and social systems, where simple local interactions between individual units lead to complex global patterns. A common feature of diverse swarming phenomena is that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-05 Yang Tian , Yunhui Xu , Pei Sun

Classical swarm models, exemplified by the Cucker--Smale framework, provide foundational insights into collective alignment but exhibit fundamental limitations in capturing the adaptive, heterogeneous behaviours intrinsic to living systems.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-09-08 Rene Fabregas , Jie Liao , Nisrine Outada

We establish new scaling properties for the universality class of Model C, which describes relaxational critical dynamics of a nonconserved order parameter coupled to a conserved scalar density. We find an anomalous diffusion phase, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-05 David Mesterházy , Jan H. Stockemer , Leticia F. Palhares , Jürgen Berges