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Hierarchical networks are prevalent in nature and society, corresponding to groups of actors - animals, humans or even robots - organised according to a pyramidal structure with decision makers at the top and followers at the bottom. While…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-01-25 Bálint J. Tóth , Gergely Palla , Enys Mones , Gergő Havadi , Nóra Páll , Péter Pollner , Tamás Vicsek

Hierarchy significantly shapes interactions in social structures by organizing individuals or groups based on status, power, or privilege. This study investigates how hierarchy affects structural balance as temperature variations, which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-25 Amir Kargaran , Houman Jafari , G. Reza Jafari

Recently there has been an increasing interest in studying dynamical processes on networks exhibiting higher-order structures, such as simplicial complexes, where the dynamics acts above and beyond dyadic interactions. Using simulations or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-25 István Z. Kiss , Iacopo Iacopini , Péter L. Simon , Nicos Georgiou

The Vicsek model is a very popular individual based model which describes collective behavior among animal societies. A macroscopic version of the Vicsek model has been derived from a large scale limit of this individual based model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-16 Sebastien Motsch , Laurent Navoret

We develop a mathematical model to describe the persistence of rule-breaking behaviors in societies, such as traffic violations, disregard for legal restrictions and other forms of noncompliance. Using a replicator-type dynamics with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-27 Nuno Crokidakis

Human social hierarchy has the unique characteristic of existing in two forms. Firstly, as an informal hierarchy where leaders and followers are implicitly defined by their personal characteristics, and secondly, as an institutional…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-04 Cedric Perret , Emma Hart , Simon T. Powers

The nature of the phase transition in a system of self-propelling particles has been extensively studied during the last few decades. A theoretical model was proposed by T. Vicsek, {\it et. al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 75}, 1226 (1995)] with…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-09-21 P. The Nguyen , Sang-Hee Lee , V. Thanh Ngo

In this work we extend the model of Bonabeau et al. in the case of scale-free networks. A sharp transition is observed from an egalitarian to an hierarchical society, with a very low population density threshold. The exact threshold value…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Lazaros K. Gallos

Models of ordering dynamics allow to understand natural systems in which an initially disordered population homogenizes some traits via local interactions. The simplest of these models, with wide applications ranging from evolutionary to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-12 Andrea Baronchelli , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras

This work focuses on clustering populations with a hierarchical dependency structure that can be described by a tree. A particular example that is the focus of our work is the phylogenetic tree, with nodes often representing biological…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-28 Hanxi Sun , Heejung Shim , Vinayak Rao

Noise and spatial degrees of freedom characterize most ecosystems. Some aspects of their influence on the coevolution of populations with cyclic interspecies competition have been demonstrated in recent experiments [e.g. B. Kerr et al.,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2007-12-08 Tobias Reichenbach , Mauro Mobilia , Erwin Frey

The Vicsek model (Vicsek et al. 1995) is a very popular minimalist model to study active matter with a number of applications to biological systems at different length scales. With its off-lattice implementation and periodic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-07 Andreas Kuhn , Sabine C. Fischer

We have recorded the swarming-like collective migration of a large number of keratocytes (tissue cells obtained from the scales of goldfish) using long-term videomicroscopy. By increasing the overall density of the migrating cells, we have…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Balint Szabo , Gergely J. Szollosi , Balazs Gonci , Zsofi Juranyi , David Selmeczi , Tamas Vicsek

In this paper we are concerned with multiscale modeling, control, and simulation of self-organizing agents leaving an unknown area under limited visibility, with special emphasis on crowds. We first introduce a new microscopic model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Giacomo Albi , Mattia Bongini , Emiliano Cristiani , Dante Kalise

We show that low density homogeneous phases of self propelled hard disks exhibit a transition from isotropic to polar collective motion, albeit of a qualitatively distinct class from the Vicsek one. In the absence of noise, an abrupt…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-19 Khanh-Dang Nguyen Thu Lam , Michael Schindler , Olivier Dauchot

The phenomenon of group motion is common in nature, ranging from the schools of fish, birds and insects, to avalanches, landslides and sand drift. If we treat objects as collectively moving particles, such phenomena can be studied from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Jian Sun , Jiasen Niu , Yifan Li , Yang Liu , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , Pengjie Wang , Xi Lin

Recent studies have shown that novel collective behaviors emerge in complex systems due to the presence of higher-order interactions. However, how the collective behavior of a system is influenced by the microscopic organization of its…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-01 Federico Malizia , Santiago Lamata-Otín , Mattia Frasca , Vito Latora , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

Dispersal between different habitats influences the dynamics and stability of populations considerably. Furthermore, these effects depend on the local interactions of a population with other species. Here, we perform a general and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 Philipp Gramlich , Sebastian J. Plitzko , Lars Rudolf , Barbara Drossel , Thilo Gross

In this work, we propose a distributed hierarchical locomotion control strategy for whole-body cooperation and demonstrate the potential for migration into large numbers of agents. Our method utilizes a hierarchical structure to break down…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chuye Hong , Kangyao Huang , Huaping Liu

Highly-diverse ecosystems exhibit a broad distribution of population sizes and species turnover, where species at high and low abundances are exchanged over time. We show that these two features generically emerge in the fluctuating phase…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-09 Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey , Guy Bunin
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