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We consider a task of surveillance-evading path-planning in a continuous setting. An Evader strives to escape from a 2D domain while minimizing the risk of detection (and immediate capture). The probability of detection is path-dependent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Dongping Qi , David Bindel , Alexander Vladimirsky

Collective motion provides a spectacular example of self-organization in Nature. Visual information plays a crucial role among various types of information in determining interactions. Recently, experiments have revealed that organisms such…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-07-26 Susumu Ito , Nariya Uchida

Evolutionary competition often occurs simultaneously at multiple levels of organization, in which traits or behaviors that are costly for an individual can provide collective benefits to groups to which the individual belongs. Building off…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-14 Konstantinos Alexiou , Daniel B. Cooney

Order can spontaneously emerge from seemingly noisy interactions between biological agents, like a flock of birds changing their direction of flight in unison, without a leader or an external cue. We are interested in the generic conditions…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Carsten T. van de Kamp , George Dadunashvili , Johan L. A. Dubbeldam , Timon Idema

Collective motion in animal groups provide examples of emergent, decentralised coordination. Here, we examine a bottom-up model of collective behavior based on Future State Maximisation (FSM). In this model agents seek to maximise the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-22 Sam Turley , Matthew Turner

Large-scale online campaigns, malicious or otherwise, require a significant degree of coordination among participants, which sparked interest in the study of coordinated online behavior. State-of-the-art methods for detecting coordinated…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Serena Tardelli , Leonardo Nizzoli , Maurizio Tesconi , Mauro Conti , Preslav Nakov , Giovanni Da San Martino , Stefano Cresci

Cooperation in heterogeneous groups, where individuals differ in resources, productivity, and behavioural responsiveness, underpins collective action across many social and biological systems. Introspection dynamics, in which each player…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Harry Foster , Vincent A. Knight , Sebastian Krapohl

We propose a simple model to explore an educational phenomenon where the correct answer emerges from group discussion. We construct our model based on several plausible assumptions: (i) We tend to follow peers' opinions. However, if a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-27 Jibeom Seo , Beom Jun Kim

Exploring the collective behavior of interacting entities is of great interest and importance. Rather than focusing on static and uniform connections, we examine the co-evolution of diverse mobile agents experiencing varying interactions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-16 Guram Mikaberidze , Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Alan Hastings , Raissa M. DSouza

Understanding the mechanisms behind emergent behaviors in multi-agent systems is critical for advancing fields such as swarm robotics and artificial intelligence. In this study, we investigate how neural networks evolve to control agents'…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-10-28 Guilherme S. Y. Giardini , John F. Hardy , Carlo R. da Cunha

Circular Dyson Brownian motion describes the Brownian dynamics of particles on a circle (periodic boundary conditions), interacting through a logarithmic, long-range two-body potential. Within the log-gas picture of random matrix theory, it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-11 Wouter Buijsman

An interesting example for collective decision making is the so-called Mexican wave during which the spectators in a stadium leap to their feet with their arms up and then sit down again following those to their left (right) with a small…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Illes J. Farkas , Tamas Vicsek

We propose a simple framework to understand commonly observed crisis waves in macroeconomic Agent Based models, that is also relevant to a variety of other physical or biological situations where synchronization occurs. We compute exactly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-03 Stanislao Gualdi , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Giulia Cencetti , Marco Tarzia , Francesco Zamponi

While microscopic organisms can use gradient-based search to locate resources, this strategy can be poorly suited to the sensory signals available to macroscopic organisms. We propose a framework that models search-decision making in cases…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-04 Andrew M. Hein , Scott A. McKinley

Information sharing between individuals is crucial to improve performance in collective tasks. However, in a competitive world, individuals may be reluctant to share information with the others, and it is still unclear how the presence of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-05-04 Ye Wang , Andrea Civilini , Anzhi Sheng , Xiaojie Chen , Long Wang , Vito Latora

Collective cooperation drives the dynamics of many natural, social, and economic phenomena, making understanding the evolution of cooperation with evolutionary game theory a central question of modern science. Although human interactions…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-12 Yao Meng , Alex McAvoy , Aming Li

We introduce and study analytically and numerically a simple model of inter-agent competition, where underachievement is strongly discouraged. We consider $N\gg 1$ particles performing independent Brownian motions on the line. Two particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-03 P. L. Krapivsky , Ohad Vilk , Baruch Meerson

The signal of continuous gravitational waves has a longer duration than the observation period. Even if the waveform in the source frame is monochromatic, we will observe the waveform with modulated frequencies due to the motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Takahiro Tanaka

The increasing pervasiveness of object tracking technologies leads to huge volumes of spatiotemporal data collected in the form of trajectory streams. The discovery of useful group patterns from moving objects' movement behaviours in…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Yanwei Yu , Ruoshan Lan , Lei Cao , Peng Song , Yingjie Wang

Aggregated phenomena in social sciences and economics are highly dependent on the way individuals interact. To help understanding the interplay between socio-economic activities and underlying social networks, this paper studies a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 David Chavalarias