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This paper is concerned with mathematical modeling of intelligent systems, such as human crowds and animal groups. In particular, the focus is on the emergence of different self-organized patterns from non-locality and anisotropy of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Emiliano Cristiani , Benedetto Piccoli , Andrea Tosin

Stochastic models of diffusion with excluded-volume effects are used to model many biological and physical systems at a discrete level. The average properties of the population may be described by a continuum model based on partial…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Maria Bruna , S. Jonathan Chapman

A robotic swarm that is required to operate for long periods in a potentially unknown environment can use both evolution and individual learning methods in order to adapt. However, the role played by the environment in influencing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Andreas Steyven , Emma Hart , Ben Paechter

Dynamic task allocation is an essential requirement for multi-robot systems operating in unknown dynamic environments. It allows robots to change their behavior in response to environmental changes or actions of other robots in order to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Kristina Lerman , Chris Jones , Aram Galstyan , Maja J Mataric

We investigate the long-time behavior of phenotype-structured models describing evolutionary dynamics of asexual populations, and analyze the joint effects of nonlocal interactions and spatial resource distributions on the global dynamics…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Shen Bian

We consider here a logistic equation, modeling processes of nonlocal character both in the diffusion and proliferation terms. More precisely, for populations that propagate according to a L\'evy process and can reach resources in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Luis Caffarelli , Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci

Random walks and related spatial stochastic models have been used in a range of application areas including animal and plant ecology, infectious disease epidemiology, developmental biology, wound healing, and oncology. Classical random walk…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-22 Michael J. Plank , Matthew J. Simpson , Ruth E. Baker

In this paper we consider the mathematical relationship between nonlocal interactions of convolution type and multiple diffusive substances in high dimensions. Motivated by that the nonlocal evolution equations reproduce similar patterns to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Hiroshi Ishii , Yoshitaro Tanaka

Thanks to recent technological advances, it is now possible to track with an unprecedented precision and for long periods of time the movement patterns of many living organisms in their habitat. The increasing amount of data available on…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-19 Denis Boyer , Peter D. Walsh

In any ecosystem, the conditions of the environment and the characteristics of the species that inhabit it are entangled, co-evolving in space and time. We introduce a model that couples active agents with a dynamic environment, interpreted…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-10 G. Briozzo , G. J. Sibona , F. Peruani

The ability to predict the future trajectories of traffic participants is crucial for the safe and efficient operation of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, a diffusion-based generative model for multi-agent trajectory prediction is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Theodor Westny , Björn Olofsson , Erik Frisk

Pattern formation often occurs in confined systems, yet how boundaries shape patterning dynamics is unclear. We develop techniques to analyze confinement effects in nonlocal advection-diffusion equations, which generically capture the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-11 Jan Rombouts , Michael L Zhao , Alexander Aulehla , Anna Erzberger

The transition from a microscopic model for the movement of many particles to a macroscopic continuum model for a density flow is studied. The microscopic model for the free flow is completely deterministic, described by an interaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-12 Jennifer Weissen , Simone Göttlich , Dieter Armbruster

Collective animal movement fascinates children and scientists alike. One of the most commonly given explanations for collective animal movement is improved foraging. Animals are hypothesized to gain from searching for food in groups. Here,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Ravid Cohen , Yossi Yovel , Dan Halperin

The transient behavior of an ecosystem with N random interacting species in the presence of a multiplicative noise is analyzed. The multiplicative noise mimics the interaction with the environment. We investigate different asymptotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Spagnolo , D. Valenti , A. Fiasconaro

The evolutionary mechanisms of cooperative behavior represent a fundamental topic in complex systems and evolutionary dynamics. Real-world collective interactions, particularly in multi-agent systems, are often characterized by…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-23 Yishen Jiang , Xin Wang , Wenqiang Zhu , Ming Wei , Longzhao Liu , Shaoting Tang , Hongwei Zheng

Nature is in constant flux, so animals must account for changes in their environment when making decisions. How animals learn the timescale of such changes and adapt their decision strategies accordingly is not well understood. Recent…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-24 Zachary P. Kilpatrick , William R. Holmes , Tahra L. Eissa , Krešimir Josić

Highly evolved animals continuously update their knowledge of social factors, refining movement decisions based on both historical and real-time observations. Despite its significance, research on the underlying mechanisms remains limited.…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-31 Tianxu Wang , Kyunghan Choi , Hao Wang

We consider a model for a population in a heterogeneous environment, with logistic type local population dynamics, under the assumption that individuals can switch between two different nonzero rates of diffusion. Such switching behavior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Robert Stephen Cantrell , Chris Cosner , Xiao Yu

Biological organisms adapt to changes by processing informations from different sources, most notably from their ancestors and from their environment. We review an approach to quantify these informations by analyzing mathematical models of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-23 Olivier Rivoire