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Radar observations of locust swarms.

An Analysis of Locust Swarms on Large Scale Global Optimization Problems

Locust Swarms are a recently-developed multi-optima particle swarm. To test the potential of the new technique, they have been applied to the 1000-dimension optimization problems used in the recent CEC2008 Large Scale Global Optimization competition. The results for Locust Swarms are competitive on these problems, and in particular, much better than other particle swarm-based techniques. An ana...

Individual Pause-and-Go Motion Is Instrumental to the Formation and Maintenance of Swarms of Marching Locust Nymphs

The principal interactions leading to the emergence of order in swarms of marching locust nymphs was studied both experimentally, using small groups of marching locusts in the lab, and using computer simulations. We utilized a custom tracking algorithm to reveal fundamental animal-animal interactions leading to collective motion. Uncovering this behavior introduced a new agent-based modeling ap...

Locust flight

Under certain environmental and population conditions some species (the locusts) of Acridid Orthoptera swarm and are capable of migrating hundreds of miles using flight as the primary means of locomotion. Locust flight is a behavior that lends itself to analysis from many approaches and that has attracted considerable research attention for many years. In particular the role of the nervous syst...

Swarms of Swarms An extension of the Heatbug tutorial

The notion of a “swarm of swarms” (i.e., a hierarchy of swarms) is a strong theoretical concept meant to provide an explicit, measurable, and examinable link between the microlevel constituents in a complex system and the properties and actions exhibited by the macro-level system. Proposed examples range across such diverse topics as the modeling of biological organisms [3], techniques employed...