Self-organization in collective honeybee foraging: emergence of symmetry breaking, cross inhibition and equal harvest-rate distribution

The herd moves?: emergence and self-organization in collective actors

Self-organization and symmetry-breaking in two-dimensional plasma turbulence

The spontaneous self-organization of two-dimensional magnetized plasma is investigated within the framework of magnetohydrodynamics with a particular emphasis on the symmetry-breaking induced by the shape of the confining boundaries. This symmetry-breaking is quantified by the angular momentum, which is shown to be generated rapidly and spontaneously from initial conditions free from angular mo...

Emergence, Singularities, and Symmetry Breaking

A Collective Robotics Application Based on Emergence and Self-organization

This paper presents a collective robotics application, which consists of making a pool of robots regroup objects that are distributed in their environment. The innovative aspect in our approach rests on a system integrating operationally autonomous robots that make the global task achieved by virtue of emergence and self-organization.

Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms.

Honeybee swarms and complex brains show many parallels in how they make decisions. In both, separate populations of units (bees or neurons) integrate noisy evidence for alternatives, and, when one population exceeds a threshold, the alternative it represents is chosen. We show that a key feature of a brain--cross inhibition between the evidence-accumulating populations--also exists in a swarm a...