Abstract The puzzling idea that the combination of independent estimates magnitude a quantity results in very accurate prediction, which is superior to any or, at least, most individual known as wisdom crowds. Here we use federal reserve bank Philadelphia’s survey professional forecasters database confront statistical and psychophysical explanations this phenomenon. Overall find data do not sup...

We present a new local method for collision avoidance that is based on collision prediction. In our model, each pedestrian predicts possible future collisions with other pedestrians and then makes an efficient move to avoid them. Experiments show that the new approach leads to considerably shorter and less curved paths, ensuring smooth avoidance behaviour and visually compelling simulations. Th...

The fundamental question is this: can the wisdom of crowds be exploited to post-filter the literature?

The first part of our paper presents a general survey on the modeling, analytic problems, and applications dynamics human crowds, where specific features living systems are taken into account in modeling approach. This critical analysis leads to second which is devoted research perspectives multiscale topics followed by hints towards possible achievements. Perspectives include social dynamics, ...