There are certain correlations between collective behavior and spreading dynamics on some real complex networks. Based on the dynamical characteristics and traditional physical models, we construct several new bidirectional network models of spreading phenomena. By theoretical and numerical analysis of these models, we find that the collective behavior can inhibit spreading behavior, but, conve...

In the present position paper, I explore biologicallyinspired computational processes that allow complex high-level collective behaviors to arise from low-level artificial agents (swarmers) – automatically. In contrast to similar projects, I seek elimination of technical constraints that narrow the free development of biologyanalogous behavioral patterns. The result of such swarm evolutions is ...

Computational models of human collective behavior offer promise in providing quantitative and empirically verifiable accounts of how individual decisions lead to the emergence of group-level organizations. Agent-based models (ABMs) describe interactions among individual agents and their environment, and provide a process-oriented alternative to descriptive mathematical models. Recent ABMs provi...

This is an introduction to the special issue titled ‘‘Collective behavior and evolutionary games’’ that is in the making at Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. The term collective behavior covers many different phenomena in nature and society. From bird flocks and fish swarms to social movements and herding effects [1–5], it is the lack of a central planner that makes the spontaneous emergence of somet...

While sequential behavior of single objects is fairly well understood, orchestrating the collective behavior emerging from the behaviors of individual objects continues to be a challenging task. This is especially true for distributed reactive systems. The joint action paradigm is a design methodology that concentrates on the collective behavior of objects. Aspects of collective behavior are gr...

Mated birds of many species vocalize together, producing duets. Duetting behavior occurs at two levels of organization: the individual level and the pair level. Individuals initiate vocalizations, answer their mates’ vocalizations, and control the structure and timing of their own vocalizations. Pairs produce duets that vary with respect to duration, temporal coordination, and phrase-type combi...

code component. A pattern represents the core of a solution to similar recurring problems, comprising a general arrangement of classes/objects (Gamma et al. 94). Design patterns are more abstract design elements than frameworks (they may be applied in the construction and design of a framework) and their architectural granularity is ner. The activity is a modelling and programming mechanism tha...

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Team cognition can be defined as the ability that humans have to coordinate with others through a complex environment. Sports offer exquisite examples of this dynamic interplay requiring decision making and other perceptual-cognitive skills to adjust individual decisions to the team selforganization and vice-versa. Considering players of a team as periodic phase oscillators, synchrony analyses ...

Similar patterns of interaction, such as network motifs and feedback loops, are used in many natural collective processes, probably because they have evolved independently under similar pressures. Here I consider how three environmental constraints may shape the evolution of collective behavior: the patchiness of resources, the operating costs of maintaining the interaction network that produce...