Within animal populations there is variation among individuals in their tendency to be social,
where more sociable individuals associate more with other individuals. Consistent inter …

BACKGROUND The movement of animals makes them fascinating but difficult study
subjects. Animal movements underpin many biological phenomena, and understanding …

Quantitative behavioral measurements are important for answering questions across
scientific disciplines—from neuroscience to ecology. State-of-the-art deep-learning methods …

Automated visual tracking of animals is rapidly becoming an indispensable tool for the study
of behavior. It offers a quantitative methodology by which organisms' sensing and decision …

Social organisation in animals takes many forms. It includes assemblages of territorial
animals, dominance hierarchies and social groups, among other things. The basic tenet that …

The SMART-BARN (scalable multimodal arena for real-time tracking behavior of animals in
large numbers) achieves fast, robust acquisition of movement, behavior, communication …

Flocking behaviour is often presented as an example of a self-organized process, where
individuals continuously negotiate on the direction of travel and compromise by moving …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flocking control with obstacle avoidance is a many-objective
optimization problem for centralized algorithms. A UAV flocking distributed optimization …

Moving animal groups display remarkable feats of coordination. This coordination is largely
achieved when individuals adjust their movement in response to their neighbours' …