Groups of people or even robots often face problems they need to solve together. Examples
include collectively searching for resources, choosing when and where to invest time and …

In recent years, behavioral ecologists have embraced social network analysis (SNA) in order
to explore the structure of animal societies and the functional consequences of that structure …

Many current marine conservation approaches do not adequately consider the diverse
social elements and human aspects necessary to achieve conservation outcomes. The …

Heterospecific aggregations and foraging associations have been observed between
different species, from apes to birds to insects. Such associations are hypothesized to result …

The expansion of human populations has increased interactions and confiict between
humans and nonhuman primates (hereafter primates) throughout their range. Assessing the …

Colonial hydroids, corals, bryozoans, ascidia, and some other aqueous species look as
numerous interconnected bodies. However, they are not communities; rather, they are …

We introduce a model for collective information acquisition from the environment, in a
biological population. In this model, individuals can make noisy observations of the …

Group-living animals have to reach consensus decisions through recruitment processes
while collectively exploiting food resources in heterogeneous environments. In farming …

Колониальные гидроиды, кораллы, мшанки, асцидии и некоторые другие водные
организмы состоят как будто из множества соединенных друг с другом особей. Но это …

Both humans and social animals live in groups and are frequently faced to choose between
options with different qualities. When no leader agents are controlling the group decision …