Understanding social organization is fundamental for the analysis of animal societies. In this
study, animal single-file movement data—serialized order movements generated by simple …

Moving in groups is integral to the life histories of many animals. Benefits of group
movement can include a 22 reduced risk of predation, an increased capacity to find sources …

Social network analysis is the study of patterns of interaction between social entities. The
field is attracting increasing attention from diverse disciplines including sociology …

Nature is rich with examples of the collective motion of animal groups, such as flocks of birds
or shoals of fish. The mechanisms of self-organization resulting in these spectacular …

Scientific studies from anthropologists, biologists, and sociologists hypothesized people who
live in the geo neighborhood have more chances to contact with each other and construct …

Statistical modelling of animal movement data is a rapidly growing area of research.
Typically though, these models have been developed for analysing the tracks of individual …

Group-living organisms that collectively migrate range from cells and bacteria to human
crowds, and include swarms of insects, schools of fish, and flocks of birds or ungulates …

This paper describes the way in which we have employed agent-based models to
understand fission-fusion dynamics (FFD), a collective pattern of behavior in many social …

Animal groups represent magnificent archetypes of self-organized collective behavior. As
such, they have attracted enormous interdisciplinary interest in the last years. From a …

Animal social networks are often built by aggregating a series of independent observations
of two or more members of a group interacting or in association. Every time an observation is …