The field of collective animal behaviour examines how relatively simple, local interactions
between individuals in groups combine to produce global-level outcomes. Existing …

Collective decision making in self-organized systems is challenging because it relies on
local perception and local communication. Globally defined qualities such as consensus …

The engineering of large-scale decentralised systems requires sound methodologies to
guarantee the attainment of the desired macroscopic system-level behaviour given the …

How does the size of a swarm affect its collective action? Despite being arguably a key
parameter, no systematic and satisfactory guiding principles exist to select the number of …

During reproductive swarming, a honeybee swarm needs to decide on a new nest site and
then move to the chosen site collectively. Most studies of swarming and nest-site selection …

Many social animals cooperatively process information during decision making, allowing
them to concentrate on the best of several options. However, positive feedback created by …

All honeybees use the waggle dance to recruit nestmates. Studies on the dance precision of
Apis mellifera have shown that the dance is often imprecise. Two hypotheses have been put …

Most studies on collective decision making in honeybees have been performed on the cavity-
nesting Western honeybee, Apis mellifera. In more recent years, the open-nesting red dwarf …

Biologically inspired collective decision-making algorithms show promise for implementing
spatially distributed searching tasks with robotic systems. One example is the best-of-N …

Goal-based agents need to be resilient to perturbations in the world. Existing resilience
definitions emphasize maintenance-type goals and, consequently, describe how well …