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1. Computer Science › Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems

   Collective Memory and Spatial Sorting in Animal Groups

   Couzin, Krause, JAMES, Ruxton and Franks · Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2002

   The authors built a self-organizing 3D model of fish schools and bird flocks, finding sudden group-level behaviour shifts, collective memory, and ways individuals can change position using simple local rules.

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   1. Supported · 71%In a simulation of animal groups, the group's earlier structure shapes how it behaves as it switches from one collective behaviour to another.“Further, we present the first evidence for collective memory in such animal groups (where the previous history of group structure influences the collective behaviour exhibited as individual interactions change) during the transition of a group from one type of collective behaviour to another.”