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Modelling collective motion based on the principle of agency: General framework and the case of marching locusts
2019
PLoS ONE
Collective phenomena are studied in a range of contexts-from controlling locust plagues to efficiently evacuating stadiums-but the central question remains: how can a large number of independent individuals form a seemingly perfectly coordinated whole? Previous attempts to answer this question have reduced the individuals to featureless particles, assumed particular interactions between them and studied the resulting collective dynamics. While this approach has provided useful insights, it
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0212044
pmid:30785947
pmcid:PMC6382133
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