Science Daily October 24, 2018
To determine collective group behavior emerging from the dynamic behavior of individuals, researchers at the US Army Research Laboratory have developed a model bypassing time-consuming calculations and represent the sought-for sensitivity in a single parameter to show how an individual adapts to group behavior. They focused on constructing and interpreting the output of large-scale computer models of complex dynamic networks from which collective properties such as swarming, collective intelligence and decision making could be determined. In tests the model showed that the analytic solution to this new kind of equation coincides with the predictions of the large-scale computer simulation of the group dynamics…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Army-developed computational model simulates group dynamics and individual behavior. (Shutterstock)