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SUBMITTER: Kolpas A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1851594 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kolpas Allison A Moehlis Jeff J Kevrekidis Ioannis G IG
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070327 14
A single animal group can display different types of collective motion at different times. For a one-dimensional individual-based model of self-organizing group formation, we show that repeated switching between distinct ordered collective states can occur entirely because of stochastic effects. We introduce a framework for the coarse-grained, computer-assisted analysis of such stochasticity-induced switching in animal groups. This involves the characterization of the behavior of the system with ...[more]