Decision Making on All Levels
New insights into how animals travelling in groups make decisions have been provided by a team of researchers led by Iain Couzin of the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, and Princeton University. ‘Using a computer model allows us to observe and better understand the patterns that exist in group movements. Our model provides new insights into the mechanisms of effective leadership and decision-making in biological systems, and has broad implications for our understanding of information transfer in groups, from the interaction of cells to the movements of grouping robots.’
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