Re: [Swarm-Modelling] ABM in Nature

[Steve Railsback]

address@hidden wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I looked at the paper briefly and couldn't tell whether it was a PDE
> or some sort of ABM/IBM; I could not tell if there was any
> parallelism involved with the implementation of the equations.  Could
> you, or someone else on the list enlighten me?  Thanks

Some of the authors on that paper have actually tried to model fish 
schooling with analytical equations (Flierl, G., D. Grünbaum, S. Levin, 
and D. Olson. 1999. From individuals to aggregations: The interplay 
between behavior and physics. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 196,
397–454.)

But in the paper they discuss what individuals know and do, so I infer 
it is an individual-based model. If not, they could not have resisted 
showing the math. (There is nothing on the 'supplemental information' 
site that provides any more information on the model.)

Steve

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