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Information Flow on Interaction Networks.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,手稿 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Information Flow on Interaction Networks./
作者:	Leblanc, Simon.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (111 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: B.
標題:	Applied mathematics. -
電子資源:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355863314

Information Flow on Interaction Networks.
Leblanc, Simon.

Information Flow on Interaction Networks. - 1 online resource (111 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

Living in groups provides many benefits to individuals, like improved survival in the face of predators, increased ability to find food, or mates. In addition, group living animals, by pooling knowledge, can make better decisions than individuals in isolation. To gain such former benefits from being in a group, information has to be exchanged among group members, and how this is achieved when individuals are uncertain, have competing interests, exhibit individual differences, and must make decisions within complex habitats is not completely understood. While some animals communicate by exchanging signals, the majority of schooling fish predominantly use cues. They leak information through their actions: where, when and how they move. Fish have access to a lot of visual information, and yet how they use this has not been examined in depth. From recent knowledge of how fish employ visual information, interaction networks can be reconstructed revealing hidden pathways of communication (how the behavior of individuals influences others). In this thesis, I provide the tools and models necessary to generalize experimental techniques of visual field reconstruction to computer generated groups of individuals in arbitrary configurations. Then, I use the flexibility afforded by these methods to study multiple problems related to the anti-predatory behaviors of fish schools. A group has many eyes to keep watch of its surroundings, but how many? I show that the answer depends on multiple factors, like the global state of the group, its density, and the peripheral vision of the fish. Once a threat is detected, an effective response requires an alarm wave to spread. Although the capacity to detect predators can vary depending on their position around the group, alarms tend to spread equally well in all directions by virtue of the topology of the interaction network, itself a consequence of the embeddedness of the fish bodies in their environment. By studying how groups may adapt to perceived danger, I find that alarms spread best when individuals adjust their rules of motion, and their sensitivity to the movements of others, simultaneously. Finally, using a dynamical model, I show that predators can benefit from coordinating while hunting.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355863314Subjects--Topical Terms:

1069907
Applied mathematics.
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