Simulation Model to Aid Understanding into Self-organised Collective Behaviour

📄 Project Abstract

This report focuses on the conditions under which a population of agents initially able to survive independently will produce progressively more integrated behaviour, such that they become interdependent on one another, through the process of self-organisation. A simulation model was produced in order to understand these conditions. Many existing models focus on accurately modelling selforganised collective behaviour but not its emergence from independent behaviour. It was found that the transition was most clear when agents could bene_x0002_t from each other's presence without having to make radical behavioural changes, and when their life-span was so short relative to their movement speed that their position within an aggregate effected the evolution of their behavioural strategy, causing spatial organisation of different strategies within aggregates.