Collective self-optimization of communicating active particles.

ABSTRACT: The quest for how to collectively self-organize in order to maximize the survival chances of the members of a social group requires finding an optimal compromise between maximizing the well-being of an individual and that of the group. Here we develop a minimal model describing active individuals which consume or produce, and respond to a shared resource-such as the oxygen concentration for aerotactic bacteria or the temperature field for penguins-while urging for an optimal resource value. Notably, this model can be approximated by an attraction-repulsion model, but, in general, it features many-body interactions. While the former prevents some individuals from closely approaching the optimal value of the shared "resource field," the collective many-body interactions induce aperiodic patt

SUBMITTER: Zampetaki AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8670500 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature