Systems Approach to Studying Animal Sociality: Individual Position versus Group Organization in Dynamic Social Network Models

Karlo Hock; Kah Loon Ng; Nina H. Fefferman

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015789

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Systems Approach to Studying Animal Sociality: Individual Position versus Group Organization in Dynamic Social Network Models

Karlo Hock ,

* E-mail: hock@aesop.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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Kah Loon Ng,

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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Nina H. Fefferman

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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Systems Approach to Studying Animal Sociality: Individual Position versus Group Organization in Dynamic Social Network Models

Karlo Hock,
Kah Loon Ng,
Nina H. Fefferman

Published: December 23, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015789

About the Authors

Karlo Hock

* E-mail: hock@aesop.rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Kah Loon Ng

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Nina H. Fefferman

Affiliations Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NHF KLN. Performed the experiments: KH. Analyzed the data: KH. Wrote the paper: KH NHF.

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