How the Spatial Position of Individuals Affects Their Influence on Swarms: A Numerical Comparison of Two Popular Swarm Dynamics Models

• Allison Kolpas ,

  * E-mail: AKolpas@wcupa.edu

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Michael Busch,

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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• Hong Li,

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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• Iain D. Couzin,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Linda Petzold,

  Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Department of Computer Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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• Jeff Moehlis

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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