Collective Behaviors Through Social Interactions in Bird Flocks

Collective behaviors in multi-agent systems (MASs) is one of the most ubiquitous phenomena in the natural world, which often exhibit through social interactions among their agents. It is very important to understand the theoretical mechanisms at the basis of different collective behaviors. Therefore, various techniques and methods have been developed and investigated against this issue over the last decades. In this paper, we concentrate on several models of collective behaviors in bird flocks, a representative kind of MAS. Moreover, this article aims at providing a discussion of various facets of this interdisciplinary field, including simulation models, mathematical methods and control theory. The purposes are to offer readers a better understanding of complex systems and to promote this emerging topic on MASs.