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A quest toward a mathematical theory of the dynamics of swarms

Department of Mathematics, Faculty Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

E-mail Address: nicola.bellomo@polito.it

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Department of Mathematical Sciences and Research Institute of Mathematics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea

Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Hoegiro 87, Seoul, 130-722, Korea

E-mail Address: syha@snu.ac.kr

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202517500154Cited by:84 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

This paper addresses some preliminary steps toward the modeling and qualitative analysis of swarms viewed as living complex systems. The approach is based on the methods of kinetic theory and statistical mechanics, where interactions at the microscopic scale are nonlocal, nonlinearly additive and modeled by theoretical tools of stochastic game theory. Collective learning theory can play an important role in the modeling approach. We present a kinetic equation incorporating the Cucker–Smale flocking force and stochastic game theoretic interactions in collision operators. We also present a sufficient framework leading to the asymptotic velocity alignment and global existence of smooth solutions for the proposed kinetic model with a special kernel. Analytic results on the global existence and flocking dynamics are presented, while the last part of the paper looks ahead to research perspectives.

Communicated by F. Brezzi

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AMSC: 82D99, 91D10

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