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"Collective behavior" can be defined as human individuals acting
together in groups; these groups can be as small as three people,
or as large as millions of people. Collective behavior is also
concerned with animals forming swarms and flocks, neurons firing in
synchrony, and chemical and biochemical particles with on-board
energy depots acting together as a whole. As such, collective
behavior refers to units (humans, animals, neurons, biochemical
substances, etc.) interacting with each other to form a whole. In
physics, collective phenomena have been studied for a long time for
systems that are in thermodynamic equilibrium. Magnetism produced
by the alignment of elementary spins is a well-known example. In
contrast, in this book, collective behavior refers to systems
composed of units that operate far from thermodynamical
equilibrium. It is about lifeforms and active biochemical
substances. This book presents recent developments in the research
field of collective behavior. Various disciplines are addressed,
ranging from economy, leisure sciences, and psychology to
neurosciences, physics and biology. This book is intended both for
the general reader interested in collective behavior and for the
quantitative researcher looking for an update in this rapidly
developing field. This book has two parts. The first part presents
theoretical fundamentals and concepts. The second part provides
chapters with mathematical modeling and simulations. Although the
individual chapters of this book report from a variety of research
disciplines, the chapters are interconnected with each other and
give rise to a general picture of the state-of-the-art research on
collective behavior.
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