All Stories

  1. Cooperation and deception through stigmergic interactions in human groups

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  2. The impact of individual perceptual and cognitive factors on collective states in a data-driven fish school model

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, March 2022, PLOS

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  3. Computational and robotic modeling reveal parsimonious combinations of interactions between individuals in schooling fish

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, March 2020, PLOS

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  4. The Role of Colony Size on Tunnel Branching Morphogenesis in Ant Nests

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2014, PLOS

    Dr Guy Theraulaz, Dr Sergi Valverde

  5. Embracing the Creativity of Stigmergy in Social Insects

    Article • Architectural Design, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  6. Residence times and boundary-following behavior in animals

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  7. Swarming, schooling, milling: phase diagram of a data-driven fish school model

    Article • New Journal of Physics, January 2014, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  8. Bio-Inspired Models of Network, Information, and Computing Systems

    Article • January 2014

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  9. Vision-based macroscopic pedestrian models

    Article • Kinetic and Related Models, November 2013, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  10. Human-friendly robot navigation in dynamic environments

    Article • May 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  11. Do Ants Need to Estimate the Geometrical Properties of Trail Bifurcations to Find an Efficient Route? A Swarm Robotics Test Bed

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, March 2013, PLOS

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  12. Collective motion in biological systems

    Article • Interface Focus, October 2012, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  13. Deciphering Interactions in Moving Animal Groups

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, September 2012, PLOS

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  14. Individual Rules for Trail Pattern Formation in Argentine Ants (Linepithema humile)

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, July 2012, PLOS

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  15. Modeling Collective Animal Behavior with a Cognitive Perspective: A Methodological Framework

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2012, PLOS

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  16. Traffic Instabilities in Self-Organized Pedestrian Crowds

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, March 2012, PLOS

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  17. Reconstructing Motion Capture Data for Human Crowd Study

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  18. The Dynamics of Colony Organization in the Primitively Eusocial Wasp Polistes dominulus Christ

    Article • Ethology, April 2010, Wiley

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  19. The Walking Behaviour of Pedestrian Social Groups and Its Impact on Crowd Dynamics

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2010, PLOS

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  20. Analogies Between Social Interaction Models and Supply Chains

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  21. Collective Information Processing and Pattern Formation in Swarms, Flocks, and Crowds

    Article • Topics in Cognitive Science, July 2009, Wiley

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  22. Percolation in insect nest networks: Evidence for optimal wiring

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Guy Theraulaz, Dr Sergi Valverde

  23. Path selection and foraging efficiency in Argentine ant transport networks

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, March 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  24. The Embodiment of Cockroach Aggregation Behavior in a Group of Micro-robots

    Article • Artificial Life, October 2008, The MIT Press

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  25. Key Behavioural Factors in a Self-Organised Fish School Model

    Article • Annales Zoologici Fennici, October 2008, Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  26. Topological efficiency in three-dimensional gallery networks of termite nests

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, October 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz, Dr Sergi Valverde

  27. Analyzing fish movement as a persistent turning walker

    Article • Journal of Mathematical Biology, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  28. The structure of gallery networks in the nests of termite Cubitermes spp. revealed by X-ray tomography

    Article • The Science of Nature, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz, Dr Sergi Valverde

  29. Are ants sensitive to the geometry of tunnel bifurcation?

    Article • Animal Cognition, May 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  30. Swarm Smarts

    Article • Scientific American A Matter of Time, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  31. The Topological Fortress of Termites

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz, Dr Sergi Valverde

  32. The biological principles of swarm intelligence

    Article • Swarm Intelligence, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  33. Alice in Pheromone Land: An Experimental Setup for the Study of Ant-like Robots

    Article • April 2007, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  34. The growth and form of tunnelling networks in ants

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, December 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  35. The interplay between a self-organized process and an environmental template: corpse clustering under the influence of air currents in ants

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, September 2006, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  36. Path efficiency of ant foraging trails in an artificial network

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  37. Self-organized digging activity in ant colonies

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, February 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  38. Self-organized aggregation in cockroaches

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  39. Aggregation Behaviour as a Source of Collective Decision in a Group of Cockroach-Like-Robots

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  40. Nest excavation in ants: group size effects on the size and structure of tunneling networks

    Article • The Science of Nature, October 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  41. How individual interactions control aggregation patterns in gregarious arthropods

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, September 2004, John Benjamins

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  42. Discrete dragline attachment induces aggregation in spiderlings of a solitary species

    Article • Animal Behaviour, March 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  43. Modulation of individual behavior and collective decision-making during aggregation site selection by the ant Messor barbarus

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, February 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  44. Modeling Ant Behavior Under a Variable Environment

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  45. A model of animal movements in a bounded space

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, December 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  46. Dispersion movements in ants: spatial structuring and density-dependent effects

    Article • Behavioural Processes, May 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  47. Emergent Polyethism as a Consequence of Increased Colony Size in Insect Societies

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  48. Task Partitioning in a Ponerine Ant

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  49. Self-Organized Networks of Galleries in the Ant Messor Sancta

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  50. Ant algorithms and stigmergy

    Article • Future Generation Computer Systems, June 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  51. Swarm Smarts

    Article • Scientific American, March 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  52. Three-dimensional architectures grown by simple ‘stigmergic’ agents

    Article • Biosystems, March 2000, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  53. A Brief History of Stigmergy

    Article • Artificial Life, April 1999, The MIT Press

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  54. The mechanisms and rules of coordinated building in social insects

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  55. Role and variability of response thresholds in the regulation of division of labor in insect societies

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  56. Within‐Brood Competition and the Optimal Partitioning of Parental Investment

    Article • The American Naturalist, September 1998, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  57. The origin of nest complexity in social insects

    Article • Complexity, July 1998, Wiley

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  58. Dripping faucet with ants

    Article • May 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  59. Phase-ordering kinetics of cemetery organization in ants

    Article • April 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  60. The synchronization of recruitment-based activities in ants

    Article • Biosystems, March 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  61. Routing in telecommunications networks with ant-like agents

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  62. Self-organization in social insects

    Article • Trends in Ecology & Evolution, May 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  63. Mathematical model of self-organizing hierarchies in animal societies

    Article • Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, July 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  64. Modelling the Collective Building of Complex Architectures in Social Insects with Lattice Swarms

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, December 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  65. Phase diagram of a model of self-organizing hierarchies

    Article • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, August 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  66. Self-organization of hierarchies in animal societies: the case of the primitively eusocial waspPolistes dominulusChrist

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, June 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  67. Social Regulation of Foraging Activities in Polistes Dominulus Christ: a Systemic Approach To Behavioural Organization

    Article • Behaviour, January 1991, Brill

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  68. Cuticular hydrocarbons, social organization and ovarian development in a polistine wasp: Polistes dominulus christ

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Comparative Biochemistry, January 1991, Elsevier

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  69. Behavioural Profiles in Polistes Dominulus (Christ) Wasp Societies: a Quantitative Study

    Article • Behaviour, January 1990, Brill

    Dr Guy Theraulaz

  70. From Local Growth to Global Optimization in Insect Built Networks

    Article • IGI Global

    Dr Guy Theraulaz