52 citations · 93 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for
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Noise-enabled goal attainment in crowded collectives
Lucy Liu, Justin Werfel, Federico Toschi +1
In crowded environments, individuals must navigate around other occupants to reach their destinations. Understanding and controlling traffic flows in these spaces is relevant for c…
Self-Organization and Artificial Life
Carlos Gershenson, Vito Trianni, Justin Werfel +1
Self-organization can be broadly defined as the ability of a system to display ordered spatio-temporal patterns solely as the result of the interactions among the system components…
Surface curvature guides early construction activity in mound-building termites
Daniel S. Calovi, Paul Bardunias, Nicole Carey +3
Termite colonies construct towering, complex mounds, in a classic example of distributed agents coordinating their activity via interaction with a shared environment. The tradition…
Self-Organization and Artificial Life: A Review
Carlos Gershenson, Vito Trianni, Justin Werfel +1
Self-organization has been an important concept within a number of disciplines, which Artificial Life (ALife) also has heavily utilized since its inception. The term and its implic…
Theory and associated phenomenology for intrinsic mortality arising from natural selection
Justin Werfel, Donald E. Ingber, Yaneer Bar-Yam
Standard evolutionary theories of aging and mortality, implicitly based on assumptions of spatial averaging, hold that natural selection cannot favor shorter lifespan without direc…
Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence
Alex Rutherford, Dion Harmon, Justin Werfel +4
We consider the conditions of peace and violence among ethnic groups, testing a theory designed to predict the locations of violence and interventions that can promote peace. Chara…