V-like formations in flocks of artificial birds
<|reference_start|>V-like formations in flocks of artificial birds: We consider flocks of artificial birds and study the emergence of V-like formations during flight. We introduce a small set of fully distributed positioning rules to guide the birds' movements and demonstrate, by means of simulations, that they tend to lead to stabilization into several of the well-known V-like formations that have been observed in nature. We also provide quantitative indicators that we believe are closely related to achieving V-like formations, and study their behavior over a large set of independent simulations.<|reference_end|>
@article{nathan2006v-like,
    title={V-like formations in flocks of artificial birds},
    author={Andre Nathan, Valmir C. Barbosa},
    journal={Artificial Life 14 (2008), 179-188},
    year={2006},
    doi={10.1162/artl.2008.14.2.179},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0611032},
    primaryClass={cs.NE}
}