Fast and Robust Flocking of Protesters on Street Networks
<|reference_start|>Fast and Robust Flocking of Protesters on Street Networks: We propose a simple model of protesters scattered throughout a city who want to gather into large and mobile groups. This model relies on random walkers on a street network that follow tactics built from a set of basic rules. Our goal is to identify the most important rules for fast and robust flocking of walkers. We explore a wide set of tactics and show the central importance of a specific rule based on alignment. Other rules alone perform poorly, but our experiments show that combining alignment with them enhances flocking, and that obtained groups are then remarkably robust.<|reference_end|>
@article{moinard2024fast,
    title={Fast and Robust Flocking of Protesters on Street Networks},
    author={Guillaume Moinard, Matthieu Latapy},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.01101},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2406.01101},
    primaryClass={cs.MA cs.SI}
}