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Title Effects of emotion on a flocking model

Name Alethea Barbaro
Country USA
Email alethea.barbaro@case.edu
Co-Author(s) Jesus Rosado, Andrea Bertozzi
Submit Time 2014-02-28 19:07:17
Session
Special Session 72: Kinetic models - analysis, computation, and applications
Contents
The effects of emotion on a crowd, such as fear or excitement, is not yet fully understood. However, many models have been proposed to simulate the dynamics of socially interacting organisms. The Cucker-Smale model and the model by Vicsek et al. are the most well-studied, particularly in the kinetic community. In this talk, we explore how incorporating a variable representing a contagious emotion can affect the dynamics of flocking models.