[Swarm-Modelling] Couzin et al. ABM in Nature

[Steve Railsback]

Last week I made an unfortunately phrased posting concerning the new 
paper in Nature by Couzin et al. ("Effective leadership and 
decision-making in animal groups on the move", p. 513) and a previous 
study I had been involved in that addressed a similar problem. I did not 
intend to imply that the authors intentionally failed to give credit for 
the previous study; I have since been in touch with the authors and they 
assure me that they were unaware of our paper.

Meanwhile, I encourage people to read the new paper. It is a good 
example of a topic often discussed here- how do you design and analyze 
an ABM to develop results of general theoretical interest. Try getting 
it here: 
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v433/n7025/index.html

Steve Railsback