A Cucker--Smale Model with Noise and Delay

Radek Erban, Jan Haskovec, Yongzheng Sun

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Abstract

A generalization of the Cucker-Smale model for collective animal behavior is investigated. The model is formulated as a system of delayed stochastic differential equations. It incorporates two additional processes which are present in animal decision making, but are often neglected in modeling: (i) stochasticity (imperfections) of individual behavior and (ii) delayed responses of individuals to signals in their environment. Sufficient conditions for flocking for the generalized Cucker-Smale model are derived by using a suitable Lyapunov functional. As a by-product, a new result regarding the asymptotic behavior of delayed geometric Brownian motion is obtained. In the second part of the paper, results of systematic numerical simulations are presented. They not only illustrate the analytical results, but hint at a somehow surprising behavior
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1535-1557
Number of pages23
JournalSIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
Volume76
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 9 2016

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