Journal ArticleDOI
Reality mining of animal social systems.
Jens Krause,Stefan Krause,Robert Arlinghaus,Robert Arlinghaus,Ioannis Psorakis,Stephen J. Roberts,Christian Rutz +6 more
TLDR
Important issues concerning the collection of data on the social dynamics of almost entire populations of individuals, and their processing and analysis, are reviewed to identify the most promising approaches in the emerging field of 'reality mining'.Abstract:
The increasing miniaturisation of animal-tracking technology has made it possible to gather exceptionally detailed machine-sensed data on the social dynamics of almost entire populations of individuals, in both terrestrial and aquatic study systems. Here, we review important issues concerning the collection of such data, and their processing and analysis, to identify the most promising approaches in the emerging field of 'reality mining'. Automated technologies can provide data sensing at time intervals small enough to close the gap between social patterns and their underlying processes, providing insights into how social structures arise and change dynamically over different timescales. Especially in conjunction with experimental manipulations, reality mining promises significant advances in basic and applied research on animal social systems.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Re-wilding collective behaviour: An ecological perspective
TL;DR: The perspective the authors present here aims to inspire and steer this research toward answering fundamental and outstanding behavioural and ecological questions, while also tackling pertinent conservation challenges.
Journal ArticleDOI
A system for automatic recording of social behavior in a free-living wild house mouse population
Barbara König,Anna K. Lindholm,Patricia C. Lopes,Akos Dobay,Sally Steinert,Frank Jens‑Uwe Buschmann +5 more
TL;DR: The observation that mice lived in rather closed social groups and tended to share nest boxes with relatives highlights the importance of kin selection for the evolution and maintenance of social behavior.
Journal ArticleDOI
Experimental manipulation of avian social structure reveals segregation is carried over across contexts
Josh A. Firth,Ben C. Sheldon +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that experimentally imposed constraints were carried over into patterns of association at unrestricted, ephemeral food patches, as well as at nesting sites during breeding territory prospecting, indicating the potential for previously perturbed social networks of wild animals to recover from segregation driven by external constraints.
Journal ArticleDOI
Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of High-Resolution Animal Networks: What Can We Learn from Domestic Animals?
TL;DR: Real-time location system is used to accurately track cattle position, analyze their proximity networks, and tested the hypothesis of temporal stationarity and spatial homogeneity in these networks during different daily time periods and in different areas of the pen.
References
More filters
Book
Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques
TL;DR: This book presents dozens of algorithms and implementation examples, all in pseudo-code and suitable for use in real-world, large-scale data mining projects, and provides a comprehensive, practical look at the concepts and techniques you need to get the most out of real business data.
Book
Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications
TL;DR: This paper presents mathematical representation of social networks in the social and behavioral sciences through the lens of Dyadic and Triadic Interaction Models, which describes the relationships between actor and group measures and the structure of networks.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications.
TL;DR: This work characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes (individual actors, people, or things within the network) and the ties, edges, or links that connect them.
Book
Networks: An Introduction
TL;DR: This book brings together for the first time the most important breakthroughs in each of these fields and presents them in a coherent fashion, highlighting the strong interconnections between work in different areas.
Journal ArticleDOI
Complex networks: Structure and dynamics
TL;DR: The major concepts and results recently achieved in the study of the structure and dynamics of complex networks are reviewed, and the relevant applications of these ideas in many different disciplines are summarized, ranging from nonlinear science to biology, from statistical mechanics to medicine and engineering.