Guillaume Moinard, Matthieu Latapy
In: Luca Maria Aiello, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Sabrina Gaito (eds) 16th International Conference, ASONAM 2024, Rende, Italy, September 2–5, 2024, Proceedings, Part IV
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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.