A computational topology-based spatiotemporal analysis technique for honeybee aggregation | npj Complexity

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Download PDF Subjects Biological models Biological techniques Abstract A primary challenge in understanding collective behavior is characterizing the spatiotemporal dynamics of the group. We employ topological data analysis to explore the structure of honeybee aggregations that form during trophallaxis, which is the direct exchange of food among nestmates. From the positions of individual bees, we build topological summaries called CROCKER matrices to track the morphology of the group as a function of scale and time. Each column of a CROCKER matrix records the number of topological features, s

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