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A. B. Kao

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Approach:statistical model· 4 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1

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J. B. Bak-Coleman· 2 shared A. K. Hund· 1 shared A. M. Berdahl· 1 shared A. T. Hartnett· 1 shared C. C. Ioannou· 1 shared C. Winklmayr· 1 shared D. A. Wilhelm· 1 shared D. Bhat· 1 shared

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Changes in group size during resource shifts reveal drivers of sociality across the tree of life

A. B. Kao, A. K. Hund, F. P. Santos, J.-G. Young, D. Bhat, J. Garland, R. A. Oomen, H. F. McCreery

The paper presents a framework to identify drivers of sociality by analyzing how group size changes with resource shifts across species.

bioRxiv · Mar 17, 2020 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

The wisdom of stalemates: consensus and clustering as filtering mechanisms for improving collective accuracy

C. Winklmayr, A. B. Kao, J. B. Bak-Coleman, P. Romanczuk

The paper shows that stalemates in group decision-making can improve collective accuracy by filtering out incorrect decisions in both simple and complex environments.

bioRxiv · Jan 9, 2020Animal Behavior & Cognition

Counteracting estimation bias and social influence to improve the wisdom of crowds

A. B. Kao, A. M. Berdahl, A. T. Hartnett, M. J. Lutz, J. B. Bak-Coleman, C. C. Ioannou, X. Giam, I. D. Couzin

The paper improves collective estimation accuracy by addressing individual biases and social influence through new aggregation methods.

bioRxiv · Mar 24, 2018Animal Behavior & Cognition

Optimal construction of army ant living bridges

J. M. Graham, A. B. Kao, D. A. Wilhelm, S. Garnier

This paper extends a mathematical model of army ant living bridge construction to predict optimal formation and final configuration under various scenarios.

bioRxiv · Mar 14, 2017Animal Behavior & Cognition