Title
Assessing learned models of fish schooling behavior
Abstract
Agent-based simulation is a valuable tool for validating the theoretical models biologists and ethologists use to explain animal behavior. By automating the process of constructing agent-based models (ABM) directly from observation data we can enable researchers to focus more of their time on the analysis of the behaviors and animals in question. We present experimental results using a modified version of (k) Nearest Neighbor to learn an executable model of fish schooling behavior from both synthetic data and tracking data of live juvenile Notemigonus Crysoleucas, and quantitatively asses the performance of the learned behavior. Our experiments illustrate that our method can successfully learn fish schooling, and provide an objective criteria for comparing competing biological theories of behavior.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.5555/2615731.2617510
AAMAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
fish schooling,observation data,fish schooling behavior,agent-based model,synthetic data,biological theory,animal behavior,nearest neighbor,agent-based simulation,theoretical models biologist
k-nearest neighbors algorithm,Agent-based model,Computer science,Animal behavior,Synthetic data,Tracking data,Theoretical models,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning,Executable
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Brian Hrolenok1113.01
Tucker R. Balch23163429.41