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List of works by Massimiliano Viale

Collective behaviour without collective order in wild swarms of midges

scientific article

Diffusion of individual birds in starling flocks

scientific article published on 13 February 2013

Dynamic scaling in natural swarms

Emergence of collective changes in travel direction of starling flocks from individual birds' fluctuations

scientific article

Empirical investigation of starling flocks: a benchmark study in collective animal behaviour

Error control in the set-up of stereo camera systems for 3d animal tracking

Finite-size scaling as a way to probe near-criticality in natural swarms

scientific article published in December 2014

Flocking and Turning: a New Model for Self-organized Collective Motion

GReTA-A Novel Global and Recursive Tracking Algorithm in Three Dimensions

scientific article published on December 2015

Information transfer and behavioural inertia in starling flocks

scientific article published on September 2014

Interaction ruling animal collective behavior depends on topological rather than metric distance: evidence from a field study

scientific article

Local equilibrium in bird flocks

scientific article

Nonsymmetric Interactions Trigger Collective Swings in Globally Ordered Systems

scientific article published on 31 March 2017

Phase Transitions for the Cavity Approach to the Clique Problem on Random Graphs

Scale-free correlations in starling flocks

scientific article

Short-range interactions versus long-range correlations in bird flocks

scientific article published on 6 July 2015

Silent flocks: constraints on signal propagation across biological groups

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Social interactions dominate speed control in poising natural flocks near criticality

scientific article

Spatio-temporal correlations in models of collective motion ruled by different dynamical laws

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

Statistical mechanics for natural flocks of birds

scientific article published on 16 March 2012

The STARFLAG handbook on collective animal behaviour: 1. Empirical methods