Collective decision-making plays a central part in the lives of many social animals. Two important factors that influence collective decision-making are information uncertainty and conflicting preferences. Here, I bring together, and briefly review, basic models relating to animal collective decision-making in situations with information uncertainty and in situations with conflicting preference...

A conceptual experimental framework for 0-theory m d the possibility form of fuzzy set theory is presented. The framework is probabilistic and derived from experimental measurements of evidential support. It is used to quantify the probabilistic masses needed in 0-theory and the membership functions used in fuzzy set theory. Instances in which these two different representations of the same exp...

Many multiagent systems require allocation of agents to tasks in order to ensure successful task execution. Most systems that perform this allocation assume that the quantity of agents needed for a task is known beforehand. Coalition formation approaches relax this assumption, allowing multiple agents to be dynamically assigned. Unfortunately, many current approaches to coalition formation lack...