Big Questions

• How do we capture and analyze the micro-social behavioral and spatial-temporal signatures of complex evolving social groups that periodically form and disband?
  
  

• What are the rules that characterize these critical interactions and can they be described well enough to reproduce the observed patterns using computer simulation?
  
  

• How does sociality come into being?
  
  
  • When and How?
    
    
  • What is its form?
    
    
    • Behavioral composition and configuration
      
      
  • How does it change?
    
    
    • Probabilistic distribution