  This paper presents a unified mathematical theory of swarms where the
dynamics of social behaviors interacts with the mechanical dynamics of
self-propelled particles. The term behavioral swarms is introduced to
characterize the specific object of the theory which is subsequently followed
by applications. As concrete examples for our unified approach, we show that
several Cucker-Smale type models with internal variables fall down to our
framework. Subsequently the modeling goes beyond the Cucker-Smale approach and
looks ahead to research perspectives.
