Towards realistic and effective agent-based models of crowd dynamics

J Wąs, R Lubaś - Neurocomputing, 2014 - Elsevier
The authors propose a new methodology for creating realistic and effective models of crowd
dynamics, which takes into account the Agent-based approach combined with non …

An agent-based model of crowd evacuation: combining individual, social and technological aspects

K Zia, A Ferscha - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSIM conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Development of crowd evacuation systems is a challenge due to involvement of complex
interrelated aspects, diversity of involved individuals and/or environment, and lack of direct …

An agent-based parallel geo-simulation of urban mobility during city-scale evacuation

K Zia, K Farrahi, A Riener, A Ferscha - Simulation, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The simulation of urban mobility is a modeling challenge due to the complexity and scale.
The complexity in modeling a social agent is due to three reasons:(i) the agent is …

Symmetry breaking in evacuation exit choice: impacts of cognitive bias and physical factor on evacuation decision

A Tsurushima - Agents and Artificial Intelligence: 11th International …, 2019 - Springer
When people evacuate from a room with two identical exits, it is known that these exits are
often unequally used, with evacuees gathering at one of them. This inappropriate and …

Predicting social density in mass events to prevent crowd disasters

B Anzengruber, D Pianini, J Nieminen… - Social Informatics: 5th …, 2013 - Springer
Human mobility behavior emerging in social events involving huge masses of individuals
bears potential hazards for irrational social densities. We study the emergence of such …

On the effectiveness of multi-feature evacuation systems: an agent-based exploratory simulation study

K Zia, U Farooq, M Shafi, A Ferscha - PeerJ Computer Science, 2021 - peerj.com
Evacuation modeling and simulation are usually used to explore different possibilities for
evacuation, however, it is a real challenge to integrate different categories of characteristics …

Agent-based model of mass campus shooting: Comparing hiding and moving of civilians

P Lu, D Chen, Y Li, X Wang, S Yu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The follow-up impact of the campus shooting incident is enormous. Due to a large number of
minors (vulnerable groups) and complex building environments, the school is one of the …

[PDF][PDF] Reproducing Symmetry Breaking in Exit Choice under Emergency Evacuation Situation using Response Threshold Model.

A Tsurushima - ICAART (1), 2019 - scitepress.org
When people evacuate from a room with two identical exits, it is known that these exits are
often unequally used, with evacuees gathering at one of them. This inappropriate and …

Modeling human factors influencing herding during evacuation

M Zafar, K Zia, DK Saini, A Muhammad… - International Journal of …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose It has been witnessed that many incidents of crowd evacuation have resulted in
catastrophic results, claiming lives of hundreds of people. Most of these incidents were a …

Review of computer based approaches for modeling and simulating critical infrastructures as Socio-Technical Systems

F Landegren, J Johansson… - Safety, Reliability and …, 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The paper presents a review of the scientific literature on computer modeling of
sociotechnical systems. The aim is to briefly review and discuss modeling approaches that …