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Modeling human dynamics responsible for the formation and evolution of the so-called social networks - structures comprised of individuals or organizations and indicating connectivities existing in a community - is a topic recently…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Victor V. Kryssanov , Frank J. Rinaldo , Evgeny L. Kuleshov , Hitoshi Ogawa

We discuss several multi-agent models that have their origin in the kinetic exchange theory of statistical mechanics and have been recently applied to a variety of problems in the social sciences. This class of models can be easily adapted…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-18 Marco Patriarca , Anirban Chakraborti

Bridging the microscopic and macroscopic modelling scales in crowd dynamics constitutes an open challenge for systematic numerical analysis, optimization, and control. Here, we propose a manifold-informed machine learning approach to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hector Vargas Alvarez , Dimitrios G. Patsatzis , Lucia Russo , Ioannis Kevrekidis , Constantinos Siettos

The theoretical understanding of pattern formation in active systems remains a central problem of interest. Heterogeneous flocks made up of multiple species can exhibit a remarkable diversity of collective states that cannot be obtained…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-23 Eloise Lardet , Letian Chen , Thibault Bertrand

This paper mainly focuses on solving the dynamic optimization of the planar controlled crowd motion models with obstacles which is an application of a class of optimal control problems governed by a general perturbed nonconvex sweeping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Tan Cao , Boris Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen

Kinetic models for vehicular traffic are reviewed and considered from the point of view of deriving macroscopic equations. A derivation of the associated macroscopic traffic flow equations leads to different types of equations: in certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Raul Borsche , Axel Klar , Mark Kimathi

Robots operating in human-populated environments must navigate safely and efficiently while minimizing social disruption. Achieving this requires estimating crowd movement to avoid congested areas in real-time. Traditional microscopic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Maryam Kazemi Eskeri , Thomas Wiedemann , Ville Kyrki , Dominik Baumann , Tomasz Piotr Kucner

In this paper a comparison between first order microscopic and macroscopic differential models of crowd dynamics is established for an increasing number $N$ of pedestrians. The novelty is the fact of considering massive agents, namely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Alessandro Corbetta , Andrea Tosin

Understanding the dynamics of pedestrian crowds is an outstanding challenge crucial for designing efficient urban infrastructure and ensuring safe crowd management. To this end, both small-scale laboratory and large-scale real-world…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-18 Koen Minartz , Fleur Hendriks , Simon Martinus Koop , Alessandro Corbetta , Vlado Menkovski

We present a new class of macroscopic models for pedestrian flows. Each individual is assumed to move towards a fixed target, deviating from the best path according to the instantaneous crowd distribution. The resulting equation is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Rinaldo M. Colombo , Mauro Garavello , Magali Lécureux-Mercier

The aim of this paper is to develop a crowd motion model designed to handle highly packed situations. The model we propose rests on two principles: We first define a spontaneous velocity which corresponds to the velocity each individual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-01-09 Bertrand Maury , Juliette Venel

We present a novel approach to kinetic theory modeling enabling the simulation of a generic, real gas presented by its corresponding equation of state. The model is based on mass, momentum and energy conservation, and unlike the lattice…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-25 Ehsan Reyhanian , Benedikt Dorschner , Ilya Karlin

A most important aspect in the field of traffic modeling is the simulation of bottleneck situations. For their realistic description a macroscopic multi-lane model for uni-directional freeways including acceleration, deceleration, velocity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dirk Helbing

We present a micro-macro strategy able to describe the dynamics of crowds in heterogeneous media. Herein we focus on the example of pedestrian counterflow. The main working tools include the use of mass and porosity measures together with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-08 Joep Evers , Adrian Muntean

We introduce a mathematical description of the impact of sociality in the spread of infectious diseases by integrating an epidemiological dynamics with a kinetic modeling of population-based contacts. The kinetic description leads to study…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-02 G. Dimarco , B. Perthame , G. Toscani , M. Zanella

We present an unsupervised approach to analyze crowd at various levels of granularity $-$ individual, group and collective. We also propose a motion model to represent the collective motion of the crowd. The model captures the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Neha Bhargava , Subhasis Chaudhuri

The chapter presents some new approaches to describing the collective behavior of complex systems of mathematical biology based on the evolution equations of observables such as open systems. This representation of kinetic evolution has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 V. I. Gerasimenko

In this paper, we present a model describing the collective motion of birds. The model introduces spontaneous changes in direction which are initialized by few agents, here referred as leaders, whose influence act on their nearest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Giacomo Albi , Federica Ferrarese

This contribution shortly outlines and reviews a theoretical and computational approach for a theory of change concerning systems where it is not possible to apply the laws of motion ab initio. The concept of meta-structure relates to the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-10-02 Gianfranco Minati , Ignazio Licata , Eliano Pessa

We study kinetic models for traffic flow characterized by the property of producing backward propagating waves. These waves may be identified with the phenomenon of stop-and-go waves typically observed on highways. In particular, a refined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-10 M. Herty , G. Puppo , G. Visconti