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This paper works on one of the most recent pedestrian crowd evacuation models, i.e., "a simulation model for pedestrian crowd evacuation based on various AI techniques", developed in late 2019. This study adds a new feature to the developed…

Crowd evacuation simulation is critical for enhancing public safety, and demanded for realistic virtual environments. Current mainstream evacuation models overlook the complex human behaviors that occur during evacuation, such as pedestrian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xiaolin Liu , Tianyi Zhou , Hongbo Kang , Jian Ma , Ziwen Wang , Jing Huang , Wenguo Weng , Yu-Kun Lai , Kun Li

This article introduces a simulation platform to study complex crowd behavior in social context. The agent-based model is extended based on the social force model, and it mainly describes how agents interact with each other, and also with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-01-17 Peng Wang , Xiaoda Wang , Peter Luh , Neal Olderman , Christian Wilkie , Timo Korhonen

Crowd simulation is a research area widely used in diverse fields, including gaming and security, assessing virtual agent movements through metrics like time to reach their goals, speed, trajectories, and densities. This is relevant for…

In case of a threat in a public space, the crowd in it should be moved to a shelter or evacuated without delays. Risk management and evacuation planning in public spaces should also take into account uncertainties in the traffic patterns of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-31 Anton von Schantz , Harri Ehtamo , Simo Hostikka

This article introduces a modeling framework to characterize evacuee response to environmental stimuli during emergency egress. The model is developed in consistency with stress theory, which explains how an organism reacts to environmental…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-23 Peng N. Wang , Xiaoda Wang , Peter B. Luh , Christian Wilkie , Timo Korhonen , Neal Olderman

This paper attempts to design an intelligent simulation model for pedestrian crowd evacuation. For this purpose, the cellular automata(CA) was fully integrated with fuzzy logic, the kth nearest neighbors (KNN), and some statistical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Danial A. Muhammed , Soran A. M. Saeed , Tarik A. Rashid

Several simulation environments exist for the simulation of large-scale evacuations of buildings, ships, or other enclosed spaces. These offer sophisticated tools for the study of human behaviour, the recreation of environmental factors…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2008-05-06 Peter J. Harding , Martyn Amos , Steve Gwynne

Understanding the collective dynamics of crowd movements during stressful emergency situations is central to reducing the risk of deadly crowd disasters. Yet, their systematic experimental study remains a challenging open problem due to…

In recent years modelling crowd and evacuation dynamics has become very important, with increasing huge numbers of people gathering around the world for many reasons and events. The fact that our global population grows dramatically every…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-01-28 Mohamed H. Dridi

As the population of world is increasing, and even more concentrated in urban areas, ensuring public safety is becoming a taunting job for security personnel and crowd managers. Mass events like sports, festivals, concerts, political…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Sultan Daud Khan , Muhammad Saqib , Michael Blumenstein

Emergency evacuation describes a complex situation involving time-critical decision-making by evacuees. Mobile robots are being actively explored as a potential solution to provide timely guidance. In this work, we study a robot-guided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Tongjia Zheng , Zhenyuan Yuan , Mollik Nayyar , Alan R. Wagner , Minghui Zhu , Hai Lin

Modeling and simulation approaches that express crowd movement with mathematical models are widely and actively studied to understand crowd movement and resolve crowd accidents. Existing literature on crowd modeling focuses on only the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Ryo Nishida , Masaki Onishi , Koichi Hashimoto

In an emergency situation, the evacuation of a large crowd from a complex building can become slow or even dangerous without a working evacuation plan. The use of rescue guides that lead the crowd out of the building can improve the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-23 Anton von Schantz , Harri Ehtamo

Crowd movement guidance has been a fascinating problem in various fields, such as easing traffic congestion in unusual events and evacuating people from an emergency-affected area. To grab the reins of crowds, there has been considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Koh Takeuchi , Ryo Nishida , Hisashi Kashima , Masaki Onishi

Large-scale controlled evacuations require emergency services to select evacuation routes, decide departure times, and mobilize resources to issue orders, all under strict time constraints. Existing algorithms almost always allow for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Caroline Even , Andreas Schutt , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Crowd density level estimation is an essential aspect of crowd safety since it helps to identify areas of probable overcrowding and required conditions. Nowadays, AI systems can help in various sectors. Here for safety purposes or many for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Mahira Arefin , Md. Anwar Hussen Wadud , Anichur Rahman

In the event of a disaster, saving human lives is of utmost importance. For developing proper evacuation procedures and guidance systems, behavioural data on how people respond during panic and stress is crucial. In the absence of real…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Rohit K. Dubey , Samuel S. Sohn , Christoph Hoelscher , Mubbasir Kapadia

Environments such as shopping malls, airports, or hospital emergency departments often experience crowding, with many people simultaneously requesting service. Crowding is highly noisy, with sudden overcrowding "spikes". Past research has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-16 Gil Parnass , Osnat Levtzion-Korach , Renana Peres , Michael Assaf

Predicting the behavior of crowds in complex environments is a key requirement in a multitude of application areas, including crowd and disaster management, architectural design, and urban planning. Given a crowd's immediate state, current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Samuel S. Sohn , Seonghyeon Moon , Honglu Zhou , Sejong Yoon , Vladimir Pavlovic , Mubbasir Kapadia
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