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This paper introduces a crowd modeling and motion control approach that employs diffusion adaptation within an adaptive network. In the network, nodes collaboratively address specific estimation problems while simultaneously moving as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Zirui Wan , Saeid Sanei

Immersive rooms are increasingly popular augmented reality systems that support multi-agent interactions within a virtual world. However, despite extensive content creation and technological developments, insights about perceptually-driven…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jerry M. Huang , Stefan T. Radev

As cities evolve toward more complex and multimodal transportation systems, the need for human-centered multi-agent simulation tools has never been more urgent. Yet most existing platforms remain limited - they often separate different…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Shiva Azimi , Arash Tavakoli

Clogging raises as the principal phenomenon during many evacuation processes of pedestrians in a panic situation. As people push to escape from danger, compression forces may increase to harming levels. Many individuals might fall down,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-07 F. E. Cornes , G. A. Frank , C. O. Dorso

Simulation is a powerful tool to study the behavior of physical, environmental, and social systems under different conditions. Evacuation simulation can be used to estimate the required time for people to exit a building or evacuate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-23 Fardad Haghpanah , Judith Mitrani-Reiser , Benjamin W. Schafer

This contribution describes efforts to model the behavior of individual pedestrians and their interactions in crowds, which generate certain kinds of self-organized patterns of motion. Moreover, this article focusses on the dynamics of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-09 Dirk Helbing , Anders Johansson

This article investigates the pedestrian group as an emergent agent. The article explores empirical data to derive emergent agency and formation state spaces and outline recurring patterns of walking behavior. In this analysis, pedestrian…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-31 Saleh Albeaik , Mohamad Alrished , Faisal Alsallum

Crowd simulation, the study of the movement of multiple agents in complex environments, presents a unique application domain for machine learning. One challenge in crowd simulation is to imitate the movement of expert agents in highly dense…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Gang Qiao , Honglu Zhou , Mubbasir Kapadia , Sejong Yoon , Vladimir Pavlovic

Exploiting the efficiency and stability of Position-Based Dynamics (PBD), we introduce a novel crowd simulation method that runs at interactive rates for hundreds of thousands of agents. Our method enables the detailed modeling of per-agent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Tomer Weiss , Alan Litteneker , Chenfanfu Jiang , Demetri Terzopoulos

In this survey we consider mathematical models and methods recently developed to control crowd dynamics, with particular emphasis on egressing pedestrians. We focus on two control strategies: The first one consists in using special agents,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-05-25 Giacomo Albi , Emiliano Cristiani , Lorenzo Pareschi , Daniele Peri

This study integrates pedestrian flow characteristics to formulate a mesoscopic cellular automata model tailored for simulating evacuations in large-scale scenarios. Departing from the conventional planar grid cell division, the model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-20 Wei Lv , Jinghui Wang , Zhiming Fang , Dun Mao

Traffic jams on roadways, echo chambers on social media, crowds of moving pedestrians, and opinion dynamics during elections are all complex social systems. These applications may seem disparate, but some of the questions that they motivate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-18 Alexandria Volkening

Understanding the movement behaviours of individuals and the way they react to the external world is a key component of any problem that involves the modelling of human dynamics at a physical level. In particular, it is crucial to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gabriele Galatolo , Mirco Nanni

The motion of pedestrian crowds (e.g. for simulation of an evacuation situation) can be modeled as a multi-body system of self driven particles with repulsive interaction. We use a few simple situations to determine the simplest allowed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-12-04 B. Steffen

The aim of the Hermes project is the development of a computer simulation based on evacuation assistant to support security services in case of emergency in complex buildings and thus to improve safety at mass events. One goal of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-07-26 Jun Zhang , Wolfram Klingsch , Armin Seyfried

The influence of cohesion among members of dyads is investigated in scenarios characterized by uni-directional flow by means of a discrete model: a corridor and the egress from a room with a bottleneck of varying width are simulated. The…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Luca Crociani , Yiping Zeng , Andrea Gorrini , Giuseppe Vizzari , Weiguo Song

It is common for large crowds to gather to attend games, exhibitions, political rallies, and other events. Thus, careful designs and operational plans are made to ensure the safe, secure, and efficient movement of people in these crowded…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Tomoichi Takahashi

In this paper, we present a novel method to recognize the types of crowd movement from crowd trajectories using agent-based motion models (AMMs). Our idea is to apply a number of AMMs, referred to as exemplar-AMMs, to describe the crowd…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Wenxi Liu , Rynson W. H. Lau , Xiaogang Wang , Dinesh Manocha

Antagonistic crowd behaviors are often observed in cases of serious conflict. Antagonistic emotions, which is the typical psychological state of agents in different roles (i.e. cops, activists, and civilians) in crowd violent scenes, and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Chaochao Li , Pei Lv , Dinesh Manocha , Hua Wang , Yafei Li , Bing Zhou , Mingliang Xu

Multiagent social network simulations are an avenue that can bridge the communication gap between the public and private platforms in order to develop solutions to a complex array of issues relating to online safety. While there are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Aditya Surve , Archit Rathod , Mokshit Surana , Gautam Malpani , Aneesh Shamraj , Sainath Reddy Sankepally , Raghav Jain , Swapneel S Mehta