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Understanding evacuation decision-making behaviour is one of the key components for designing disaster mitigation policies. This study investigates how communications between household agents in a community influence self-evacuation…

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Metro systems are part of major transportation systems for big cities. Evacuation is a key challenge for metro systems in case of fire or terrorist attacks. In case of evacuation, wheelchair-assisted evacuees might take a longer time. In…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-14 Tarapada Mandal , K. Ramachandra Rao , Geetam Tiwari

This research incorporates Bayesian game theory into pedestrian evacuation in an agent-based model. Three pedestrian behaviours were compared: Random Follow, Shortest Route and Bayesian Nash Equilibrium (BNE), as well as combinations of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yiyu Wang , Jiaqi Ge , Alexis Comber

Emergent effects can arise in multi-agent systems (MAS) where execution is decentralized and reliant on local information. These effects may range from minor deviations in behavior to catastrophic system failures. To formally define these…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Philipp Altmann , Julian Schönberger , Steffen Illium , Maximilian Zorn , Fabian Ritz , Tom Haider , Simon Burton , Thomas Gabor

The following is a write up of the progress of modeling data from the K12 organization \cite{Riedman_2023}. Data was characterized and investigated for statistically significant factors. The incident data was spilt into three sets: the…

Applications · Statistics 2024-05-29 Robert Hernandez , Linn Carothers

We introduce a kind of partial observability to the projective simulation (PS) learning method. It is done by adding a belief projection operator and an observability parameter to the original framework of the efficiency of the PS model. I…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Rasoul Kheiri

We present a novel method for testing the safety of self-driving vehicles in simulation. We propose an alternative to sensor simulation, as sensor simulation is expensive and has large domain gaps. Instead, we directly simulate the outputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Kelvin Wong , Qiang Zhang , Ming Liang , Bin Yang , Renjie Liao , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

With the recent advances in machine learning, creating agents that behave realistically in simulated air combat has become a growing field of interest. This survey explores the application of machine learning techniques for modeling air…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Patrick Ribu Gorton , Andreas Strand , Karsten Brathen

Agents built on vision-language models increasingly face tasks that demand anticipating future states rather than relying on short-horizon reasoning. Generative world models offer a promising remedy: agents could use them as external…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Cheng Qian , Emre Can Acikgoz , Bingxuan Li , Xiusi Chen , Yuji Zhang , Bingxiang He , Qinyu Luo , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Gokhan Tur , Yunzhu Li , Heng Ji

Extreme heat events are increasing in frequency and intensity under climate change, but the socio-behavioral mechanisms that shape community resilience remain insufficiently understood. This study uses a Large Language Model-enhanced…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-18 Yuanhao Liu , Yuanfei Liu , Tian Lu , Hengyang Zhang , Zuowei Wang , Ying Dai

To assess the possibility of evacuating a building in case of a fire, a standard method consists in simulating the propagation of fire, using finite difference methods and takes into account the random behavior of the fire, so that the…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-10 Rémi Stroh , Julien Bect , Séverine Demeyer , Nicolas Fischer , Emmanuel Vazquez

Multiagent reinforcement learning, as a prominent intelligent paradigm, enables collaborative decision-making within complex systems. However, existing approaches often rely on explicit action exchange between agents to evaluate action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Zhenglong Luo , Zhiyong Chen , Aoxiang Liu

The prediction quality of machine learnt models and the functionality they ultimately enable (e.g., object detection), is typically evaluated using a variety of quantitative metrics that are specified in the associated model performance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ganesh Pai

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…

Imitation can be viewed as a means of enhancing learning in multiagent environments. It augments an agent's ability to learn useful behaviors by making intelligent use of the knowledge implicit in behaviors demonstrated by cooperative…

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Individual prevention behaviors are a primary line of defense during the early stages of novel infectious disease outbreaks, yet their adoption is heterogeneous and difficult to forecast-especially when empirical data are scarce and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Lujia Bo , Mingxuan Chen , Youduo Chen , Xiaofan Gui , Jiang Bian , Chunyan Wang , Yi Liu

Mass casualty incidents (MCIs) overwhelm healthcare systems and demand rapid, accurate patient-hospital allocation decisions under extreme pressure. Here, we developed and validated a deep reinforcement learning-based decision-support AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zhaoxun "Lorenz" Liu , Wagner H. Souza , Jay Han , Amin Madani

As autonomous agents become more powerful and widely used, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure they behave safely and stay aligned with system goals, especially in multi-agent settings. Current systems often rely on agents…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sagar Tamang , Dibya Jyoti Bora

In many applications involving multi-agent system (MAS), it is imperative to test an experimental (Exp) autonomous agent in a high-fidelity simulator prior to its deployment to production, to avoid unexpected losses in the real-world. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Song Wei , Andrea Coletta , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Tucker Balch

With the increase of distance learning, in general, and e-learning, in particular, having a system capable of determining the engagement of students is of primordial importance, and one of the biggest challenges, both for teachers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Prabin Sharma , Shubham Joshi , Subash Gautam , Sneha Maharjan , Salik Ram Khanal , Manuel Cabral Reis , João Barroso , Vítor Manuel de Jesus Filipe