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A Crowd Model for Emergency and Panic Situations: Structure, Characteristics and Behaviours

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Multi-Agent Systems for Society (PRIMA 2005)

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We describe a crowd model in emergency and panic situations. First, we describe the crowd structure of our model that comprises a combination of group-based and individual-based agents. This is followed by a description on the agent’s characteristics and its behaviours for emergency and panic situations. Detailed descriptions on agent’s behaviours including graphical illustrations and pseudo-scripts are also given. Finally, we summarize the paper and discuss the future work on the implementation of the crowd model for emergency and panic situations.

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Ab Karim, M.B., Talib, A.Z., Ismail, A.I., Belaton, B. (2009). A Crowd Model for Emergency and Panic Situations: Structure, Characteristics and Behaviours. In: Lukose, D., Shi, Z. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems for Society. PRIMA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4078. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03339-1_15

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