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Agent Evacuation Simulation Using a Hybrid Network and Free Space Models

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Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA 2009)

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The simulation of a large number of people’s evacuation behaviors is assumed to support the decision of rescue operations or prompt planning for disaster mitigation. Simulations of agents at wide areas with fine resolutions require a lot of computational resources and computer powers. We propose a hybrid traffic simulation combining network and area models to simulate agents’ behaviors. This paper presents that a hybrid traffic simulator had same results that have used all free space models. This indicates that our system can simulate behaviors a huge number of agents at wide areas with high resolutions by reasonable computational resources.

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  1. Meijo University, Tenpaku, Nagoya, 468-8501, Japan

    Masaru Okaya, Shigeru Yotsukura, Kei Sato & Tomoichi Takahashi

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  1. Masaru Okaya
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  1. School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, South Korea

    Jung-Jin Yang

  2. Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Department of Informatics, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, 819-0395, Fukuoka, Japan

    Makoto Yokoo

  3. School of Techno-Business Administration, Dept. of Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, 466-8555, Nagoya, Japan

    Takayuki Ito

  4. School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, 100871, Beijing, China

    Zhi Jin

  5. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Paul Scerri

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Okaya, M., Yotsukura, S., Sato, K., Takahashi, T. (2009). Agent Evacuation Simulation Using a Hybrid Network and Free Space Models. In: Yang, JJ., Yokoo, M., Ito, T., Jin, Z., Scerri, P. (eds) Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5925. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11161-7_42

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