A multi-agent based simulation framework for the study of human and social behavior in egress analysis

Proceedings of the 2005 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 969-980

  Pan, Xiaoshan ^a   Han, Charles S ^a   Law, Kincho H ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowd simulation; Egress; Emergencies; Human and social behavior; Multi agent system

Indexed keywords

CROWD SIMULATION; EGRESS; EMERGENCIES; HUMAN AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 27144538102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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