Agent-Based emergency evacuation simulation with individuals with disabilities in the population

JASSS

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Christensen, Keith ^a   Sasaki, Yuya ^a  

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Author keywords

Agent Based Simulation; Disability; Emergency Egress; Evacuation; Individual Based Simulation; Reinforcement Learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049084788     PISSN: 14607425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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