AvatarSim: A multi-agent system for emergency evacuation simulation

Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 13-22

  Sharma, Sharad ^a  

^a BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral modeling; Evacuation simulation; Intelligent agents; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

AGENT-ORIENTED; BEHAVIORAL MODELING; BEHAVIORAL PARAMETERS; EMERGENCY EVACUATION; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EVACUATION DRILL; EVACUATION SIMULATION; MULTI-AGENT ENVIRONMENT; REAL TIME; VIRTUAL EXPERIMENTS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449715392     PISSN: 14727978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JCM-2009-0232     Document Type: Article

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