GridFlow: An object-oriented building evacuation model combining pre-movement and movement behaviours for performance-based design

Fire Safety Science

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 941-953

  Bensilum, Mark ^a   Purser, David ^a  

^a BUILDING RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Escape; Evacuation; Model; Pre movement; Travel

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES; BEHAVIOURAL SIMULATIONS; BUILDING EVACUATION; COMPLEX MODEL; COMPUTER-BASED MODELS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DISTANCE MAP; EMPIRICAL DATA; ESCAPE; ESCAPE ROUTE; EVACUATION; EVACUATION PROCESS; EVACUATION TIME; GRID NETWORK; IN-BUILDINGS; MOVEMENT BEHAVIOUR; OBJECT ORIENTED; PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGN; PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS; PRE-MOVEMENT; RULE BASED ALGORITHMS; TRAVEL; WALKING SPEED;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BUILDING COMPONENTS; MODELS; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84555195803     PISSN: 18174299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3801/IAFSS.FSS.7-941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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