A new opportunity to urban evacuation analysis: Very large scale simulations of social agent systems in repast HPC

Proceedings - 2012 ACM/IEEE/SCS 26th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, PADS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 233-242

  Zia, Kashif ^a   Riener, Andreas ^a   Farrahi, Katayoun ^a   Ferscha, Alois ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computational Social Science; Large scale Agent based Modeling; Parallel and Distributed Simulation; Urban Evacuation

Indexed keywords

AGENT INTERACTION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; AGENT-BASED MODELING; COMPLEX SIMULATION; COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; EVACUATION ANALYSIS; EVACUATION MODELS; EVACUATION STRATEGY; INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR; INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING; LARGE CITIES; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MOBILITY PATTERN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT ACCIDENT; PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION; POPULATION DENSITIES; SHARED-MEMORY MULTIPROCESSOR SERVERS; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL AGENT SYSTEMS; SOCIAL AGENTS; URBAN EVACUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISASTERS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84869400866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PADS.2012.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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