Agent-based simulations: Designing interior layout of an emporium for emergency evacuation

We use agent-based simulations to study emergency evacuation in buildings, and design the interior layout of buildings. We build an abstract scene for the first floor of an emporium in Changsha city in China. The scene includes eight rooms and various objects. We build grid-based environmental models and heterogeneous agent models. Then we conduct simulation experiments to evaluate the performance of two scenes for emergency evacuation, initial scene and optimized scene. Through statistic analysis, we conclude that optimized scene performs better for emergency evacuation than initial scene.