Evacuation simulation in underground mall by artificial life technology

Author

Furuta, Hitoshi ; YASUI, Masahiro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, Kansai Univ., Osaka

fYear

2003

fDate

24-24 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

345

Lastpage

350

Abstract

A new simulation system is developed to consider the evacuation behavior in the underground mall during the disaster. So far, a lot of methods have been proposed to the simulation of evacuation process, whose models are based upon many and complex factors. For more accuracy, it is necessary to introduce new factors such as human psychological factors, visibility, and so on. However, when those models are applied to the real cases, some problems may arise on calculation time and accuracy. A new simulation model is proposed, which can express complex human behavior by a simple model that defines actions probabilistically by introducing artificial life technology

Keywords

artificial life; behavioural sciences computing; digital simulation; disasters; emergency services; probability; psychology; artificial life technology; disaster; emergency services; evacuation simulation; human behavior; human psychological factors; probability; underground mall; Accuracy; Boundary conditions; Feedback; Humans; Informatics; Psychology; Safety; Space technology; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, 2003. ISUMA 2003. Fourth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

College Park, MD

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1997-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISUMA.2003.1236184

Filename

1236184