The paper aims at comparing through theoretical experiments the Situated Cellular Agent (SCA) approach within pedestrian research dynamics context. In particular, we focus on two emerging patterns of pedestrians dynamics (i.e. freezing by heating and lane formation phenomena) that have been empirically observed in crowding situations and studied as self organizing phenomena. Although traditional approaches in this area (analytical particle-based models and Cellular Automata) have obtained successful results and are largely employed in applications to crowd management and architectural design, recently many efforts have been directed towards models based on Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) principles in order to overcome modelling expressiveness problems. The work presented in this paper aims at contributing to the research area focusing on MAS as an effective modelling approach for complex systems, providing an overview of the SCA modelling approach and its potential benefits to study crowds as complex systems, and showing its suitability through experimental comparisons.

Bandini, S., Federici, M., Manzoni, S. (2007). SCA approach to micro-scale modelling of paradigmatic emergent crowd behaviors. In Proceedings of the 2007 summer computer simulation conference (pp.1051-1056). Society for Computer Simulation International.

SCA approach to micro-scale modelling of paradigmatic emergent crowd behaviors

BANDINI, STEFANIA;FEDERICI, MIZAR LUCA;MANZONI, SARA LUCIA
2007

Abstract

The paper aims at comparing through theoretical experiments the Situated Cellular Agent (SCA) approach within pedestrian research dynamics context. In particular, we focus on two emerging patterns of pedestrians dynamics (i.e. freezing by heating and lane formation phenomena) that have been empirically observed in crowding situations and studied as self organizing phenomena. Although traditional approaches in this area (analytical particle-based models and Cellular Automata) have obtained successful results and are largely employed in applications to crowd management and architectural design, recently many efforts have been directed towards models based on Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) principles in order to overcome modelling expressiveness problems. The work presented in this paper aims at contributing to the research area focusing on MAS as an effective modelling approach for complex systems, providing an overview of the SCA modelling approach and its potential benefits to study crowds as complex systems, and showing its suitability through experimental comparisons.
mulriagent systems, crowds
English
Summer Computer Simulation Conference
2007
Proceedings of the 2007 summer computer simulation conference
1-56555-316-0
2007
1051
1056
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Bandini, S., Federici, M., Manzoni, S. (2007). SCA approach to micro-scale modelling of paradigmatic emergent crowd behaviors. In Proceedings of the 2007 summer computer simulation conference (pp.1051-1056). Society for Computer Simulation International.
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