Crowd Evacuation Modeling and Simulation Using Care HPS

The problem of evacuating crowded closed spaces, such as discotheques, public exhibition pavilions or concert houses, has become increasingly important and gained attention both from practitioners and from public authorities. This kind of problem can be modeled using Agent-Based Model techniques and...

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Autores: Alghazzawi, Mohammed J., Tashakor, Ghazal, Borges, Francisco|||0000-0003-4951-0522, Suppi, Remo|||0000-0002-0373-8292
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:306151
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/306151
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.procs.2017.05.029
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Crowd Evacuation
Agent-Based Model
Parallel
Distributed Simulation
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Sumario:The problem of evacuating crowded closed spaces, such as discotheques, public exhibition pavilions or concert houses, has become increasingly important and gained attention both from practitioners and from public authorities. This kind of problem can be modeled using Agent-Based Model techniques and consequently simulated in order to study evacuation strategies. In this paper, we show the Fira of Barcelona evacuation model implemented with Care HPS. As a main contribution: i) we extend and added new partitioning approaches and other features in Care HPS to carry on this model; and ii) we figured out that crowd evacuation problem has bottlenecks in reality, such as exits, that required more deep optimization in code in order to decrease the total execution time. Finally, we draw some conclusions and point out ways in which this work can be further extended.