Title
Modeling human factors influencing herding during evacuation.
Abstract
PurposeIt has been witnessed that many incidents of crowd evacuation have resulted in catastrophic results, claiming lives of hundreds of people. Most of these incidents were a result of localized herding that eventually turned into global panic. Many crowd evacuation models have been proposed with different aspects of interests. The purpose of this paper is to attempt to bring together many of these aspects to study evacuation dynamics.Design/methodology/approachThe proposed agent-based model, in a hypothetical physical environment, uses perception maps for routing decisions which are constructed from agents’ personal observations of the surroundings as well as information gathered through distant communication. Communication is governed by a trust model which measures the authenticity of the information being shared. Agents are of two types; emotional and rational. The trust model is combined with a game-theoretic model to resolve conflict of agents’ own type with that of types of agents in the neighborhood.FindingsEvacuation dynamics in different environmental and exit strategies are evaluated on the basis of reduced herding and evacuation time. Using this integrated information sharing model, agents gain an overall view of the environment, sufficient to select the optimal path towards exits with respect to reduced herding and evacuation time.Originality/valueThe proposed model has been formulated and established using an agent-based simulation integrating important modeling aspects. The paper helps in understanding the interplay between technological and humanistic aspects in smart and pervasive environments.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
Int. J. Pervasive Computing and Communications
Data science,Ambient intelligence,Computer security,Computer science,Crowd evacuation,Originality,Herding,Perception,Exit strategy,Information sharing,Distributed computing
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
13
2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
13
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Muzna Zafar100.68
Kashif Zia211722.98
Dinesh Kumar Saini37713.82
Muhammad U. Arshad46724.16
Alois Ferscha541.51