Crowd behaviour deviates from normal when an emergency evacuation is needed. Thus,
simulation of evacuation situations has been identified as an important tool for assessing …

This chapter presents the latest stage of the FLAME development—the high-performance
environment FLAME-II and the parallel architecture designed for Graphics Processing Units …

Although agent based modelling has drawn significant attention in the recent years, with a
significant number of simulation platforms proposed, the latter target usually relatively simple …

There is an increasing interest in modelling of agents interacting as crowd and a simulation
of such scenarios that map to real-life situations. This paper presents a generic state-based …

Evacuation Simulation is recognised as an important tool for assessing design choices for
urban areas. Although a number of approaches have been introduced, it is widely …

Agent based modeling and simulation (ABMS) has been applied to a number of research
areas includingeconomics, social sciences, urban planning, epidemiology etc. with …

A grid is described as a distributed network which comprises of heterogeneous and non-
dedicated elements. The heterogeneity of a grid is not only defined in terms of computing …

Cette thèse de doctorat n'aurait pu voir le jour sans l'extrême attention et le suivi constant de
Mme M. Clavel-Lévêque, qui a été ma directrice de thèse jusqu'en décembre 2005. Je tiens …

Undoubtedly, agent based modelling and simulation (ABMS) has been recognised as a
promising technique for studying complex phenomena. Due to the attention that it has …

In recent years, agent-based simulation has been successfully utilized in studying various
economic phenomena. Those research results focus on modeling and simulation of …