The last decades, crowd simulation for crisis management is highlighted as an important
topic of interest for many scientific fields. As the continuous evolution of computational …

Individuals' safety in an earthquake highly depends on human reactions and emergency
behaviours, especially in first evacuation phases and in urban scenarios. To increase …

Europe has been subject to a significant increase in terrorist acts and their impact in recent
years. In this context, real-world events pointed out how the pedestrians' safety is …

Attachment theory is one of the most comprehensive frameworks in social and
developmental psychology. It describes how selective, enduring emotional bonds between …

Using convolutional neural networks we extend the work by Dugdale's group on socially
relevant multi-agent systems in crisis and emergency situations by giving the artificial agent …

Partial or total horizontal evacuation of populations in urban areas is an important protection
measure against a natural or technological risk. However, casualties during massive …

In this study we assessed logistic regression and machine learning models to explore their
performance in predicting evacuation decisions and to provide readers with insights into the …

To well understand crowd behavior, microscopic models have been developed in recent
decades, in which an individual's behavioral/psychological status can be modeled and …

The theory of social attachment states that individuals seek the proximity of attachment
figures (eg family members, friends, colleagues, familiar places or objects) when faced with …

At a time when the impacts of climate change and increasing urbanization are making risk
management more complex, there is an urgent need for tools to better support risk …