Disastrous situations, either natural or man-made, have claimed countless lives. In a
planning context, this triggers the need for an evacuation situation that involves the …

The article describes a multi-agent approach to crowd modeling and simulation. After a brief
introduction of the Situated Cellular Agents model, the guidelines to the crowd modeling …

Computer simulation of dense crowds is finding increased use in event planning, congestion
prediction, and threat assessment. State-of-the-art particle-based crowd methods assume …

Computer Vision-based smart surveillance systems are needed in the present era that can
analyse crowd events for behaviour assessment, activity and event recognition, anomaly …

The authors illustrate several issues in decision support and decision support systems
(DSS), state of the art research in these fields, and also their own studies in designing a …

This paper introduces a research activity aimed at the definition of a methodology to provide
a solid conceptual framework for the development of simulation systems focused on crowd …

In this work, we provide an approach for Modeling and Simulation (M&S) of crowds using
Cellular Discrete EVent System Specification (Cell-DEVS). We present many examples of …

The chemical-inspired programming approach is an emerging paradigm for defining the
behavior of densely distributed and context-aware devices (eg, in ecosystems of displays …

Pedestrian movements are a critical component that must be taken into account when one is
interested in planning and designing urban areas, buildings and large public spaces …

Crowd simulation demands careful consideration in regard to the classic trade-off between
accuracy and efficiency. Particle-based methods have seen success in various applications …