State-of-the-art high-rise building emergency evacuation behavior

N Ding, T Chen, Y Zhu, Y Lu - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2021 - Elsevier
Emergency evacuation in case of an emergency is a crucial problem in high-rise buildings,
as many occupants are in a limited amount of space. To improve building safety design and …

Pedestrian evacuation simulation in indoor emergency situations: Approaches, models and tools

J Chen, T Shi, N Li - Safety science, 2021 - Elsevier
Pedestrian evacuation simulation (PES) provides a low-cost and low-risk method to facilitate
safety design and emergency management in indoor environment by describing pedestrian …

[HTML][HTML] Toward cognitive digital twins using a BIM-GIS asset management system for a diffused university

S Meschini, L Pellegrini, M Locatelli… - Frontiers in Built …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The integrated use of building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information
system (GIS) is promising for the development of asset management systems (AMSs) for …

Follow the evacuation signs or surrounding people during building evacuation, an experimental study

Y Zhu, T Chen, N Ding, M Chraibi, WC Fan - Physica A: Statistical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Evacuation signage plays a vital role in building evacuation. In order to test the efficiency of
evacuation signage, the traditional methods are video analysis and after-drill questionnaires …

Modelling human behaviours in disasters from interviews: application to Melbourne bushfires

C Adam, B Gaudou - Journal of Artificial Societies and Social …, 2017 - shs.hal.science
This paper describes a model for raising awareness of the real (irrational and subjective)
behaviours of the population in crisis situations. We analyse residents' statements and …

Optimized exit door locations for a safer emergency evacuation using crowd evacuation model and artificial bee colony optimization

N Khamis, H Selamat, FS Ismail, OF Lutfy… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Overcrowding during emergency evacuation can cause crowd stampede and trampling that
will lead to serious injuries or fatalities. These situations are likely to occur in natural or man …

Increasing awareness in classroom evacuation situations using agent-based modeling

C Delcea, LA Cotfas - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Educational properties have recorded an average of 4980 structure fires between 2011 and
2015 according to US National Fire Protection Association. It has been determined that four …

Modelling human network behaviour using simulation and optimization tools: the need for hybridization

A Gruler, J Armas Adrián, AA Juan… - SORT: statistics and …, 2019 - ddd.uab.cat
The inclusion of stakeholder behaviour in Operations Research/Industrial Engineering
(OR/IE) models has gained much attention in recent years. Behavioural and cognitive traits …

Incorporating individual behavior, knowledge, and roles in simulating evacuation

ML Chu, KH Law - Fire technology, 2019 - Springer
Emergency evacuation (egress) is an important issue in safety design of facilities and
buildings. Studies of past emergency events have highlighted the need to consider …

Cooperative survival principles for underground flooding: Vitae system based multi-agent simulation

E Higo, N Okada, KW Hipel, L Fang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2017 - Elsevier
Evacuation and rescue principles under life-threatening situations are clarified using a
simulation model designed with a Vitae System-based agent. The Vitae System model …