Journal
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SENSORS & MODELS IN REMOTE SENSING & PHOTOGRAMMETRY
Volume 41, Issue W5, Pages 193-196Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XL-1-W5-193-2015
Keywords
Evacuation; Agent-based simulation; Emotion Contagion; GIS; Emergency
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During emergencies, emotions greatly affect human behaviour. For more realistic multi-agent systems in simulations of emergency evacuations, it is important to incorporate emotions and their effects on the agents. In few words, emotional contagion is a process in which a person or group influences the emotions or behavior of another person or group through the conscious or unconscious induction of emotion states and behavioral attitudes. In this study, we simulate an emergency situation in an open square area with three exits considering Adults and Children agents with different behavior. Also, Security agents are considered in order to guide Adults and Children for finding the exits and be calm. Six levels of emotion levels are considered for each agent in different scenarios and situations. The agent-based simulated model initialize with the random scattering of agent populations and then when an alarm occurs, each agent react to the situation based on its and neighbors current circumstances. The main goal of each agent is firstly to find the exit, and then help other agents to find their ways. Numbers of exited agents along with their emotion levels and damaged agents are compared in different scenarios with different initialization in order to evaluate the achieved results of the simulated model. NetLogo 5.2 is used as the multi-agent simulation framework with R language as the developing language.
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