The effect of collaborative behaviors in emergency evacuation

This work describes different evacuation scenarios and corresponding behaviors using a multi agent system. During the simulations there are multiple variations of the parameters, such as: the number of participating agents, the number of exits, the percentage of agents that know where the exits are, the layout where the experiments take place, and the behavior adopted by the agents. The study focuses on performing an in-depth investigation of the evacuation results from the perspective of collaborative and non-collaborative behaviors, analyzes how these two types of agents impact each other in such situations, and how the overall system utility depends on the distribution of the two populations.

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This work uses a multi agent system to describe different evacuation scenarios and behaviors, and investigates the impact of collaborative and non-collaborative behaviors on evacuation results.