TY - GEN
T1 - Civilian Characteristics and Casualties of Terrorist Attacks in Public Places
AU - Fa, Zhang
AU - Song-Chun, Wang
AU - Zhi-Hua, Song
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/6/22
Y1 - 2020/6/22
N2 - The crowds in public gathering places are densely populated. Once a violent terrorist attack occurs, it may cause a large number of civilian casualties. There are few researches on the dynamics of crowd in terrorist attacks, and the relationship between civilian characteristics and the consequences of attacks is unclear. We built an agent-based model of terrorist attacks in public gathering places, and explore the impact of the microscopic characteristics of civilians on the consequences of events. Firstly, we proposed a conceptual framework of terrorist attacks event occurred in public places. Then we constructed the agent models of two main groups: civilians and terrorists. We developed a multi-agent simulation system to investigate the dynamic of crowd under attacks in public space. Finally, we simulated the terrorist attacks in a city square to explore the relationship between civilian characteristics and the consequences of the event. The simulation results show that the observation range, risk sensitivity and emergency movement speed of civilians have a significant impact on the number of casualties.
AB - The crowds in public gathering places are densely populated. Once a violent terrorist attack occurs, it may cause a large number of civilian casualties. There are few researches on the dynamics of crowd in terrorist attacks, and the relationship between civilian characteristics and the consequences of attacks is unclear. We built an agent-based model of terrorist attacks in public gathering places, and explore the impact of the microscopic characteristics of civilians on the consequences of events. Firstly, we proposed a conceptual framework of terrorist attacks event occurred in public places. Then we constructed the agent models of two main groups: civilians and terrorists. We developed a multi-agent simulation system to investigate the dynamic of crowd under attacks in public space. Finally, we simulated the terrorist attacks in a city square to explore the relationship between civilian characteristics and the consequences of the event. The simulation results show that the observation range, risk sensitivity and emergency movement speed of civilians have a significant impact on the number of casualties.
KW - Civilian
KW - Public space
KW - Simulation
KW - Terrorist attack
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091976196&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3408066.3408070
DO - 10.1145/3408066.3408070
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091976196
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 109
EP - 114
BT - Proceedings of ICCMS 2020 - 12th International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation and ICICA 2020 - 9th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 12th International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation, ICCMS 2020 and the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Applications. ICICA 2020
Y2 - 22 June 2020 through 24 June 2020
ER -
