Evacuation during Violent Attacks: Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

Zhang Fa, Wang Songchun, Song Zhihua

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Abstract

In public open space there are often many civilians engaged in normal activities. Violent attack against civilians may lead to a large number of casualties. There is an urgent demand for a tool which could systematically explore the evacuation process of crowd under violent attacks. This paper presents the general characteristics of public open space and build an agent-based model of evacuation under violent attack. All the participants are classified into two types of agent, the civilians and the attackers, and there is complex interaction among them. First, the activity of civilians and attacker are described with a framework of finite state machine. Then, focusing on the attacker using a sharp instrument, this paper analyzes his target search strategy, and quantitatively model the killing range of sharp instruments. For civilians, their exit choice behavior is formulated based on discrete choice model, and the civilian's movement is calculated with an expanded social force model. Finally, the simulation platform is developed based on Anylogic. The simulation results of a typical scenario show that the platform could be used to study evacuation dynamics of crowd during violent attacks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICSESS 2018 - Proceedings of 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science
EditorsLi Wenzheng, M. Surendra Prasad Babu
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages412-415
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538665640
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jul 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event9th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science, ICSESS 2018 - Beijing, China
Duration: 23 Nov 201825 Nov 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Sciences, ICSESS
Volume2018-November
ISSN (Print)2327-0586
ISSN (Electronic)2327-0594

Conference

Conference9th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science, ICSESS 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period23/11/1825/11/18

Keywords

  • Crowd
  • Evacuation
  • Multi-agent simulation
  • Public space
  • Violent attack

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