Title

The Crowdsim Modeling Framework And Some Example Cases

Keywords

Agent; Crowd; Framework; Java; Pedestrian

Abstract

Pedestrian and crowd movement is currently a hot topic and the study and simulation of it is being driven by recent social and political happenings around the world. When there are gatherings of large numbers of people, sometimes disastrous problems occur: fires in clubs, riots at concerts, subway disasters, along with large gatherings, such as Independence Day celebrations at places like Boston or New York City. The SimMBioS Lab at the University of Central Florida has built the CROWDSim package to be an open source framework for investigating and developing pedestrian movement models. The CROWDSim framework was designed to serve as a common platform for developing and studying techniques for agent based simulation of pedestrians. Additionally the CROWDSim package provides common tools to be used for both pedestrian and other biological systems' movements in various environments. CROWDSim is a JAVA simulation framework built on top of the MASON Framework [Luke et al. 2003] developed by George Mason University. CROWDSim allows the construction of environments through an XML configuration file and is constructed using the simple shapes of rectangles and circles. The framework also contains loggers which can be added to the simulation to record data from the simulation. Files are included to aid in the implementation of social potential and cellular automata-based pedestrian models.

Publication Date

12-1-2008

Publication Title

Summer Computer Simulation Conference 2008, SCSC 2008, Part of the 2008 Summer Simulation Multiconference, SummerSim 2008

Number of Pages

23-30

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84870999280 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84870999280

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