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In gerneal, human behavior under emergency situation is considered as irrational behavior. However, recent research studies showed that evacuees had rational decision making process even though they said they were panic at that time. Evacuees behaved rationally based on information they could access at that moment and then selected the best option for response. This research is interested in relationship between human behavior and accessibility of informaiton under the restricted information situation, emergency in this case. We propose an ontology-based simulation framework as a tool to find out the relationship. Even though it is hard to claim that human will behave as same as the simulation outcome, we could study the relationship by observing trend and tendency of human behavior changes in the simulation by varying simulation parameters. For this purpose, the simulation models should be easy to modify. Then ontology plays a key component for this issue.
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Damrongrat, C., Ikeda, M. (2014). Ontology Based Simulation Framework: Studying of Human Behavior Changes Impacted by Accessibility of Information under Building Fire Emergency. In: Streitz, N., Markopoulos, P. (eds) Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions. DAPI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8530. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07788-8_24
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