Abstract
An automatic evacuation management system taking advantage of a multi agent based mass evacuation simulator is proposed and prototyped. The aim of this system is to provide a stepping stone in the direction of automated evacuation managing. The proposed system is currently capable of identifying evacuation anomalies, proposing a mitigation strategy and providing feedback for human expert evaluation and query. All the pieces although seamlessly connected are independently developed. This allows their independent improvement and evaluation. This paper provides an overview of the developed automatic evacuation management system and all of its components, a demonstrative example, and discussion of its current limitations and future development direction. The demonstrative example shows increases of more than \(10\,\%\) in the evacuation throughput by using the proposed system.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Liu, H.X., Ban, J.X., Ma, W., Mirchandani, P.B.: Model reference adaptive control framework for real-time traffic management under emergency evacuation. J. Urban Plan. Dev. 133, 43–50 (2007)
Jihua, H.U., Jiaxian, L., Guoyuan, L.I., Lixiao, G.A.O.: A traffic assignment method of urgent dispersion under road flooding. In: Proceedings of the Transportation Information and Safety Conference (ICTIS), pp. 288–294 (2015)
Melgar, L.E.A., Lalith, M., Hori, M., Ichimura, T., Tanaka, S.: A scalable workbench for large urban area simulations, comprised of resources for behavioural models, interactions and dynamic environments. In: Dam, H.K., Pitt, J., Xu, Y., Governatori, G., Ito, T. (eds.) PRIMA 2014. LNCS, vol. 8861, pp. 166–181. Springer, Heidelberg (2014)
Leonel, A., Lalith, W., Tsuyoshi, I., Hori, M., Seizo, T.: Mixed mode large urban area tsunami evacuation considering car-pedestrian interactions. J. Jpn. Soc. Civ. Eng. Ser. A2 (Appl. Mech. Pap. vol. 18) 71, 633–641 (2015)
Gunawan, L.T., Fitrianie, S., Yang, C.-K., Brinkman, W.-P., Neerincx, M.A.: TravelThrough: a participatory-based guidance system for traveling through disaster areas. In: CHI 2012: CHI 2012 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2012)
Pournaras, E., Nikolic, J., Velasquez, P., Trovati, M., Bessis, N., Helbing, D.: Self-regulatory information sharing in participatory social sensing. Eur. Phys. J. Data Sci. 5, 14 (2016)
Jiang, S., Ferreira Jr., J., Gonzalez, M.C.: Activity-Based Human Mobility Patterns Inferred from Mobile Phone Data: A Case Study of Singapore. ACM KDD UrbComp (2015)
Wijerathne, M.L., Melgar, L.A., Hori, M., Ichimura, T., Tanaka, S.: HPC enhanced large urban area evacuation simulations with vision based autonomously navigating multiagents. Procedia Comput. Sci. 18, 1515–1524 (2013)
Melgar, L.E.A., Lakshman, W.M.L., Hori, M., Ichimura, T., Tanaka, S.: On the development of an MAS based evacuation simulation system: autonomous navigation and collision avoidance. In: Boella, G., Elkind, E., Savarimuthu, B.T.R., Dignum, F., Purvis, M.K. (eds.) PRIMA 2013. LNCS, vol. 8291, pp. 388–395. Springer, Heidelberg (2013)
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24760359. Parts of the results are obtained using K computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Aguilar, L., Lalith, M., Ichimura, T., Hori, M. (2016). Automatic Evacuation Management Using a Multi Agent System and Parallel Meta-Heuristic Search. In: Baldoni, M., Chopra, A., Son, T., Hirayama, K., Torroni, P. (eds) PRIMA 2016: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9862. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44832-9_26
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44832-9_26
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-44831-2
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-44832-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)