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Modeling Crowd Behavior in a Theater

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To manage emergencies, it is useful to be able to understand how crowds behave in case of incidents. We modeled, by means of Markovian Agents, the behavior of a crowd in a theater to evaluate the effects of a potentially catastrophic situation in a constrained space. The chosen modeling technique showed to be well fit to help and evaluate, given the nature of a space with significant obstacles and densely occupied by people, what kind of actions should be taken in advance to mitigate the damage in case of problems.

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  1. Dip. di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, via Ponzio 34/5, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Enrico Barbierato & Marco Gribaudo

  2. Dip. di Matematica e Fisica, Università degli Studi della Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, viale Lincoln 5, 81100, Caserta, Italy

    Mauro Iacono

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA, 22030-4444, USA

    Mauro Iacono & Alexander H. Levis

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  1. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy

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Barbierato, E., Gribaudo, M., Iacono, M., Levis, A.H. (2018). Modeling Crowd Behavior in a Theater. In: Balsamo, S., Marin, A., Vicario, E. (eds) New Frontiers in Quantitative Methods in Informatics. InfQ 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 825. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91632-3_4

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