Crowd evacuation simulations are useful tools for analyzing and assessing the safety of building occupants. Agent-based simulations provide a platform for computing individual as well as and collective behaviors in crowds. During an evacuation, it is well known that trained leaders or evacuation guides play a key role in saving human lives. In this paper, we propose an evacuation simulation sys...

Robustness is vital in some scheduling and temporal planning problems, such as evacuation planning (Even, Pillac, and Hentenryck 2014). However, it is hard to measure robustness directly, so some metrics measuring relative features have been introduced (e.g., Cesta, Oddi, and Smith 1998; Aloulou and Portmann 2003; Wilson et al. 2014), as well as algorithms for finding high-robustness schedules ...

For the emergency evacuation of cruise ships in case sudden fire, this research proposes a dynamic route optimization method based on improved A∗ algorithm for real-time information, order to obtain optimal route. Initially, basic network topology diagram is established according internal structure ship. Before occurrence accident, can be applied an priori consisting all routes from each node e...

Dynamic network flow problems have wide applications in evacuation planning. From a given subset of arcs directed network, choosing the suitable for facility location with objective is very important optimization emergency cases. Because decrease capacity an arc by placing it, there may be reduction maximum or increase quickest time. In this work, we consider proble...

Proper emergency evacuation planning is a key to ensuring the safety and efficiency of resources allocation in disaster events. An efficient plan can save human lives avoid other effects disasters. To develop effective plans, this study proposed multi-objective optimization model that assigns individuals shelters through safe routes during available periods. The main objective minimize total tr...

This paper describes HICAP, a general purpose planning architecture that we have developed and applied to assist military commanders and their sta with planning NEOs (Noncombatant Evacuation Operations). HICAP integrates a hierarchical task editor, HTE, with a conversational casebased planner, NaCoDAE/HTN. In this application, HTE maintains an agenda of tactical planning tasks that, according t...