Modeling people behavior in emergency situations

Abstract

A model of human behavior in emergency situations in confined spaces with a complex structure. A distinctive feature of this model is that the information influence of the behavior of agents in the group is individual. The level of exposure to the influence of the information agent depends on the type, based on some factors, such as location relative to the group members, the physical and functional characteristics of the individual membership. By the functional affiliation is meant the role of agent upon condition the absence of some external destructive influences. The proposed model describes four possible physical states of the agent: alive and active; alive and passive, wounded; received critical damage, unable to move; dead. The developed theoretical foundations models have been implemented in a software environment simulation by the example of incident in the club “Lame Horse” located in Perm, Russia, 05.12.2009. The experiments showed results corresponds to the actual outcome of the incident model operating results with considering the probability of deviations.

Keywords

• computer simulation
• people behavior
• information flow
• emergency situations