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Author: Akira Tsurushima

Affiliation: SECOM CO., LTD., Intelligent Systems Laboratory, 8-10-16 Shimorenjaku, Mitaka, Tokyo and Japan

Keyword(s): Response Threshold Model, Exit Choice, Evacuation, Herd Behavior.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Agents ; Artificial Intelligence ; Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems ; Bioinformatics ; Biomedical Engineering ; Distributed and Mobile Software Systems ; Enterprise Information Systems ; Information Systems Analysis and Specification ; Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development ; Knowledge-Based Systems ; Methodologies and Technologies ; Multi-Agent Systems ; Operational Research ; Self Organizing Systems ; Simulation ; Software Engineering ; Symbolic Systems

Abstract: When people evacuate from a room with two identical exits, it is known that these exits are often unequally used, with evacuees gathering at one of them. This inappropriate and irrational behavior sometimes results in serious loss of life. In this paper, this symmetry breaking in exit choice is discussed from the viewpoint of herding, a cognitive bias in humans during disaster evacuations. The aim of this paper is to show that the origin of symmetry breaking in exit choice is simple herd behavior, whereas many models in the literature consider the exit choice decisions either as panic or rational behavior. The evacuation decision model, based on the response threshold model in biology, is presented to reproduce human herd behavior. Simulation with the evacuation decision model shows that almost all agents gather at one exit at some frequency, despite individual agents choosing the exit randomly.

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Tsurushima, A. (2019). Reproducing Symmetry Breaking in Exit Choice under Emergency Evacuation Situation using Response Threshold Model. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART; ISBN 978-989-758-350-6; ISSN 2184-433X, SciTePress, pages 31-41. DOI: 10.5220/0007256000310041

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title={Reproducing Symmetry Breaking in Exit Choice under Emergency Evacuation Situation using Response Threshold Model},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART},
year={2019},
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TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART
TI - Reproducing Symmetry Breaking in Exit Choice under Emergency Evacuation Situation using Response Threshold Model
SN - 978-989-758-350-6
IS - 2184-433X
AU - Tsurushima, A.
PY - 2019
SP - 31
EP - 41
DO - 10.5220/0007256000310041
PB - SciTePress