Authors:
Ilias Sakellariou
1
;
Petros Kefalas
2
and
Ioanna Stamatopoulou
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Macedonia, Greece
;
2
The University of Sheffield International Faculty, Greece
Keyword(s):
Emotional Agents, X-Machines, Formal Modelling, Simulation, Evacuation Modelling.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Bioinformatics
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Methodologies and Technologies
;
Operational Research
;
Simulation
Abstract:
Evacuation Simulation is recognised as an important tool for assessing design choices for urban areas. Although a number of approaches have been introduced, it is widely acceptable that such simulation scenarios demand modelling of emotional aspects of evacuees, and how these affect their behaviour. The present work, proposes that formal agent modelling based on eX-machines can rigorously define but also naturally lead to realistic simulations of such scenarios. eX-machines can model agent behaviour influenced by emotions, including
social aspects of emotions, such as emotion contagion. The developed formal model is refined to simulation code, that is able to visualise and simulate crowd believable behaviour.