Review: From wireless sensor networks towards cyber physical systems
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Wireless networks in emergency management
Proceedings of the first ACM international workshop on Practical issues and applications in next generation wireless networks
Resilience and security of opportunistic communications for emergency evacuation
Proceedings of the 7th ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
Large scale simulation for human evacuation and rescue
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
Agent-oriented modeling and development of a system for crisis management
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
The EvacSim pedestrian evacuation agent model: development and validation
Proceedings of the 2013 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
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We describe a distributed simulation tool which addresses the unique needs for the simulation of emergency response scenarios. The simulation tool adopts the multi-agent paradigm, so as to facilitate the modelling of diverse and autonomous agents, and it provides mechanisms for the interaction of the entities that are being simulated. It operates in a distributed fashion to reduce the simulation time required for such large-scale systems. The simulation tool represents the individuals that need to be evacuated, the resources that contribute to the evacuation including human rescuers, and other active resources and entities which may include robots and which can autonomously interact with the environment and with each other and take individual or collaborative decisions. We illustrate the tool with an application and compare the results for both centralized and distributed execution. Our results also show the significant reduction in execution time that is achieved for different degrees of distribution of the simulator on multiple servers.