Humanitarian Logistics and Cultural Diversity within Crowd Simulation

Authors

  • Carlos Alberto Ochoa Zezzatti Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ)
  • Isaac Rudomin
  • Genoveva Vargas Solar French Council of Scientific Research
  • Javier A. Espinosa-Oviedo Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
  • Hugo Pérez Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
  • José-Luis Zechinelli Martini Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla (UDLAP)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13053/cys-21-1-2583

Keywords:

Crowd simulation, efficient data management, multi-agent systems

Abstract

Human stampedes occur frequently because of abnormal events (e.g., a fire or explosion) produced in collective events (e.g., religious pilgrimages, music concerts and sportive events). These events provoke panic and when people are agglomerated they try to escape pushing each other without realizing that others are being crushed. Since crowds can consist of individuals with diverse physical and social characteristics determined by cultural diversity, it is difficult to configure the space in advance and find solutions in real-time to save people and reduce catastrophe. This paper proposes an approach to explore the impact of anthropometry and cultural diversity in the behaviour of crowds in panic situations. Our approach includes techniques for reproducing and simulating the behaviour of the crowd to generate models that can help decision making to control such situations. The main contribution of our work is to use computational science, data processing and visualization techniques to perform our simulation and study, for eventually supporting critical decision making.

Author Biographies

Carlos Alberto Ochoa Zezzatti, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ)

Genoveva Vargas Solar, French Council of Scientific Research

French Council of Scientific Research (CNRS)

Javier A. Espinosa-Oviedo, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Hugo Pérez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

José-Luis Zechinelli Martini, Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla (UDLAP)

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Published

2017-03-21

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 1 (2017): Thematic Issue: Topic Trends in Computing Research (Guest Editors: C.P. Ayala, S.N. González-Rocha)

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Articles of the Thematic Issue

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