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Mapping the knowledge domain of soft computing applications for emergency evacuation studies
A scientometric analysis and critical review
Emergency evacuation is viewed as a common strategy adopted during the disaster preparedness stage of evacuation to ensure the safety of potentially affected populations. In emergency evacuation studies, soft computing approaches and methodologies have been widely used to support
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Evacuation behaviors and emergency communications
An analysis of real-world incident videos
Emergencies such as fires and terrorist attacks pose risks of injuries and fatalities, which can be exacerbated by delayed, ill-informed, or unmanaged responses. Effective emergency communication strategies could be used to better inform people and reduce these risks. This resear
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Impact of Leader-Follower Behavior on Evacuation Performance
An Exploratory Modeling Approach
Different leader-follower behaviors may be observed in models, such as group gathering, backtracking, and changing between groups. However, a comparison of these behaviors resulting in possible substantially different estimates of optimal evacuation procedures is lacking. Hence,
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The Influence of National Culture on Evacuation Response Behaviour and Time
An Agent-Based Approach
“How does culture, in combination with cues, settings and affiliation, influence response-phase behaviour and time and total evacuation time?”. A questionnaire and an agent-based model for a case study of a library evacuation in Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey and the UK have been
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Talk that Talk
Design and evaluation of a persuasive card game against sexually transgressive behaviour
Sexually transgressive behaviour (STB) causes serious problems for, among others, students of higher education. The persuasive card game TALK THAT TALK was designed to promote ethical bystander behaviour in STB situa-tions and contribute to a social transition to less sexual viol
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According to the Department of Energy, demand response provides an opportunity for end-users to play a significant role in the efficiency, reliability, resilience, and sustainability of a power grid. This is made possible owing to the existence of storage devices and diversity of
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In order to explore impacts of crowd intervention strategies on indoor respiratory exposure risks during major pandemics, a variety of crowd motion scenarios were established in general indoor conditions based on improved pedestrian dynamics model and respiratory infection probab
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Emergency services and utilities need appropriate planning tools to analyze and improve infrastructure and community resilience to disasters. Recognized as a key metric of community resilience is the social well-being of a community during a disaster, which is made up of mental a
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Impact of leader-follower behavior on evacuation performance
An exploratory modeling approach
Different leader-follower behavior may be observed in models, such as group gathering, backtracking, and flexibility of the group. However, a comparison of these behaviors resulting in possible substantially different estimates of optimal evacuation procedures is lacking. Hence,
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The Role Of The EU In Encouraging Sustainable Protein Consumption
An Agent-Based Model On The Effect Of Social Norms On Reducing Meat Consumption in the Netherlands
The IPCC report of August 2021 calls for an immediately reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Without changing the world’s diets, even if we stop all fossil fuel emissions today, we would still not be able to maintain global warming below 1.5°C. The EU has set out their strategy
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Organizational Impact on Project Team Efficiency
How simulations can help create a productive and efficient environment
This research tries to quantitatively identify the relation between team composition, organization structure, communication and team efficiency. The study takes a model-based approach to reach its objective. This research stresses the utility of agent-based modeling as a tool to
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Trafficking and Trust
Understanding the role of trust in a criminal supply chain
Trust has been identified in previous research as an important factor in criminals their decision-making when smuggling illegal goods. This research utilizes a case study of the criminal supply chain from South America to the port of Rotterdam, for simulating the relevance of tru
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Understanding group behaviour during evacuations inside buildings
An exploratory agent-based modelling approach
Over the last decades, the world population has grown vastly and the percentage of people living in cities has increased. This process of urbanization has had a lot of implications for both safety management and research on evacuations. Due to this growth in urbanization, more hi
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Determining effective evacuation strategies based on WiFi data in Buildings
An exploratory data-driven and agent-based evacuation modeling approach
Evacuation strategies are critical in preventing casualties during emergency evacuations in buildings. As large-scale gatherings and high crowd densities in buildings occur more often, the need of relevant and effective evacuation strategies emerges. However, the domain of resear
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Prospective Criminal Escape Routes
An Exploration of Fugitive Escape Route Decision-Making using a Dual-Process Approach
The negatives effects of criminals are a threat to the Dutch society. In 2019, 15 percent of the Dutch citizens are victims of High Impact Crimes (HIC). Policy-makers have been mainly focused on disseminating information to businesses and individuals on how to protect themselves
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Talk That Talk
The Evaluation and Redesign of a Persuasive Game for Tackling Sexual Violence Among Students in Dutch Universities
Background. Dutch universities struggle to find effective evidence-based intervention tools to reduce the high prevalence of sexual violence among their students. Reducing sexual violence means a safer student climate and thus better inclusion of women and more diversity in highe
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Participatory Serious Game Design for Societal Intervention
Exploring the Effectiveness of Participative Game Design Processes Between Communities and Police in the United States as a means for Reduced Police Bias
Throughout history, complex societal problems have plagued societies with their ever-changing dynamic natures and sheer societal consequences. In efforts to address such complex problems, many actors have turned to participatory methods as a means to incorporate community level k
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The influence of national culture on response behaviour during an evacuation
An agent-based approach
Accidents in buildings happen frequently and if people are not evacuated in time, this can have major consequences. The behaviour of building occupants is one of the most critical determinants herein.
Evacuation behaviour consists of two phases: the response phase and the evacua
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Computational decision support for crowd management applications
A case study on operational in-event pedestrian crowd management
Crowd management is a crucial element in keeping situations safe. Models can help understand in-event crowd management system more thoroughly, and illustrate potential effects of measures before they have to be implemented in real life. However, applications of crowd models for o
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Enterprise Modelling (EM) is the process of producing models, which in turn can be used to support understanding, analysis, (re)design, reasoning, control and learning about various aspects of an enterprise. Various EM techniques and languages exist, and are often supported by co
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