Agent-based simulation for large-scale emergency response: A survey of usage and implementation

Glenn Hawe; Graham Coates; Duncan Wilson; Roger Crouch

doi:10.1145/2379776.2379784

Agent-based simulation for large-scale emergency response: A survey of usage and implementation

Glenn Hawe, Graham Coates, Duncan Wilson, Roger Crouch

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When attempting to determine how to respond optimally to a large-scale emergency, the abilityto predict the consequences of certain courses of action in silico is of great utility. Agent-basedsimulations (ABSs) have become the de facto tool for this purpose, however they may be used and implemented in a variety of ways. This paper reviews existing implementations of ABSs for large scale emergency response, and presents a taxonomy classifying them by usage. Opportunities for improving ABS for large-scale emergency response are identified.

Original language	English
Journal	Computing Surveys (Association for Computing Machinery)
Volume	45
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2379776.2379784
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1 Nov 2012

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