The Microscopic Model and the Panicking Ball-Bearing

Colin Marc Henein () and Tony White
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Colin Marc Henein: Carleton University, Institute of Cognitive Science
Tony White: Carleton University, Institute of Cognitive Science

A chapter in Pedestrian and Evacuation Dynamics 2008, 2010, pp 569-575 from Springer

Abstract: Summary Prominent microscopic models simulate panic (which has been described as a myth) allowing unwarranted simplifying assumptions that people are irrational, non-deliberative and interchangeable. While these assumptions can be remedied by increasing the behavioral repertoire of modelled individuals, large cognitive architectures would stifle a model’s power to explain emergent crowd effects. We propose the microscopic human factor (MHF) approach that increases behavioral repertoire without compromise to the elegant simplicity from which the models derive their explanatory power.

Keywords: Microscopic Model; Cognitive Architecture; Behavioral Repertoire; Crowd Behavior; Social Force Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04504-2_51

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