CROSS: Modelling Crowd Behaviour with Social-Cognitive Agents

Nanda Wijermans (), René Jorna (), Wander Jager (), Tony van Vliet () and Otto Adang ()
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René Jorna: http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/personal/renejorna
Wander Jager: http://www.rug.nl/w.jager
Otto Adang: http://www.policestudies.net

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2013, vol. 16, issue 4, 1

Abstract: The use of computer simulations in crowd research is a powerful tool to describe and analyse complex social systems. This paper presents CROSS, a generic framework to model crowd simulations as a social scientific tool for understanding crowd behaviour. In CROSS, individuals are represented by social-cognitive agents that are affected by their social and physical surroundings and produce cognition-based behaviour and behaviour patterns. Understanding is sought by relating intra- and inter-individual levels of behaviour generation with behaviour pattern emergence at group level. By specifying the CROSS framework for a festival context we demonstrate how CROSS meets the need for a theory that reflects the dynamic interplay between individuals and their environment as well as the need for a method that allows for testing.

Keywords: Crowd Behaviour; Social-Cognitive Model; Multi-Level; Agent-Based; Crowds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-10-31
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