Agent-Based Simulation Of Crowd At The Tawaf Area.

Every year during the Hajj season there is a concentration of more than two million people within the vicinity of the Masjid Al-Haram. Congested areas, such as the tawaf,, may reach beyond a safe level of four people per square meter during this peak period. The Tawaf area together with the Ottoman...

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Main Authors: Sarmady, S., Haron, F., Talib, Abdullah Zawawi
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2007
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Haron, F.
Talib, Abdullah Zawawi
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description Every year during the Hajj season there is a concentration of more than two million people within the vicinity of the Masjid Al-Haram. Congested areas, such as the tawaf,, may reach beyond a safe level of four people per square meter during this peak period. The Tawaf area together with the Ottoman construction is able to accommodate up to 72,000 people (in a praying position). Simulation of the movement and behavior of such a huge crowd can be useful in managing this important event. One of the recent trends in modeling and simulation is the agent technology which has been used to model and simulate various phenomenon such as the study of land use, infectious disease modeling, economic and business study, urban dynamic and also pedestrian modeling. In this paper we use multi-agent based method to simulate the crowd at the Tawaf area. We present the architecture of the software platform which implements our proposed model and briefly report our early experience in using- Repast J which is an agent-based simulation toolkit to model the crowd at the area.
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spelling usm-93972013-07-13T04:08:37Z http://eprints.usm.my/9397/ Agent-Based Simulation Of Crowd At The Tawaf Area. Sarmady, S. Haron, F. Talib, Abdullah Zawawi QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science Every year during the Hajj season there is a concentration of more than two million people within the vicinity of the Masjid Al-Haram. Congested areas, such as the tawaf,, may reach beyond a safe level of four people per square meter during this peak period. The Tawaf area together with the Ottoman construction is able to accommodate up to 72,000 people (in a praying position). Simulation of the movement and behavior of such a huge crowd can be useful in managing this important event. One of the recent trends in modeling and simulation is the agent technology which has been used to model and simulate various phenomenon such as the study of land use, infectious disease modeling, economic and business study, urban dynamic and also pedestrian modeling. In this paper we use multi-agent based method to simulate the crowd at the Tawaf area. We present the architecture of the software platform which implements our proposed model and briefly report our early experience in using- Repast J which is an agent-based simulation toolkit to model the crowd at the area. 2007-05 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/9397/1/Agent-based_Simulation_of_Crowd_at_the_Tawaf_Area.pdf Sarmady, S. and Haron, F. and Talib, Abdullah Zawawi (2007) Agent-Based Simulation Of Crowd At The Tawaf Area. In: Proceedings of the National Seminar on Hajj Best Practices Through Advances in Science & Technology, 28-30 May 2007, Universiti Sains Malaysia,Pulau Pinang.
spellingShingle QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science
Sarmady, S.
Haron, F.
Talib, Abdullah Zawawi
Agent-Based Simulation Of Crowd At The Tawaf Area.
title Agent-Based Simulation Of Crowd At The Tawaf Area.
title_full Agent-Based Simulation Of Crowd At The Tawaf Area.
title_fullStr Agent-Based Simulation Of Crowd At The Tawaf Area.
title_full_unstemmed Agent-Based Simulation Of Crowd At The Tawaf Area.
title_short Agent-Based Simulation Of Crowd At The Tawaf Area.
title_sort agent-based simulation of crowd at the tawaf area.
topic QA75.5-76.95 Electronic computers. Computer science
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http://eprints.usm.my/9397/1/Agent-based_Simulation_of_Crowd_at_the_Tawaf_Area.pdf