Description:
Public safety has been an important concern over the years. When a public event is held in an urban environment like Olympic games or soccer games, it is important to keep the public safe and at the same time, to have a specific plan to control and rescue the public in the case of a terrorist attack. In order to better position public safety in communities against potential threats, it is of utmost importance to identify existing gaps, define priorities and focus on developing approaches to address those. This project aims to make an extension to the GENIUS system, where crowd simulation will be included in the computational modeling framework for counter-terrorism planning and response. Based on swarm intelligence and agent-based modeling, we will create a model where the system can create a large number of people with specific behavioral characteristics. It is our goal to create a tool where operator can simulate a crowd of over 20,000 individuals. Police and other law enforcement officers can use this tool for training and operational simulation. Read More