Spread of Situation Awareness in a Group: Comparison of Population-based vs. Agent-based Models

This paper compares population-based and agent-based modelling approaches for the dynamics of group Situation Awareness. These two models were applied to a case study in aviation. Numerous relevant simulations of the models were performed in order to investigate whether the behaviour of the population-based model can approximate the pattern produced by the agent-based model. It was demonstrated that, especially for large populations, the agent-based approach might be substituted by a population-based approach, since both models demonstrate a similar pattern.