The evacuation of complex buildings is a challenge under any circumstances. Fire drills are a way of training and validating evacuation plans. However, sometimes these plans are not taken seriously by their participants. It is also difficult to have the financial and time resources required. In this scenario, serious games can be used as a tool for training, planning and evaluating emergency pl...

A postabortion care program was implemented in 11 primary and secondary health facilities in rural Tanzania in order to decentralize comprehensive postabortion care to community level by upgrading midlevel providers to perform manual vacuum aspiration (MVA). Information about evacuation procedure and family planning (FP) service provided was obtained from the health facilities. In all, 2025 eva...

The P-graph framework is proven to be highly effective in solving Process Network Synthesis. In the present work, the P-graph framework has been adopted for solving the routing and scheduling of evacuees, facing a life-threatening situation. First the building evacuation problem is represented by means of a P-graph model, which is then transformed into a time-expanded process network synthesis ...

This paper presents a cellular simulation model for pedestrian emergency evacuation, which takes into account social factors such as individual vision, environmental familiarity, communication and conduction, and velocity adjustment. Variables are introduced to describe the relationship between the evacuees and their environment, as well as the interaction with each other. RESTful CD++ has been...

In aiming to decrease the number of casualties and people with difficulty in wide-area evacuations due to a large earthquake, it is highly important to visualize and quantify the potential danger in residential areas. In this paper, we construct a multi-agent simulation model, which describes property damage (such as building-collapse, the spread of fire and blocking of streets) and people’s ev...

In a formative user study, we evaluated the requirements of visual analytics for dynamic evacuation planning. To this end, we created a prototype that implements the visual analytics methodology and is able to compute, visualize, and interact with evacuation routes in emergency situations in buildings. Using this prototype, we conducted an expert survey including a psychologist, a consultant fo...