Conventional fire and smoke control systems use pressure differences across small openings and cracks in physical barriers as a means to restrict smoke propagation from one space to another and water-spray curtains to diminish or eliminate fire and smoke. Most fire codes of Unite State of American depend upon the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), guidebooks [1,2]. In turn these propo...

Simulation is widely used within the Australian Army and other defence forces for marksmanship training. However, there is a lack of data that quantifies the training effectiveness of these devices, and informs the appropriate mix of live-fire and simulation. This report documents a study which measured the effect of additional simulator training on a basic live-fire qualification task with the...

The RoboCupRescue Simulation project aims at simulating large-scale disasters in order to explore coordination strategies helpful for real-life rescue missions. This can only be achieved if the simulation itself is as close to reality as possible. In this paper, we present a new fire simulator based on a realistic physical model of heat development and heat transport in urban fires. It allows t...

We describe a simulation model concerning a scenario of a burning forest and fire-fighters battling with blaze. The simulator addresses three layers of the scenario. We model spreading of the fire, a network of sensors gathering temperature data from the forest and fire-fighters actions taken automatically on the basis of sensors data. We also provide initial simulation results showing how the ...

Lovelace and Cios (2008) recently proposed a very simple spiking neuron (VSSN) model for simulations of large neuronal networks as an efficient replacement for the integrate-and-fire neuron model. We argue that the VSSN model falls behind key advances in neuronal network modeling over the past 20 years, in particular, techniques that permit simulators to compute the state of the neuron without ...