peared? Was this caused by climate changes? What type of recruitment strategy among social insects is best adapted to their particular environment? How much time does it take to evacuate an airport if people have limited perception caused by smoke as well as restricted mobility? What if many of these people travel in groups or families? How long does it take for commuters to reach their destina...

This project focuses on simulating the traffic at an intersection using agent-based planning and behavioral methods. The motivation is to simulate this traffic in a way that’s noisy, believable, and high level of detail. The main approach is based on the idea of a control obstacle and a greedy sampling method to navigate the robots. Other behaviors are generated using constraints and finite sta...

This paper focuses on the multi-agent highway traffic simulation. It provides a realistic modeling with high fidelity continuous vehicle movement incorporating physical dynamics of the vehicles. The deliberative agent part of the system enables to implement and evaluate complex cooperation and coordination algorithms. The paper presents the architecture and implemented simulator for evaluation ...

This paper provides a survey and analysis of applications of Agent Based Simulation (ABS). A framework for describing and assessing the applications is presented and systematically applied. A general conclusion from the study is that even if ABS seems a promising approach to many problems involving simulation of complex systems of interacting entities, it seems as the full potential of the agen...

Conventional wisdom is that a person's attitude towards an issue dictates their behaviour. In contrast, self-perception theory accounts for how person forms attitude. the context of this paper, asserts can, in absence prior experience, establish cycling based on observing own, hopefully, positive experience. The adaptive agent-based model, MATSim, allows one to test theory. case study Cape Town...

This research thesis considers the role of affect in the domain of social simulation. Focus is given to primate-like social organisation and potential internalisation mechanisms. Autonomous (bottom-up) adaptation of hierarchical social organisation and interaction is argued as feasible, by the introduction of affective and simple normative mechanisms into an individual agent architecture. This ...