Multi-agent geospatial simulation of human interactions and behaviour in bushfires.
Abstract
Understanding human behaviour and interactions in risk situations may help to improve crisis management strategies in order to avoid the worst scenarios. In this paper we present a geospatial agent-based model and simulation of human behaviour in bushfires. We have modelled the social interactions between different actors involved in bushfires such as firefighter, police, emergency centre managers and civilians. We use the Belief, Desire and Intention (BDI) architecture to model realistic human behaviour, and the FIPA-ACL standard to model the communications. We use geospatial data to represent the environment in a realistic way. We show how the model has been implemented and how we have unified the communications model and the BDI architecture. Finally, we compare the processing time of two implementations of our model representing a 2D simple and a 3D GIS environment.
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