Intelligent systems sense their environment and learn from the actions they implement to
reach specific goals. They are increasingly used to support tourist information search and …

Although the traits emerged in a mass gathering are often non-deliberative, the act of mass
impulse may lead to irrevocable crowd disasters. The two-fold increase of carnage in crowd …

This paper proposes a new path planning approach for emergency evacuation simulation.
This technique combines the Extended Social Force Model (ESFM) and the Improved …

Creating Sanctuary is a description of a hospital-based program to treat adults who had
been abused as children and the revolutionary knowledge about trauma and adversity that …

This paper presents a crowd evacuation simulation approach that is based on navigation
knowledge and two-layer control mechanism. In this approach, using the multi-population …

Nature-inspired algorithms, especially those based on swarm intelligence, have been
successfully applied to solve a variety of optimization problems in real-world applications …

Interest in automatic crowd behaviour analysis has grown considerably in the last few years.
Crowd behaviour analysis has become an integral part all over the world for ensuring …

Expert judgements are essential when time and resources are stretched or we face novel
dilemmas requiring fast solutions. Good advice can save lives and large sums of money …

Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice is about the creative ways in which social
entrepreneurs solve pressing and insurmountable social problems. Theories of social …

Many optimization problems in science and engineering are challenging to solve, and the
current trend is to use swarm intelligence (SI) and SI-based algorithms to tackle such …