People with disabilities are one of the most vulnerable groups involved in building fires.
According to US Fire Administration, an estimated 700 home fires involve people with …

The frequency of natural and man-made disasters has increased over the past few decades,
which has doubled the significance of evacuation planning because it directly affects …

Understanding human behavior and predicting evacuation processes subsequently to an
earthquake are critical aspects to provide valuable information to support disaster response …

This paper is concerned with the representation of building users in simulation applications
that explore buildings' energy and indoor environmental performance. In recent years, efforts …

The integrated use of building information modeling (BIM) and geographic information
system (GIS) is promising for the development of asset management systems (AMSs) for …

Due to the underground nature and dense concentration of people around transit stations,
emergency evacuation during fire accidents can become a noticeable problem in subways …

Emergency events in the industrial sector have been increasingly reported during the past
decade. However, studies that focus on emergency evacuation to improve industrial safety …

Collective behavior is a widespread and important phenomenon among human society,
biological populations, swarm robots and multi-agents. The mathematical model shows that …

Many researchers have been shifted towards considering different evacuation planning
issues to achieve safe evacuation so that the mortality rate can be minimized. In virtue of …

An engineering method was developed for determining the critical time of fire and
determining the probability of evacuation of people from zone of fire, which makes it …