Crowd simulation has emerged in the last decade as a widely used method of visual effects,
computer games, and urban planning, etc. The improvement of hardware performance and …

1612 N. Bellomo et al. the modeling of traffic and crowds: A survey of models, speculations,
and perspectives, SIAM Rev. 53 (2011) 409–463], thus providing important research …

The first part of our paper presents a general survey on the modeling, analytic problems, and
applications of the dynamics of human crowds, where the specific features of living systems …

Since the first edition of this book in 2007, there has been a fast evolution in Virtual Reality.
Palmer Luckey designed a prototype for what would become the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality …

Inferring the laws of interaction in agent-based systems from observational data is a
fundamental challenge in a wide variety of disciplines. We propose a nonparametric …

Numerous research efforts have been conducted to simulate the crowd movements, while
relatively few of them are specifically focused on multihazard situations. In this paper, we …

The real‐time simulation of human crowds has many applications. Simulating how the
people in a crowd move through an environment is an active and ever‐growing research …

Understanding the principles and applications of crowd dynamics in mass gatherings is very
important, specifically with respect to crowd risk analysis and crowd safety. Historical trends …

Consistently exhibited personalities are crucial elements of realistic, engaging, and behavior-
rich conversational virtual agents. Both nonverbal and verbal cues help convey these …

Emotions are known to spread among people, a process known as emotion contagion. Both
positive and negative emotions are believed to be contagious, but the mass spread of …