Towards a Holistic Framework for the Evaluation of Emergency Plans in Indoor Environments.

Simulation development, experimental testing with case study

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Holistic framework descriptionImplementationtesting

Use of case study Technologies for the future of hotels (THOFU) [80], EscapeSim has been employed to model a hotel environment and to assess emergency evacuations in this space

Not explicitly stated only for the case study the RQs are:What happens if the fire is near an exit? What if an exit is the closest to most of the rooms? Does the emergency plan produce crowds?

As observed above, the study of the simulation GUIis worthy. Nevertheless, the GUI tends to disappear for the evaluation in simulation research [12]. As a result, batch experiments are employed to obtain general conclusions of the emergency plan being tested.The framework has noted the necessity of: (1) including modules that formalize the concepts involved in the remaining modules by using semantic web technologies; (2) offering abstract models prior to the implementation without specific programming language constraints by employing the agent-based simulation paradigm; and, when implementing these models; (3) giving an open and highly modularized source code to enhance its reuse and extension in the context of a service-oriented architecture.

this research proposal paper has presented a holistic framework that attempts to address all emergency evaluation aspects and that facilitates the reuse, extension and interconnection of its major componentsThe paper has also described the methodological framework required for this novel combination of technologies, which emphasizes the integration of previous works and the diffusion of each little advance in the construction of this holistic framework.

The hypothesis presented in this paper is that there has been little interest in describing the key modules that these simulators must include, such as formally represented knowledge and a realistic simulated sensor model, and especially in providing researchers with tools to reuse, extend and interconnect modules from different works.defines the main modules identified and proposes the use of semantic web technologies as a cornerstone for the aforementioned holistic framework; provides a basic methodology to achieve the framework; identifies the main challenges; and presents an open and free software tool to hint at the potential of such a holistic view of emergency plan evaluation in indoor environments.