Towards a Holistic Framework for the Evaluation of Emergency Plans in Indoor Environments.
One of the most promising fields for ambient intelligence is the implementation of intelligent plans. Because the use of drills and living labs cannot reproduce social behaviors, such as panic attacks, that strongly affect these plans, the use of agent-based social simulation provides an approach to evaluate these plans more thoroughly. (1) 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. This lack of interest hinders researchers from achieving a holistic framework for evaluating plans and forces them to reconsider and to implement the same components from scratch over and over. In addition to supporting this hypothesis by considering over 150 simulators, this paper: (2) defines the main modules identified and proposes the use of semantic web technologies as a cornerstone for the aforementioned holistic framework; (3) provides a basic methodology to achieve the framework; (4) identifies the main challenges; and (5) presents an open and free software to hint at the potential of such a holistic view of emergency plan in indoor environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]/nCopyright of Sensors (14248220) is the property of MDPI Publishing and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
Simulation development, experimental testing with case study
PeopleInBuildingPeopleWhoReachEmergencyPeopleWhoReachEmergency
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 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 plan produce crowds?
As observed above, the study of the simulation GUIis worthy. Nevertheless, the GUI tends to disappear for the in simulation research [12]. As a result, batch experiments are employed to obtain general conclusions of the 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 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 to hint at the potential of such a holistic view of plan in indoor environments.
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