A path planning approach for crowd evacuation in buildings based on improved artificial bee colony algorithm

• Published in: Applied soft computing Vol. 68; pp. 360 - 376
• Main Authors: Liu, Hong, Xu, Bin, Lu, Dianjie, Zhang, Guijuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.07.2018
• Subjects: Artificial bee colony algorithm; Crowd evacuation; Path planning; Simulation model; Social force model; Social force model; Artificial bee colony algorithm; Path planning; Simulation model; Crowd evacuation

[Display omitted] •We propose an Extended Social Force Model (ESFM) by adding a visual parameter for prejudging the congestion of the exits.•We present an Improved Artificial Bee Colony (IABC) algorithm with the strategies of grouping and multiple exits selection.•We simulate crowd evacuation by our...