Paper Info
Title
Parallel Implementation of a Cellular Automata-Based Model for Simulating Assisted Evacuation of Elderly People.
Abstract
This paper presents the principles of a Cellular Automata (CA) based model that focuses on assisted evacuation processes of elderly people and its parallel implementation. It is vital in venues that it is ensured punctual and safe evacuation of all people irrespective of their physical or mental condition. Obviously, in cases of emergency, such groups of people need special care in order to abandon an area. They themselves form a special category of moving people but they can be further sub-categorized regarding their mobility capabilities, according to their different ailments (mobility disabilities, vision in capabilities, hearing weaknesses or even mental difficulties). The proposed model incorporates such parameters matching elderly people to different mobility groups that are assisted by specialized personnel. Multiple simulation scenarios have been performed that validate the response of the model qualitatively and quantitatively. Moreover, due to the inherent parallelism of CA, the solution of Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) is preferred to further speed up and proceed with the parallel implementation of the presented computational CA model. The aim of such a high performance computing implementation is to transform the proposed CA model to the basic module of an elderly crowd management anticipative system. Consequently, the model leads also to useful conclusions regarding proper venue layouts for efficient evacuation response.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/PDP.2016.133
Euromicro Conference on Parallel Distributed and Network-Based Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
cellular automata,modeling,evacuation,simulation,elderly,graphic processing unit
Cellular automaton,Crowd management,Supercomputer,Mental condition,Computer science,Speedup,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1066-6192
0
0.34
References 
Authors
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Konstantina Konstantara100.34
Nikolaos Dourvas2164.23
Ioakeim G. Georgoudas3548.02
Sirakoulis Georgios Ch.430660.41