Quantifying the interplay of emotions and rationality in herding: A game-theoretic simulation study
Authored by Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha, Ahmad Din, Umar Farooq
Date Published: 2016
DOI: 10.1177/1059712316635719
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Abstract
In this paper, we apply game theory to analyze interplay between
emotions and rationality, to reduce the effect of herding during
evacuation. The simulation model developed for this work incorporates
the social behavior of the crowd to ensure an improved evacuation. This
model is simulated for four strategies, built upon both social and
technological aspects of decision-making, with varied sets of the
agents' density and type being either rational or emotional.
This work is evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively using
parameters such as simulation time, agents' distribution across exits, exit utilization, and panic. Mixed results were achieved in general;
however, the game variation allowing more than one exit change showed an
improvement over both variations of the game allowing a single exit
change.
Tags
Dynamics
Crowd evacuation
Emergency evacuation
Cellular-automaton model