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FRACTAL, A MICROSCOPIC CROWD MODEL

Department of Computer and Information Management, State Polytechnics of Lampung, Jalan Soekarno-Hatta No. 10 Rajabasa, Bandar Lampung, 35145, Indonesia

Faculty of Industrial Information Technology, Bestari Jaya Campus, Jln Timur Tambahan, 45600 Berjuntai Bestari, Selangor, Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

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M. S. ABD. LATIFF

Department of Computer System and Communication, Faculty of Computer Science and Information System, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218348X08004095Cited by:1 (Source: Crossref)

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The core of this research is related to the human crowd problem. Some major problems are congestion, emergency evacuation, and fatal catastrophe. In fact, it has been realized that many crowd related problems can be resolved by influencing (controlling) human flow with providing various control measures. Thus, the problem itself becomes the motivation for this research and the solution is approached through model and simulation within the virtual environment.

The relationship between fractal pattern and crowd behavior is produced with respect to the crowd behavior model. It exposes a comparison between the crowd paths resulting from the model developed and the fractal formation created to imitate the crowd paths. A new approach for crowd behavior modeling is proposed based on fractal features and, thus, gives new understanding about a relationship between fractal pattern and crowd behavior. Several innovations of fractal patterns that can be used in crowd behavior model applications adds to the novelty of the research contribution. Ultimately, the new method of modeling the crowd can be obtained and at the same time the new direction of crowd modeling research can be directed.

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Received 13 November 2007

Accepted 6 June 2008

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