Abstract: Studies of past emergency events indicate that evacuating occupants often exhibit social behaviors that affect the evacuation process. This paper describes a multiagent-based simulation framework that enables the modeling ...

Abstract: This paper presents the results of two surveys conducted by the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Task Committee on Computing Education of the Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology to assess the ...

Abstract: For many years, the Japanese construction industry has practiced several accident‐prevention activities. In spite of these safety activities, occupational accidents recur. Why? This paper offers examples of accident‐prevention ...