Crowd dynamics: Modeling, Simulation and Experiments Simo Heliövaara Supervisor: Prof. Harri Ehtamo Systems Analysis Laboratory Aalto University School of Science and Technology firstname.lastname@tkk.fi

Best-response reactions Computational models for the behavior and interaction of people in crowds Best-response reactions Methods -Agent-based modeling -Game theoretic learning models -Evolutionary game theory Human behavior -Psychology -Observations on real crowds -Experiments with students -Similarities with animal swarms FDS+Evac-simulation model -Integration of crowd simulation and state-of-the-art fire simu- lation Multi-directional flow Fire Evacuation Applications Building design: -Evacuation safety analysis -Optimization of the usability of venues Safety analysis of Porvoo Museum Design of Helsinki Music Centre

Exit selection (with Juha-Matti Kuusinen) Best-response dynamics for exit selection Myopic agents minimize their evacuation time (walking time + queuing time) Results are compared to experimental results