stochastic optimization

Minimizing the evacuation time of a crowd from a complex building using rescue guides (2020)

The previous publications considered the realistic and computationally efficient modeling crowd dynamics. In this manuscript, an optimization procedure for solving the minimum time evacuation plan using rescue guides is presented. The method is applied on an evacuation from a conference building, which gives an evacuation plan that decreases the evacuation time by 80%. A high-performance computing cluster is used to solve the problem.