Human-Ant Behavior in Evacuation Dynamics

PARISI, DR; JOSENS, R

Traffic and Granular Flow '13

Springer

Año: 2015; p. 203 - 211

AbstractRecently, it has been shown that ants evacuate efficiently during a lifeand-death situation displaying an unselfish behavior [1]. Here, we model this ant behavior and compare it with the more expected selfish (human) behavior by con sidering different mixtures of evacuating agents with both kind of behaviors. Two unselfish behaviors were studied using the social force model as physical bases. For the ant-likebehavior, an optimum mixture is found at 80%. In the case of living obstacle behavior, only 29% is required to achieve the minimum evacuation time. In general, the simulations with a mixture of selfish and unselfish behavior show improvement in the evacuation time and blockage probability of the exit.