Pedestrian and Crowd Dynamics Simulation: Testing SCA on Paradigmatic Cases of Emerging Coordination in Negative Interaction Conditions

The paper presents a set of theoretical experiments performed to evaluate Situated Cellular Agent (SCA) approach within pedestrian dynamics research context. SCA is a modeling and simulation approach based on Multi Agent Systems principles that derives from Cellular Automata. In particular, we focus on two emerging phenomena (freezing by heating and lane formation phenomena) that have been empirically observed and already modeled by analytical particle-based models and Cellular Automata-based models.

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