Theme Park Simulation based on Questionnaires for Maximizing Visitor Surplus

The theme park problem is a research framework that evaluates measures for improving the satisfaction of visitors to crowded amusement parks on a multi-agent simulation (MAS). To make the MAS more realistic, we propose the followings: 1) visitor surplus, which evaluates visitors’ satisfaction based on microeconomics, 2) multinomial linear model, a selection behavior model based on visitor surplus, and 3) a tolerance limit model, which estimates the distribution of the visitors’ tolerance limits of waiting times by analyzing questionnaire results. ACM Reference Format: Hitoshi Shimizu, TatsushiMatsubayashi, Akinori Fujino, andHiroshi Sawada. 2020. Theme Park Simulation based on Questionnaires for Maximizing Visitor Surplus. In Proc. of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2020), Auckland, New Zealand, May 9–13, 2020, IFAAMAS, 3 pages.

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