Modeling Multiple Tasks by the Response Threshold Model in Evacuation Simulation

Abstract

It is widely known that herd behavior, a cognitive bias in humans, causes irrational or inappropriate behaviors in evacuation situations. In this paper, we propose the evacuation decision model for herding based on the biological response threshold model. We also show that the proposed model can be applied for multi task problems in which the agents must choose two or more tasks to perform such as evacuation and fire fighting.