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Modelling Evacuation at Crisis Situations by Petri Net-Based Supervision

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Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XII

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Place/transition Petri Nets (P/T PN) are utilized here to: (i) model modules of the endangered area (EA) having some attributes of simple agents; (ii) coerce the autonomous modules to a cooperation by means of supervision; (iii) model workflow of the evacuation process from EA. The approach is applied to analyzing the possibilities of evacuation EA being a part of a building and to finding the suitable free and safety escape routes. A supervisor is synthesized in order to force modules (agents) into a cooperation. The supervisor represents a desired goal of the cooperation and ensures its achievement. Thus, it makes the cooperation of modules possible. Its synthesis is based on the supervision methods known in DES (discrete-event systems) control theory. A simple case study of the building evacuation illustrates the proposed approach. The P/T PN based modelling the EA and the P/T PN-based evacuation workflow are proposed there. The differences between them as well as the possibilities of their mutual complementing are pointed out.

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Čapkovič, F. (2013). Modelling Evacuation at Crisis Situations by Petri Net-Based Supervision. In: Nguyen, N.T. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8240. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53878-0_8

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