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A Computational Agent Model for Stress Reaction in Natural Disaster Victims

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Information Science and Applications (ICISA) 2016

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Computational model of stress reaction among natural disaster victim can be of interest for different purposes, varying from the study of virtual human cognition behaviours in stressful events to the development of intelligent support for cognitive therapies. This paper presents a novel computational agent model of stress reaction among natural disaster victims. Simulation experiments under different conditions and parameters setting pointed out that the model is able to produce realistic behaviour of different types of personalities. Moreover, by a mathematical analysis the equilibria of the model have been determined, and by automated trace checking, a number of selected cases from the literatures have been internally validated.

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  1. Human Centred Computing Group, Computational Intelligence Research Platform, College of Arts and Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia

    Hayder Mohammed, Azizi Ab Aziz & Noraziah ChePa

  2. Internetworks Research Laboratory, School of Computing, College of Arts and Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia

    Ahmad Hanis Mohd Shabli

  3. MEDIA Lab, School of Multimedia Technology and Communication, College of Arts and Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia, 06010, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia

    Juliana Aida Abu Bakar & Asmidah Alwi

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    Kuinam J. Kim

  2. Chair of IEEE CS STCOS, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center Chair of IEEE CS STCOS, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

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Mohammed, H., Aziz, A.A., ChePa, N., Shabli, A.H.M., Bakar, J.A.A., Alwi, A. (2016). A Computational Agent Model for Stress Reaction in Natural Disaster Victims. In: Kim, K., Joukov, N. (eds) Information Science and Applications (ICISA) 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 376. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0557-2_78

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