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Wong, SK. (2018). Crowd Evacuation Using Simulation Techniques. In: Lee, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08234-9_104-1

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