An Emotional Agent Model for the Simulation of Realistic Civilian Behaviors during Emergency Situations

Analyzing human behaviors during emergency situations contributes to build efficient emergency management plans. Indeed, research shows that emotions have a major influence on human behavior particularly to respond to highly emotive events such as those happening in emergency situations. Therefore, it is recognized that they are necessary to produce human-like behaviors in artificial agents. In this paper, we present an emotional agent model of human civilians in an emergency context. The aim is to model and to simulate the emotion generation process and the impact of the elicited emotions on civilian behaviors in an emergency situation during a disaster.