A design of artificial high-rise building evacuation systems under fires

Because the structure and function of a high-rise building is complex and the density of occupants is high, and the rescue from outside is very difficult, safe and timely evacuation is an important issue under high-rise building fires. Worsely, it is impossible to do experiments for economic, moral, or even legal reasons. In this paper, based on an ACP (artificial systems, computational experiments, parallel execution) approach, a design of an artificial evacuation system for computational experiments research on societies evacuation strategies is proposed. Based on the building EXODUS platform, the agent technology is used to build the high-rise building architectures and occupant individuals who have autonomous activities. By using CFAST software, numerical calculation technology is used to build several kinds of fire scenarios. By interactions and influences, an artificial evacuation system can be built.