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Dynamic Human Behaviors 

The goal of this effort is to provide a more realistic simulation model of crowd behavior under both panic and non-panic conditions by considering individual differences in age, gender, culture and ethnicity.  This would be a valuable tool for police departments, the military, and others to use for event handling or in terrorist situations.  It could also be used for building design to accommodate cultural differences.

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Behavior of Biological Systems

This goal of this research proposal is to develop simulation models to understand and predict the behavior of organisms interacting within a complex environment. Currently,this group isdeveloping crowd-control models to simulate the collective behavior of pedestrians in the street or of people finding their way inside a building or a room. We propose to generalize crowd-control models, which are useful for understanding and predicting human behavior, to simulate behavior of other mobile animals. For example, models can be developed to predict the movement of animals through an ecopassage, the outcome of complex interactions along environmental gradients, and the effects of point-source pollution on larval settlement in marine communities.