Titolo del corso
Artificial Intelligence approaches to Physical and Virtual Crowd Phenomena
Codice identificativo del corso
1819-87R-AIPVCP
This course discusses Artificial
Intelligence approaches to issues and opportunities implied by the study of complex systems (by means of
direct analysis of the related dynamics, as well as by means of modeling and
simulation) considering specifically crowding phenomena as a specific example, on which
both activities of analysis and synthesis (modeling and simulation) will be discussed.
Particular attention will be paid to phenomena
associated to the actual movement of pedestrians and crowds in the built
environment, studied with the final goal of supporting designers, planners and
managers of events characterized by significant crowding conditions.
The state of the art on modeling approaches will be
presented, and also relevant exploitable tools for the simulation of crowds of
pedestrians will be introduced.
The course will finally discuss “virtual” forms of
crowds, in particular, considering studies on the collective behaviour of (i) social
network users and (ii) other kinds of socio-economic systems.