TY - GEN
T1 - A cognitive model for routing in agent-based modelling
AU - Grübel, Jascha
AU - Wise, Sarah
AU - Thrash, Tyler
AU - Hölscher, Christoph
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Author(s).
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Agent-based modelling (ABM) can be used as a computational tool to model human routing behaviour, and offers particular promise when combined with insights from cognitive science. In this paper, we introduce typical errors into the encoding of the agents mental representation of the environment. This method deviates from the classical computer science paradigm of optimality to capture human behaviour more accurately. By incorporating common distance and direction estimation errors, our model produces routes with fewer computational artefacts such as zigzagging (i.e., turning more often than the typical human) and bottlenecks (i.e., routing through one particular node that maximises efficiency). We demonstrate our results in regular and irregular environments and validate our model using a set of real-world footfall data from Westminster, London.
AB - Agent-based modelling (ABM) can be used as a computational tool to model human routing behaviour, and offers particular promise when combined with insights from cognitive science. In this paper, we introduce typical errors into the encoding of the agents mental representation of the environment. This method deviates from the classical computer science paradigm of optimality to capture human behaviour more accurately. By incorporating common distance and direction estimation errors, our model produces routes with fewer computational artefacts such as zigzagging (i.e., turning more often than the typical human) and bottlenecks (i.e., routing through one particular node that maximises efficiency). We demonstrate our results in regular and irregular environments and validate our model using a set of real-world footfall data from Westminster, London.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85069954632
U2 - 10.1063/1.5114245
DO - 10.1063/1.5114245
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85069954632
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
BT - International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, ICNAAM 2018
A2 - Simos, Theodore
A2 - Tsitouras, Charalambos
PB - American Institute of Physics Inc.
T2 - International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2018, ICNAAM 2018
Y2 - 13 September 2018 through 18 September 2018
ER -