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Massively parallel Modelling & Simulation of large crowd with GPGPU

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In peacekeeping, domestic, or combat operations, unanticipated crowd confrontations can occur. As a highly dynamic social group, human crowd in confrontation is a fascinating phenomenon. This paper presents a novel method based on the concept of vector field to formulate the way in which external stimuli may affect the behaviours of individuals in a crowd. Furthermore, Modelling & Simulation (M&S) of large crowds at individual level has long been placed in the highly computation intensive world. This study adopts GPGPU to sustain massively parallel M&S of a confrontation operation involving a large crowd. This approach enables investigation of a crowd consisting of tens of thousands individuals whose size was prohibitively large for conventional M&S technique to support. Experimental results indicate that the approach is efficient in terms of both performance and energy consumption.

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  1. School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Dan Chen

  2. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    Dan Chen

  3. Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University, 2719 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN, 47408, USA

    Lizhe Wang

  4. Institute of Electrical Engineering, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, 066004, China

    Mingwei Tian, Shuaiting Wang, Congcong Bian & Xiaoli Li

  5. School of Economics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Jian Tian

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Chen, D., Wang, L., Tian, M. et al. Massively parallel Modelling & Simulation of large crowd with GPGPU. J Supercomput 63, 675–690 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-011-0675-4

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