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Human crowds display a rich variety of collective behaviors. In this talk at the Summer Institute for Bounded Rationality 2014, Mehdi Moussaid, Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development demonstrates how simple behavioral rules can describe the behavior of pedestrians better than dominant models that assume pedestrians behave like particles in a gas.
His talk illustrates how a variety of seemingly complex behaviors observed in crowds (ranging from the spontaneous organization of traffic flows under everyday life conditions, to the emergence of crowd turbulence at extreme density) follow naturally from these heuristics.
This talk was presented at the Summer Institute for Bounded Rationality 2014, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, from 10 to 17 June. The 2014 theme was “Simple Solutions for a Complex Worldâ€. The summer institute is an annual event that hosts young scientists from various countries and disciplines for a week of exchange about bounded rationality.
For more information, visit https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/adaptive-behavior-and-cognition/summer-institute-on-bounded-rationality
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