The virtual marathon: parallel computing supports crowd simulations.
To be realistic, an urban model must include appropriate numbers of pedestrians, vehicles, and other dynamic entities. Using a parallel-computing architecture, researchers simulated a marathon with more than a million participants. To simulate participant behavior, they used fuzzy logic on a GPU to perform millions of inferences in real time.
Yilmaz
Erdal
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Informatics Institute, Middle East Technical University. erdal@ii.metu.edu.tr
Isler
Veysi
V
Cetin
Yasemin Yardimci
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D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003441:Crowding / Q000523:psychology*; D017143:Fuzzy Logic; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics; D014505:Urban Population; D014584:User-Computer Interface