iCrowd simulation-as-a service (SaaS): a distributed and remotely accessible simulation platform

Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos; Christos Kyriakopoulos

doi:10.1117/12.2624766

8 June 2022 iCrowd simulation-as-a service (SaaS): a distributed and remotely accessible simulation platform

Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos, Christos Kyriakopoulos

Proceedings Volume 12122, Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXXI; 121220R (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2624766
Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2022, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

The iCrowd human and crowd behavior simulator provides an integrated simulation platform for simulating crowd behavior alongside with simulation of physical phenomena and their interaction with and impact on the behavior of humans, including cognitive and psychological aspects and information exchange. The iCrowd simulation platform has been applied to various complex scenarios including evacuation of people from buildings and outdoor environments in case of fire, simulation and testing of risk-based security strategies and protocols, anomaly detection in security-sensitive environments based on human tracks, and others. Recently, iCrowd has become available in the form of a Simulation-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment implemented on virtual machines (VMs) and remote access through secure HTTPS connections. The SaaS iCrowd environment has been tested by qualified end-users in designing and evaluating the performance of risk-based security strategies for border crossing, evaluating the performance of novel biometrics, and for crowd evacuation in an urban environment on the scale of mid-size town with photorealistic modeling of the simulated environment. The feedback from the use of the iCrowd SaaS environment by end-users has been very encouraging and limited training was required to get end-users familiarized in the use of the simulator. In this paper we report on the different use cases the iCrowd SaaS was used to train different end-user groups and on the evaluation results from the training of these groups in terms of learning and performance objectives.

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Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos and Christos Kyriakopoulos "iCrowd simulation-as-a service (SaaS): a distributed and remotely accessible simulation platform", Proc. SPIE 12122, Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXXI, 121220R (8 June 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2624766

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