Navigating the Aisles: Evolutionary Algorithms for Supermarket Evacuation Planning

2024/07/14 by Carlos Cotta · 1 voice
Computer Science · Engineering · Social Sciences · #Data Visualization and Analytics #Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics #Transportation Planning and Optimization

paper · doi:10.1145/3638530.3664096

openalex publication_date 2024/07/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

We address the placement of emergency exits to facilitate evacuation from supermarket-like environments. Using a simulation-based approach, evolutionary algorithms are shown to provide good results compared to a greedy heuristic and a numerical method.

Citations

• Optimization-Driven Workplace Evacuation using Evolutionary Algorithms and Derivative-Free Methods

Discussions

• C. Cotta @ccottap.bsky.social, Navigating the Aisles: Evolutionary Algorithms for Supermarket Evacuation Planning, GECCO '24 Companion, pp. 89-90, ACM, New York, NY, 2024 doi.org/10.1145/3638... #Rese [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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