Towards accelerated agent-based crowd simulation for Hajj and Umrah

There are many scientific applications ranging from weather prediction to oil and gas exploration that requires high-performance computing. It aids industries and researchers to enrich further their advancements. With the advent of general purpose computing over GPUs, most of the applications above...

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Main Authors: Rahman, Abdur, Abdul Hamid, Nor Asilah Wati, Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan, Zafar, Basim
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2015
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spelling my.upm.eprints.562732017-07-31T04:14:40Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56273/ Towards accelerated agent-based crowd simulation for Hajj and Umrah Rahman, Abdur Abdul Hamid, Nor Asilah Wati Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan Zafar, Basim There are many scientific applications ranging from weather prediction to oil and gas exploration that requires high-performance computing. It aids industries and researchers to enrich further their advancements. With the advent of general purpose computing over GPUs, most of the applications above are shifting towards High-Performance Computing (HPC). Agent-based crowd simulation is one of the candidates that requires high-performance computing. This type of application is used to predict crowd movement in highly congested areas. One of the most crucial scenarios in which this application can be used is to mimic the movement of the multi-cultural crowd performing Hajj and Umrah in Masjid Al-Haram, Makkah. Adequate performance for an agent-based crowd system is a common problem in computer science. While the existing event planning software, specifically for Hajj and Umrah, are unable to provide the required performance. The main reason is the increasing amount of autonomous pilgrims every year. In this paper, we propose a high performance agent-based crowd simulation that represents pilgrim movement during these rituals. The performance is achieved by parallelizing an open source steering library called OpenSteer using CUDA over GPU. By using our technique, event organizers will be able to simulate large crowds and will also be able to predict whether the developed event plan is viable or not. We have also discussed the architecture and implementation of this parallel Hajj simulation. IEEE 2015 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56273/1/Towards%20accelerated%20agent-based%20crowd%20simulation%20for%20Hajj%20and%20Umrah.pdf Rahman, Abdur and Abdul Hamid, Nor Asilah Wati and Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan and Zafar, Basim (2015) Towards accelerated agent-based crowd simulation for Hajj and Umrah. In: 1st International Symposium on Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Robotics (ISAMSR 2015), 18-19 Aug. 2015, Putrajaya, Malaysia. (pp. 65-70). 10.1109/ISAMSR.2015.7379132
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description There are many scientific applications ranging from weather prediction to oil and gas exploration that requires high-performance computing. It aids industries and researchers to enrich further their advancements. With the advent of general purpose computing over GPUs, most of the applications above are shifting towards High-Performance Computing (HPC). Agent-based crowd simulation is one of the candidates that requires high-performance computing. This type of application is used to predict crowd movement in highly congested areas. One of the most crucial scenarios in which this application can be used is to mimic the movement of the multi-cultural crowd performing Hajj and Umrah in Masjid Al-Haram, Makkah. Adequate performance for an agent-based crowd system is a common problem in computer science. While the existing event planning software, specifically for Hajj and Umrah, are unable to provide the required performance. The main reason is the increasing amount of autonomous pilgrims every year. In this paper, we propose a high performance agent-based crowd simulation that represents pilgrim movement during these rituals. The performance is achieved by parallelizing an open source steering library called OpenSteer using CUDA over GPU. By using our technique, event organizers will be able to simulate large crowds and will also be able to predict whether the developed event plan is viable or not. We have also discussed the architecture and implementation of this parallel Hajj simulation.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Rahman, Abdur
Abdul Hamid, Nor Asilah Wati
Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan
Zafar, Basim
spellingShingle Rahman, Abdur
Abdul Hamid, Nor Asilah Wati
Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan
Zafar, Basim
Towards accelerated agent-based crowd simulation for Hajj and Umrah
author_facet Rahman, Abdur
Abdul Hamid, Nor Asilah Wati
Abdul Rahiman, Amir Rizaan
Zafar, Basim
author_sort Rahman, Abdur
title Towards accelerated agent-based crowd simulation for Hajj and Umrah
title_short Towards accelerated agent-based crowd simulation for Hajj and Umrah
title_full Towards accelerated agent-based crowd simulation for Hajj and Umrah
title_fullStr Towards accelerated agent-based crowd simulation for Hajj and Umrah
title_full_unstemmed Towards accelerated agent-based crowd simulation for Hajj and Umrah
title_sort towards accelerated agent-based crowd simulation for hajj and umrah
publisher IEEE
publishDate 2015
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/56273/1/Towards%20accelerated%20agent-based%20crowd%20simulation%20for%20Hajj%20and%20Umrah.pdf
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