MAKKSim: MAS-Based Crowd Simulations for Designer’s Decision Support

This paper presents MAKKSim, a pedestrian dynamics simulator based on a computational discrete model in which pedestrians are represented as utility-based agents. The computational model and the system architecture are discussed, focusing on the development of the tool and on its application in a real-word case study, for the comparison and the evaluation of different strategies of crowd management and of different structural changes on the geometry of the environment.