id: 05949519 dt: a an: 05949519 au: Bandini, Stefania; Manenti, Lorenza; Manzoni, Luca; Manzoni, Sara ti: Dealing with crowd crystals in MAS-based crowd simulation: A proposal. so: Pirrone, Roberto (ed.) et al., AI*IA 2011: Artificial intelligence around man and beyond. XIIth international conference of the Italian association for artificial intelligence, Palermo, Italy, September 15‒17, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-23953-3/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6934. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 92-103 (2011). py: 2011 pu: Berlin: Springer la: EN cc: ut: crowd; groups; agent-based model; proxemics ci: li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23954-0_11 ab: Summary: The paper presents an agent-based model for the explicit representation of groups of pedestrians in a crowd. The model is the result of a multidisciplinary research (CRYSTALS project) where multicultural dynamics and spatial and socio-cultural relationships among individuals are considered as first class elements for the simulation of crowd of pilgrims taking to the annual pilgrimage towards Makkah. After an introduction of advantages of Multi-Agent System approach for pedestrian dynamics modelling, a formal description of the model is proposed. The scenario in which the model was developed and some examples about modelling heterogeneous groups of pedestrians are described. rv: