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Escape panic, brought on by groups of people being in a life-threatening situation, increases the fatality rate and level of property damage incurred during unfortunate disasters. Currently buildings are designed to a code that tells how many exits a room should possess, but the code does not specify where to place the doors and exactly how many doors there should be in room designs to help alleviate damages to people and property. A genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimizer will be used to find a room design to help alleviate this problem."><meta itemprop="datePublished" content="May 15, 2006"><div class="page__inner-wrap"><header><h1 class="page__title" itemprop="headline">Alleviating Escape Panic using Evolutionary Intelligence</h1><p>Published in <i>Auburn University Electronic Theses and Dissertations</i>, 2006</p></header><section class="page__content" itemprop="text"><p>The contents above will be part of a list of publications, if the user clicks the link for the publication than the contents of section will be rendered as a full page, allowing you to provide more information about the paper for the reader. When publications are displayed as a single page, the contents of the above “citation” field will automatically be included below this section in a smaller font.</p><p style="font-size: smaller">Recommended citation: S. S. 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