Review on Psychological Crowd Model Based on LeBon’s Theory
Abstract: Irrational crowds
tend to adapt herd mentality, having group behaviour and high suggestion through
interaction. It is important to see how an irrational crowd can be controlled
to prevent undesirable crowd attitude. This paper reviews existing models and
the controllers to provide a comprehensive study for crowd control. It focuses
on a comprehensive analysis of the control of psychological crowd, modeled using
LeBon’s theory; which defines the crowd behaviour in terms of crowd attitude.
The crowd attitude is defined in terms of suggestibility and prestige and the
crowd interaction is defined in terms of the interaction of prestige and
suggestibility, which is naturally unstable. A controller is required to
achieve stability. In this paper several control approaches are described and
the best control approach is highlighted. The results conclude, the best control
approach is using multiple control agents, since the control effort is reduced
and the stabilizing time is improved.
Author: Vahid Behtaji Siahkal
Mahalleh, Hazlina Selamat, Fargham Sandhu
Journal Code: jptkomputergg170089
