TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Vol 15, No 2: June 2017

Review on Psychological Crowd Model Based on LeBon’s Theory

Vahid Behtaji Siahkal Mahalleh (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Hazlina Selamat (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)
Fargham Sandhu (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Mar 2017

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, modelled 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.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

TELKOMNIKA

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

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Submitted papers are evaluated by anonymous referees by single blind peer review for contribution, originality, relevance, and presentation. The Editor shall inform you of the results of the review as soon as possible, hopefully in 10 weeks. Please notice that because of the great number of ...