| dc.contributor.advisor | Deb K. Roy. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Jitapunkul, Thananat | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-05-09T15:15:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-05-09T15:15:22Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2010 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62656 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2010. | en_US |
| dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. | en_US |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Parameter search in an agent-based model of pedestrian movement in retail environments is part of a research effort by data-driven architecture in the Cognitive Machine Group at the MIT Media Lab. The approach pursued in this thesis is agent-based modeling, with an ultimate goal to use generative behaviors in agents to study effects of architectural and managerial decisions on retail environments. In this thesis, I designed and implemented an agent training module as a part of a software system which simulates and learns patterns of human pedestrian movement in retail environments. This thesis covers two different components: (1) the implementation of a hill-climbing training module and (2) a pedestrian path comparison metric. To measure the module's performance, the system is tested against video sequences collected from the actual retail environment. | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by Thananat Jitapunkul. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 107 p. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
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| dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. | en_US |
| dc.title | Parameter search in an agent-based model of pedestrian movement in retail environments | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | M.Eng. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 713705823 | en_US |
