The objective of this workshop is to provide participants an introduction to agent-based modeling of 
crowd dynamics. A summary of pedestrian socio-psychological egress behavior will be presented 
together with an outline of existing modeling techniques and software tools. A detailed description of a 
simple crowd model that can be implemented using MATLAB will be presented. Participants will learn 
how to develop a simple yet fully functional simulation and visualization of crowd dynamics. Skeleton 
Matlab scripts will be available for download from www.sanithw.org starting July 1st, 2005 but will also 
be available via PC/MAC compatible USB drives during the workshop.