02126nab a2200241 4500 20260520001113.0 260224s2016 xxu ing Inglés Assessing the Verification and Validation of Building Fire Evacuation Models ene. 2016 25/07/2016 ; 25/07/2016 22 p. ; 197-219 Transcripción del resúmen realizada por el autor: To date there is no International standard on the verification and validation (V&V) of building fire evacuation models, i.e., model testers adopt inconsistent procedures or tests designed for other model uses. For instance, the tests presented within the MSC/Circ.1238 Guidelines for evacuation analysis for new and existing passenger ships provided by the International Maritime Organization are often employed for the V&V of models outside their original context of use (building fires instead of maritime applications). This paper presents a list of verification tests for component testing and the analysis of emergent behaviours together with examples of experimental data-sets suitable for the analysis of different core components. The capabilities of building fire evacuation models are evaluated by studying their five main core components, namely (1) pre-evacuation time, (2) movement and navigation, (3) exit usage, (4) route availability and (5) flow constraints. This paper discusses the tests which are included in a freely available Technical Note developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is intended to open a discussion on the main issues associated with the definition of a standard procedure for the V&V of building fire evacuation models, including the definition of the acceptance criteria of a standard V&V protocol. 1 Fire Technology 52 ARTICULO Ronchi, Enrico 55471 Nilsson, Daniel 55472 Kuligowski, Erica D. 55473 Peacock, Richard D. 32724 Reneke, Paul A. 32726 189654 189654 0 0 0 0 257473 BAAB BAAB 2026-03-06 200061894 0 200061894 2026-03-06 00:19:48 2026-03-06 ARTICULO