I have carried out some fundamental research on Egress Complexity along with
Drs Taylor, Pollock and Livesey.  Recent work has been on the normalisation
of complexity and Gillian Livesey a recent PhD student of mine presented a
paper on the link with SS in the last SS symposium in London.

You might like to look at:

1. Egress Complexity of a Building. Proc. 4th Int. Symposium on Fire Safety
Sci. University of Ottawa, pp 601-612, (1994). (With AJ Pollock & IR
Taylor).

A Framework for Interfacing CAD with KBS to Support Fire Safety and Other
Evaluations. Chapter in Fire Safety Modelling & Building Design, (1994 Conf.
organised by ABE & University of Salford), pp 99-108, (1995). (With AJ
Pollock & IR Taylor).  ALSO
  1.. A Mathematical Basis for Egress Complexity. Appl. Math. Lett. Vol
9(2), pp 75-80, (1996). (With AJ Pollock)

  2.. Algorithms for the Calculation of Egress Complexity. Chapter in Fire
Engineering and Emergency Planning (Ed. R.Barham) E&FN Spon, London, pp
39-46, (1996). (With AJ Pollock)

  3.. A Revised Interface for Evacnet+. Interflam'96 Cambridge, Fire Safety
Proc. Interscience, pp 1013-1017, (1996). (With AJ Pollock & IR Taylor)

  4.. The Dynamic System of Egress Complexity. CESA'98, Computational
Engineering in Systems Applications-2nd IMACS and IEEE Int. Multiconference,
Tunisia. pp295- 300, (1998) (With TBM McMaster)

  5.. Evaluating Feasibility, Accessibility and Manoeuvrability: A Knowledge
Based Systems Approach. Proceedings International Symposium on Human
Behaviour in Fires. pp.601-608. (1998) (with Taylor, IR)

  6.. How Complex is the Egress Capability of Your Design?, "Human Behaviour
in Fire" First International Symposium, Europa Hotel Belfast,(Ed. TJ
Shields,University of Ulster), pp601-608, (1998). (with Taylor, IR)

  7.. Illustrating Some Rule Based Algorithms of Egress Complexity using
Simple Case Studies. Journal of Applied Fire Science. Vol. 8, No.3, pp.
243-258, (1999).(With Taylor, I.R. Christie, G. and Livesey, G.)

  Which Way Out? A User's Guide to Modelling Evacuation from Buildings.
Proc. Research in the Built Environment, Salford University 10/03/00,
pp.395-405, (2000). (With Livesey, G.E. and Taylor, I.R.)
  8.. A Consideration of Evacuation Attributes and their Functional
Sensitivities.  Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Human
Behaviour in Fire, MIT, Boston, pp.111-122, (2001). (With Livesey, G.E. and
Taylor, I.R.)
  9.. Modelling Evacuation Data.  Proceedings of 9th Interflam International
Conference on Fire Science and Engineering. Heriot Watt University,
Scotland, pp. 883-885, (2001). (With Livesey, G.E. and Taylor, I.R.)
  10.. Some Rule Based Algorithms of Egress Complexity using Simple Case
Studies. Evacuation from Fires - Applied Fire Science in Transition Series
Vol. ii, (Editor Paul R. DeCicco), pp. 123-138, (2002).(With Taylor, I.R.
Christie, G. and Livesey, G.)
  11.. The Potential of Expert Systems in Fire Safety Evaluation.  Computer
Applications in Fire Protection Engineering - Applied Fire Science in
Transition Series Vol. iii, (Editor Paul R. DeCicco), pp.35-52, (2002).
(With Taylor, I.R.)
  12.. Formal Aspects of Egress Complexity, J.Mathl. Comp. Modelling,
Vol.35, pp.119-128, (2002) (With McMaster, T.B.M.).

  13.. Addressing Normalisation in the Pursuit of Comparable Integration,
SPACE SYNTAX 4th International Symposium, Published: University College
London, Vol 2, ISBN 0-9535456-3-6, pp.64.2-64.10, 17th-19th June (2003)
(With Livesey, G.).

  14.. Upper and Lower Bounds of Egress Complexity, IJPAM, Vol 7, No 4,
pp.487-497, (2003) (With Livesey, G. and McMaster, T


Dr HA Donegan
Reader
School of Computing and Mathematics
University of Ulster
Jordanstown
BT37 0QB

Tel: 028 90 366589
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