Verification and Validation of Evacuation Models – Methodology Expansion Proposition

In November 2013, Technical Note 1822: The Process of Verification and Validation of Building Fire Evacuation Models was released by NIST. The note was intended to open discussion about evacuation modeling, rather than provide definitive guidelines. The aim of our paper is to add creative contribution to V&V topic.We propose adding some qualitative tests and distinguishing a base set of tests for all kinds of models from extended set of tests for specialized models. Moreover, the inclusion of additional tests is suggested, as well as the inclusion of some improvements and extensions to the tests proposed in the note.