RETRACTED: Agent-based simulation of fire emergency evacuation with fire and human interaction model

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the editor as the authors have plagiarized part of the Fire Dynamics Simulator with Evacuation: FDS+Evac Technical Reference and User's Guide that had already appeared on http://www.vtt.fi/fdsevac/ and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 1019-5 NIST Special Publication (Version 5) User's Guide Natl. Inst. Stand. Technol. Spec. Publ. 1019-5, 210 pages (October 2007) CODEN: NSPUE2. One of the conditions of submission of a paper for publication is that authors declare explicitly that their work is original and has not appeared in a publication elsewhere. Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. The scientific community takes a very strong view on this matter and apologies are offered to readers of the journal that this was not detected during the submission process.