Multiscale Modeling of Pedestrian Dynamics van Oystaeyen collaboration tools) Pathologisches Institut der Universität collaboration tools) Other additions include an explanation of how to develop system designs that can efficiently acc modate real time control strategies to manage uncertainty (new section 4 The background idea is indeed that most of the complex trends exhibited by crowds are due to an intrinsic interplay between individual and collective behaviors The modeling approach promoted in this book pursues actively this intuition and profits from it for designing general mathematical structures susceptible of application also in fields different from the inspiring original one