A paper proposing causal inference techniques for predicting guidance effects on crowd movements was accepted for AAMAS 2021:
Koh Takeuchi, Ryo Nishida, Hisashi Kashima, Masaki Onishi.
Grab the Reins of Crowds: Estimating the Effects of Crowd Movement Guidance Using Causal Inference.
In Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2021.