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Evacuation in an emergency is a complex behavior. When evacuation individuals are intelligent agents, an intelligent decision-making model is necessary to describe such a behavior. This paper elaborates how a modular model based on cellular automation is constructed with the advantages of information expression of cellular automation and behavioral expression of robots. The description of evacuation is realized through the assembly of such modules as evacuation time model, direction selection model and passage attraction model. When the model is used for describing the evacuation process of a hypermarket, the analog simulation and the data analysis show that it is effective in the descriptions of individual and group evacuations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]