Agent-based modelling: A case study in HIV epidemic

Proceedings - HIS'04: 4th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 154-159

  Teweldemedhin, Eyob ^a   Marwala, Tshilidzi ^b   Mueller, Conrad ^a  

^a School of Computer Science   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Human behaviour; Modelling HIV; Multi agent based simulation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; VIRUSES;

HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV); MODELING HIV; MULTI-AGENT BASED SIMULATION;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 28344454942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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