Modeling infectious diseases using global stochastic cellular automata

Journal of Biological Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 421-439

  Mikler, Armin R ^a   Venkatachalam, Sangeeta ^a   Abbas, Kaja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational Epidemiology; Global Stochastic Cellular Automata; Infectious Diseases

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844475181     PISSN: 02183390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218339005001604     Document Type: Article

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