Model alignment of anthrax attack simulations

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 654-668

  Chen, Li Chiou ^a   Carley, Kathleen M ^a   Fridsma, Douglas ^b   Kaminsky, Boris ^a,c   Yahja, Alex ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Anthrax; Bioinformatics; Biosurveillance; Model alignment; Simulations

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; ANTHRAX; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSURVEILLANCE; MODEL ALIGNMENT; SIMULATIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 32544457275     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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