Extending the event calculus for tracking epidemic spread

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-156

  Chaudet, Hervé ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Epidemic spread; Event aggregation; Event representation; Outbreak report representation; Spatiotemporal representation

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EPIDEMIC SPREAD; EVENT AGGREGATION; EVENT REPRESENTATION; OUTBREAK REPORT REPRESENTATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL REPRESENTATION;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; E-MAIL; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC MEASUREMENTS; HUMANS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33750629375     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artmed.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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