Impact of social behaviors on HIV epidemic: A computer simulation view

Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, CIMCA 2005 and International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 550-556

  Sumodhee, C ^a   Hsieh, J L ^a   Sun, C T ^a   Huang, C Y ^b   Chen, Arthur Y M ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b YUANPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH DEPARTMENTS; HIV/AIDS; HOMOSEXUAL COMMUNITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS; VIRUSES;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 33847243316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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