Aligning simulation models of smallpox outbreaks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3073, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-16

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

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

BIOTERRORIST ATTACKS; BOX MODELS; COMPLEX AGENT; CONTAGIOUS DISEASE; MODEL RESULTS; MULTI-AGENT MODEL; TIME COURSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

EID: 35048902548     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-25952-7_1     Document Type: Article

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