An individual-based model of influenza in nosocomial environments

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

Volumn 5101 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2008, Pages 590-599

  Ong, Boon Som ^a   Chen, Mark ^b   Lee, Vernon ^b   Tay, Joc Cing ^a  

^a Innovation Centre   (Singapore)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Contact patterns; Epidemiology; Influenza; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; AGENT BASED MODELS (ABM); AGENT-BASED; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES; CONTACT TRACING; DISEASE DYNAMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELING; FIELD SURVEYS; FINITE POPULATIONS; HEIDELBERG (CO); HIGH HETEROGENEITY; INDIVIDUAL BASED MODEL (IBM); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; OUTBREAK SIZE; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; PRECISE SIMULATION; RATE OF INCREASE; SINGAPORE; SOCIAL BEHAVIORS; THRESHOLD LEVELS;

MODELS;

EID: 47749099761     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69384-0_64     Document Type: Conference Paper

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