Utilizing model characteristics to obtain efficient parallelization in the context of agent based epidemiological models

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1555-1561

  Naron, Steven ^a   Wasserkrug, Segev ^b  

^a Steven Naron Associates   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; HEALTH;

AGENT BASED; AGENT BASED MODELLING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELING; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; PARALLEL SIMULATIONS; PARALLELIZATION; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; PROBLEM DOMAINS;

PARALLEL ALGORITHMS;

EID: 49749128076     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2007.4419772     Document Type: Conference Paper

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