Multi-agent systems in epidemiology: A first step for computational biology in the study of vector-borne disease transmission

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Roche, Benjamin ^a   Guégan, Jean François ^a,b   Bousquet, François ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b French School of Public Health   (France)

^c CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM MODEL; RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL ENVIRONMENTS; VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DISEASES; ECOSYSTEMS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; TOOLS; VECTORS;

BIOINFORMATICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VECTOR; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 57649207906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-435     Document Type: Article

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