A hybrid agent based and differential equation model of body size effects on pathogen replication and immune system response

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

Volumn 5666 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 14-18

  Banerjee, Soumya ^a   Moses, Melanie E ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; BODY SIZES; COMPUTATIONAL TRACTABILITY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION MODEL; HYBRID AGENTS; HYBRID MODEL; IMMUNE SYSTEMS; IS ARCHITECTURE; RESPONSE RATE; RESPONSE TIME; SCALE INVARIANCE; STAGE STRUCTURED;

ANTHROPOMETRY; IMMUNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SURVEYS;

PATHOGENS;

EID: 70350340093     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03246-2_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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