Exploring HIV/AIDS epidemic complex network of IDU using ABM and GIS

2009 Chinese Control and Decision Conference, CCDC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1090-1095

  Cui, Qingxiong ^a   Wang, Jun ^b   Tan, Junxiang ^a   Li, Jiangrong ^a   Yang, Kun ^a  

^a YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling(ABM); Complex social network; Geographic information system (GIS); HIV spread; Intravenous drug use(IDU)

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODELING; AGENT-BASED MODELING(ABM); BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPLEX SOCIAL NETWORK; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CULTURAL PRACTICES; GEOGRAPHICAL POSITIONS; HETEROGENEOUS OBJECT; HIV INFECTION; HIV SPREAD; HIV/AIDS; INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR; INTRAVENOUS DRUG USE(IDU); LOW LEVEL; MODEL SIMULATION; NETWORK-BASED; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORKS; YUNNAN PROVINCE;

DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH RISKS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RISK PERCEPTION; SIMULATORS; VIRUSES;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449408268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCDC.2009.5191828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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