HPCgen - A fast generator of contact networks of large urban cities for epidemiological studies

CSSim 2009 - 1st International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Modelling, and Simulation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 198-203

  Zhang, Tianyou ^a   Soh, Soon Hong ^a   Fu, Xiuju ^a   Lee, Kee Khoon ^a   Wong, Limsoon ^b   Ma, Stefan ^c   Xiao, Gaoxi ^d   Kwoh, Chee Keong ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; ANALYTICAL MODELING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CONTACT BEHAVIOR; CONTACT NETWORKS; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; REALISTIC MODELING; RUNTIMES; SINGAPORE; URBAN SETTINGS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 74549148913     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSSim.2009.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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