MRSAT transmission reduction using agent-based modeling and simulation

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 635-646

  Barnes, Sean ^a   Golden, Bruce ^b   Wasil, Edward ^c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Health care; Probability; Simulation; Stochastic model applications

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649355575     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1100.0386     Document Type: Article

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