Toward optimal resource-allocation for control of epidemics: An agent-based-simulation approach

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2237-2248

  Kasaie, Parastu ^a   Kelton, W David ^a   Vaghefi, Abolfazl ^b   Jalali Naini, S G R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED SIMULATION MODELS; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; COSTS AND BENEFITS; ITERATIVE PROCEDURES; LINEAR SCALING; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; REALISTIC MODEL; RESPONSE-SURFACE METHODOLOGY; SIMULATION APPROACH;

DISEASE CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 79951640824     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2010.5678922     Document Type: Conference Paper

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