The consistency of the pandemic simulations between the SEIR model and the MAS model

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E92-A, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1558-1562

  Toyosaka, Yuki ^a   Hirose, Hideo ^a  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

MAS model; Network model; Pandemic simulation; Runge Kutta method; SEIR model; SIR model; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SUPERCOMPUTERS; TERRORISM;

INITIAL AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; LARGE-SCALE MODELING; MULTI AGENT SIMULATION; NETWORK MODELING; PANDEMIC SIMULATION; POPULATION SIZES; SEIR MODELS; SIR MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 80052527691     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: 17451337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transfun.E92.A.1558     Document Type: Article

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