Population-based simulation for public health: Generic software infrastructure and its application to osteoporosis

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1396-1409

  Durand, Audrey ^a   Gagné, Christian ^a   Nshimyumukiza, Léon ^a   Gagnon, Mathieu ^a   Rousseau, François ^a   Giguere, Yves ^a   Reinharz, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer aided analysis; computer simulation; discrete time systems; public health care

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CONFIGURATION FILES; DECISION MAKERS; DISCRETE TIME SYSTEM; GENERIC SOFTWARES; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; POLICY MAKING; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE; SOFTWARE STACKS;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; DISEASES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOFTWARE AGENTS; XML;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84867823872     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2012.2210210     Document Type: Article

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