Epirur-Cattle: A spatially explicit agent-based simulator of beef cattle movements

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages 857-865

  Liu, Hong ^a   Schumm, Phillip ^a   Lyubinin, Anton ^a   Scoglio, Caterina ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based simulation; Cattle epidemics; Network metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886778660     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.04.092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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