Tracking infectious disease spread for global pandemic containment

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 60-64

  Tsui, Kwok Leung ^a   Wong, Zoie Shui Yee ^a   Goldsman, David ^b   Edesess, Michael ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AI; artificial intelligence; infectious diseases; intelligent systems; simulation; virus containment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894516586     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2013.149     Document Type: Article

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