Agent based simulation model for obesity epidemic analysis

1st International Workshop on Innovative Simulation for Health Care, IWISH 2012, Held at the International Multidisciplinary Modeling and Simulation Multiconference, I3M 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 195-203

  Bruzzone, Agostino ^a   Novak, Vera ^b   Madeo, Francesca ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MM and S Net ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Health Care; Human Behavior Modeling; Intelligent Agents; Obesity; Simulation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; NUTRITION; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

AGENT-BASED SIMULATION MODELS; COMPUTER GENERATED FORCES; CULTURAL CONDITIONS; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; HUMAN BEHAVIOR MODELING; HUMAN BEHAVIOR MODELS; OBESITY; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84898782503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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