An agent-based computational model for tuberculosis spreading on age-structured populations

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 428, Issue , 2015, Pages 52-59

  Graciani Rodrigues, C C ^a   Espíndola, Aquino L ^a   Penna, T J P ^a,b  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b CNPq   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Aging; Computational epidemiology; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AGING OF MATERIALS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

AGE STRUCTURED POPULATION; AGENT-BASED MODEL; BIT-STRING MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGIES; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EXPONENTIAL BEHAVIORS; POPULATION AGING; TUBERCULOSIS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84923545634     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.02.027     Document Type: Article

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