Strategies for Efficient Numerical Implementation of Hybrid Multi-scale Agent-Based Models to Describe Biological Systems

Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 119-136

  Cilfone, Nicholas A ^a   Kirschner, Denise E ^b   Linderman, Jennifer J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Hybrid modeling; Linking models; Multi scale modeling; Numerical implementation; Tuneable resolution

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING DIRECTION EXPLICIT METHOD; ANALYTIC METHOD; DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM METHOD; DISCRETE SINE TRANSFORM METHOD; DISEASE MODEL; FORWARD EULER METHOD; FORWARD TIME CENTRAL SPACE METHOD; HYBRID MULTISCALE AGENT BASED MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REVIEW; RUNGE KUTTA METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84925484533     PISSN: 18655025     EISSN: 18655033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12195-014-0363-6     Document Type: Review

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