Semi-automated initialization of simulations: An application to healthcare

Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 171-182

  Padilla, Jose J ^a   Diallo, Saikou Y ^a   Kavak, Hamdi ^b,c   Sahin, Olcay ^b   Sokolowski, John A ^a   Gore, Ross J ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

^c TURKISH MILITARY ACADEMY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Data mining; Information extraction; Simulation initialization; Social media

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AUTOMATED APPROACH; CULTURAL BEHAVIOR MODELING; ERROR PRONES; INPUT VARIABLES; SIMULATION INITIALIZATIONS; SIMULATION MODEL; SOCIAL MEDIA; US CENSUS BUREAU;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84966460014     PISSN: 15485129     EISSN: 1557380X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1548512914565503     Document Type: Article

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