Simulating sleeping sickness: A two host agent-based model

Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems: Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 27-34

  Alderton, Simon ^a   Noble, Jason ^a   Atkinson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DISEASES; DYNAMIC MODELS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PUBLIC POLICY; SIMULATION PLATFORM; SLEEP RESEARCH;

'CURRENT; AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED MODEL; CURRENT MODELING; IN-FIELD; MODELING METHODOLOGY; POLICY EVALUATION; REACTION-DIFFUSION MODELS; SIMPLE REACTION; SLEEPING SICKNESS;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 85008608806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.7551/978-0-262-31709-2-ch005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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