Simulating city-level airborne infectious diseases

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 97-105

  Mei, Shan ^a   Chen, Bin ^a   Zhu, Yifan ^a   Lees, M H ^b   Boukhanovsky, A V ^d   Sloot, P M A ^b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Epidemics; Geographical Information System (GIS); Infectious diseases; Multi Agent Systems (MAS)

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PATHOGENS; POPULATION STATISTICS; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN TRANSPORTATION; VIRUSES;

EPIDEMICS; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; INFECTION DYNAMICS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT; SPREADING CHARACTERISTICS; TRAFFIC INFORMATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; GIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; PATHOGEN; SPATIAL DATA; URBAN AREA; VIRUS;

CHINA;

EID: 85027950573     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.12.002     Document Type: Article

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