Enhancing sustainability of complex epidemiological models through a generic multilevel agent-based approach

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 0, Issue , 2017, Pages 374-380

  Picault, Sébastien ^a,b   Huang, Yu Lin ^a   Sicard, Vianney ^a   Ezanno, Pauline ^a  

^a LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

AGENT-BASED APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE; CONTROL MEASURES; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELS; LIFE-SCIENCES; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 85031931811     PISSN: 10450823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.24963/ijcai.2017/53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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