An Agent-Based Spatially Explicit Epidemiological Model in MASON

نویسنده

  • Jill Bigley Dunham
چکیده

This paper outlines the design and implementation of an agent-based epidemiological simulation system. The system was implemented in the MASON toolkit, a set of Java-based agent-simulation libraries. This epidemiological simulation system is robust and extensible for multiple applications, including classroom demonstrations of many types of epidemics and detailed numerical experimentation on a particular disease. The application has been made available as an applet on the MASON web site, and as source code on the author's web site.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

دوره 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006