EpiGraph: A Scalable Simulation Tool for Epidemiological Studies
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چکیده
This paper presents a novel approach to modeling the propagation of the flu virus throughout a realistic interconnection network based on actual individual interactions which we extract from social networks. We allow the individual interconnections to change during the propagation by making them time-dependent. We have implemented a scalable, fully distributed simulator and we validated the epidemic model by comparing the simulation results against those of another epidemic simulator, with similar prediction values and better performance. We then performed an extensive analysis of the effects of the new features of our approach on the results of the simulations.
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