Decision Support during Biological Incident Management: the Employment of Multi-agent Simulations
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چکیده
Decision making processes during biological incident management represent challenging and demanding as well as complex and important task. Various principles such as partial differential equations or Markov chains have been already utilized for the model development. Nevertheless, the multi-agent technologies can be also effectively employed. As an example, this paper presents model utilizable for the management of biological incidents created in the multi-agent NetLogo environment. The main contribution to the scientific field includes the characterization of specifics related to discussed type of decision-making process. Moreover, within the paper the description of the simulation model is provided, parameterization is explained, and areas for further research are outlined. Key-Words: Biological incident, Decision support, Epidemiology, Multi-agent technologies, NetLogo, Simulation
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