Agent-Based Models

Agent-Based Models  computer models that study complex epidemiological systems with computer simulations. Within an ABM, every individual is represented  as an agent. Agents interact among each other and with an environment to create the complex network of interactions and feedbacks typical of infectious diseases transmission (Pizzitutti et al., 2018).

 

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Pizzitutti, F., Pan, W., Feingold, B., Zaitchik, B., Álvarez, C. A., and Mena, C. F. "Out of the net: An agent-based model to study human movements influence on local-scale malaria transmission." PloS one, 13(3), (2018): e0193493.

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