TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling and simulation of epidemic spread
T2 - 2013 9th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2013
AU - Shatnawi, Maad
AU - Lazarova-Molnar, Sanja
AU - Zaki, Nazar
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Epidemics have disturbed human lives for centuries causing massive numbers of deaths and illnesses among people and animals. As the number of urbanized and mobile population has increased, the possibility of a worldwide pandemic has grown too. The latest advances in high-performance computing and computational network science can help computational epidemiologists to develop large-scale high-fidelity models of epidemic spread. These models can help to characterize the large-scale patterns of epidemics and guide public health officials and policy makers in taking appropriate decisions to prevent and control such epidemics. This paper presents an overview of the epidemic spread modeling and simulation, and summarizes the main technical challenges in this field. It further investigates the most relevant recent approaches carried out towards this perspective and provides a comparison and classification of these approaches.
AB - Epidemics have disturbed human lives for centuries causing massive numbers of deaths and illnesses among people and animals. As the number of urbanized and mobile population has increased, the possibility of a worldwide pandemic has grown too. The latest advances in high-performance computing and computational network science can help computational epidemiologists to develop large-scale high-fidelity models of epidemic spread. These models can help to characterize the large-scale patterns of epidemics and guide public health officials and policy makers in taking appropriate decisions to prevent and control such epidemics. This paper presents an overview of the epidemic spread modeling and simulation, and summarizes the main technical challenges in this field. It further investigates the most relevant recent approaches carried out towards this perspective and provides a comparison and classification of these approaches.
KW - epidemic spread
KW - modeling
KW - review
KW - simulation
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U2 - 10.1109/Innovations.2013.6544404
DO - 10.1109/Innovations.2013.6544404
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84881096145
SN - 9781467362030
T3 - 2013 9th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2013
SP - 118
EP - 123
BT - 2013 9th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, IIT 2013
Y2 - 17 March 2013 through 19 March 2013
ER -