BMC Infectious Diseases

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Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: Agent-based versus structured metapopulation models

Marco Ajelli1, Bruno Gonçalves2, Duygu Balcan2, Vittoria Colizza3, Hao Hu4, José J Ramasco3, Stefano Merler1 and Alessandro Vespignani2,3,4,5*

  • * Corresponding author: Alessandro Vespignani alexv@indiana.edu

  • † Equal contributors

Author Affiliations

1 Predictive Models for Biomedicine and Environment, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, Italy

2 Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA

3 Computational Epidemiology Laboratory, Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation, Turin, Italy

4 Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA

5 Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47404, USA

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BMC Infectious Diseases 2010, 10:190 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-10-190

Published: 29 June 2010

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Supplementary information comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: Agent-based versus structured metapopulation models. A single pdf file 22 pages, the figures are embedded in the pdf.

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