Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Applied mathematics, Computer Sciences, Infectious diseases, Epidemiology

Publication Details

26th AIAI Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science

Abstract

There are two main methods that are used to model the spread of an infectious disease: agent-based modelling and equation based modelling. In this paper, we compare the results from an example implementation of each method, and show that although the agent-based model takes longer to setup and run, it provides additional information that is not available when using an equation based model. Specifically, the ability of the agent-based model to capture heterogeneous mixing and agent interactions enables it to give a better overall view of an outbreak. We compare the performance of both models by simulating a measles outbreak in 33 different Irish towns and measuring the outcomes of this outbreak.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/rtq2-hs52

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