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A Declarative Modelling Language for the Design of Complex Structured Agent-Based Epidemiological Models

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Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection (PAAMS 2022)

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To provide realistic accounts of disease spread in host populations, epidemiological modelling requires ever-finer details, including a complex spatio-temporal structuring. Multi-level agent based systems have proven effective in tackling such epidemiological dynamics, revealing nevertheless the need for coupling multi-level architectures and organizational features. The solution proposed here attempts to overcome this challenging task, through the development of a declarative domain-specific language to facilitate the separation of concerns and thus expert knowledge integration. We illustrate our approach with an application to the spread of the swine Influenza A between the batches and buildings of a pig farm, to demonstrate the impact of control measures based on modifications of the structural farm features.

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This work is supported by a grant from the Animal Health division of INRAE (French national research institute for agriculture, food, and environment) and the French region Pays de la Loire.

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    Vianney Sicard & Sébastien Picault

  2. ANSES, Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort Laboratory, Health and Welfare Research Unit, Ploufragan, France

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  3. University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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Sicard, V., Andraud, M., Picault, S. (2022). A Declarative Modelling Language for the Design of Complex Structured Agent-Based Epidemiological Models. In: Dignum, F., Mathieu, P., Corchado, J.M., De La Prieta, F. (eds) Advances in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Complex Systems Simulation. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13616. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18192-4_31

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