2021
Journal article  Open Access

UTLDR: an agent-based framework for modeling infectious diseases and public interventions

Rossetti G., Milli L., Citraro S., Morini V.

Activity driven networks  Agent-based modelling  Compartmental models  Epidemics 

Due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, epidemic modeling is now experiencing a constantly growing interest from researchers of heterogeneous study fields. Indeed, due to such an increased attention, several software libraries and scientific tools have been developed to ease the access to epidemic modeling. However, only a handful of such resources were designed with the aim of providing a simple proxy for the study of the potential effects of public interventions (e.g., lockdown, testing, contact tracing). In this work, we introduce UTLDR, a framework that, overcoming such limitations, allows to generate "what if" epidemic scenarios incorporating several public interventions (and their combinations). UTLDR is designed to be easy to use and capable to leverage information provided by stratified populations of agents (e.g., age, gender, geographical allocation, and mobility patterns...). Moreover, the proposed framework is generic and not tailored for a specific epidemic phenomena: it aims to provide a qualitative support to understanding the effects of restrictions, rather than produce forecasts/explanation of specific data-driven phenomena.

Source: Journal of intelligent information systems (2021). doi:10.1007/s10844-021-00649-6

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston , Paesi Bassi


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@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:456587,
	title = {UTLDR: an agent-based framework for modeling infectious diseases and public interventions},
	author = {Rossetti G. and Milli L. and Citraro S. and Morini V.},
	publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston , Paesi Bassi},
	doi = {10.1007/s10844-021-00649-6},
	journal = {Journal of intelligent information systems},
	year = {2021}
}

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