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

Nowadays, due to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, epidemic modeling is experiencing a constantly growing interest from researchers of heterogeneous fields of study. Indeed, the vast literature on computational epidemiology offers solid grounds for analytical studies and the definition of novel models aimed at both predictive and prescriptive scenario descriptions. To ease the access to diffusion modeling, several programming libraries and tools have been proposed during the last decade: however, to the best of our knowledge, none of them is explicitly designed to allow its users to integrate public interventions in their model. In this work, we introduce UTLDR, a framework that can simulate the effects of several public interventions (and their combinations) on the unfolding of epidemic processes. UTLDR enables the design of compartmental models incrementally and to simulate them over complex interaction network topologies. Moreover, it allows integrating external information on the analyzed population (e.g., age, gender, geographical allocation, and mobility patterns. . . ) and to use it to stratify and refine the designed model. After introducing the framework, we provide a few case studies to underline its flexibility and expressive power.

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Creator Rossetti, Giulio
Creator Milli, Letizia
Creator Citraro, Salvatore
Creator Morini, Virginia
DOI 10.1007/s10844-021-00649-6
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Publisher Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Source Arxiv
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Author Braghieri Marco
Maintainer Braghieri Marco
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Last Updated 14 October 2022, 15:20 (CEST)
Created 25 July 2022, 11:06 (CEST)