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Modeling the Spreading of Airborne Infectious Diseases in a City

Mei Shan, He Hua, Zhu Yifan   

  1. Information System and Management College, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073
  • Received:2016-03-13 Online:2016-08-28 Published:2016-09-24

Abstract:

Highly populated urban environment stimulates the spreading of infectious diseases, especially airborne diseases. Airborne infectious diseases transmit well between randomly encountered strangers and thus call for effective interventions. Geographical information, city partitions, traffic and transportation, individual mobility patterns, and individual behavior etc. are incorporated to model the spreading of airborne infectious diseases in a city. Multi-agent systems are adopted to conduct the simulations of disease spreading. Experimentation on influenza A (H1N1) spreading is performed, which validates the presented model. The study can help assess the influence of transmissions taking place at public transportation on the spreading of airborne infectious diseases in a city.

Key words: Geographical Information System (GIS), Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), infectious diseases, airborne diseases, transportation networks