Using an agent-based model to evaluate the effect of producer specialization on the epidemiological resilience of livestock production networks

SW Wiltshire - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
An agent-based computer model that builds representative regional US hog production
networks was developed and employed to assess the potential impact of the ongoing trend …

Modeling direct transmission diseases using parallel bitstring agent-based models

RL Rizzi, WL Kaizer, CB Rizzi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Agent-based models (ABMs) are gaining importance over traditional epidemiological
modeling due to advances in computing technology and catalyzed by the need for detailed …

Size effect in cellular automata based disease spreading model

J Orzechowska, D Fordon, TM Gwizdałła - Cellular Automata: 13th …, 2018 - Springer
In our paper we use the, recently proposed, model for simulating the process of disease
spreading in the environment defined by the Cellular Automaton. The main effort goes to the …

Cellular automata beyond 100k cores: MPI vs Fortran coarrays

A Shterenlikht, L Cebamanos - Proceedings of the 25th European MPI …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Fortran coarrays are an attractive alternative to MPI due to a familiar Fortran syntax, single
sided communications and implementation in the compiler. Scaling of coarrays is compared …