Discrete-event systems model of an outbreak response

During an outbreak of an infectious disease the public health unit has several strategies which can be imposed to contain the spread of the disease. In order to do so it is necessary to evaluate the efficiency of different response policies according to the specific setting of the outbreak. In this work we present a new approach to model such infectious disease outbreaks using discrete-event systems. This approach allows us to adapt the system easily to specific settings or new diseases. Thus, using our model the health units would be able to determine an optimal response to a threatening outbreak.