Title :
Computational Epidemiology in a Connected World
Author :
Apolloni, Andrea ; Kumar, V. S Anil ; Marathe, Madhav V. ; Swarup, Samarth
Abstract :
New technologies help epidemiologists model the socioeconomic context of disease outbreaks. Epidemiologists and computer scientists are developing new data-driven, high-performance-computing-powered inference engines to model the socioeconomic context and strategies necessary to counter disease outbreaks.
Keywords :
diseases; epidemics; inference mechanisms; medical information systems; socio-economic effects; computational epidemiology; computer scientists; disease; epidemiologists; high performance computing; inference engines; socioeconomic context; Context modeling; Counting circuits; Diseases; Engines; Artificial intelligence; Epidemiology; Scientific computing; Synthetic information environments;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2009.386
