Digital library support for public health simulation infrastructures

Epidemiological simulation environments produce extremely large quantities of scientific, numeric digital objects. Traditional digital libraries and services fail to effectively support simulation-based tasks. The requirements for this class of digital libraries can be described through formal definitions of content, users, and services. The set of definitions provide a basis for developing a simulation supporting digital library. Using formal definitions, services may be described, implemented, and reused. User studies are used to quantify the efficiency gains in DL generation, usability of services to complete tasks, and support for designing and conducting simulation experiments.