Multi-agent Spatial SIR-Based Modeling and Simulation of Infection Spread Management

This paper proposes a multi-agent system for modeling and simulation of epidemics spread management strategies. The core of the proposed approach is a generic spatial Susceptible-Infected-Recovered stochastic discrete system. Our model aims at evaluating the effect of prophylactic and mobility limitation measures on the impact and magnitude of the epidemics spread. The paper introduces the modeling approach and, next, it proceeds to the development of a multi-agent simulation system. The proposed system is implemented and evaluated using the GAMA multi-agent platform, using several simulation scenarios, while the experimental results are discussed in detail. Our model is abstract and well defined, making it very suitable as a starting point for extension and application to more detailed models of the specific problems.

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