One of my projects
Posted by Phil Henshaw-2 on
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Not sure what happened to my last post to try to clarify the question, but
another thought occurred to me this AM
Maybe a way to look at an epidemic from the active management point of view,
and an epidemic as an autonomous agent itself, is to consider it as
exploiting the passive resource of infection pathways in a community. Any
particular epidemic may be using the familiar ones, or some unfamiliar ones.
It may discover new ones in the course of events. The question is how to
use models to help people a) identify the interruptible links in the
pathways an epidemic is exploiting?, and b) how to tell when the epidemic
has changed to exploit some new unseen pathway that a new intervention
strategy will be needed for?
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Re: [FRIAM] One of my projects
Douglas Roberts
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 09:05:26 -0800
Phil,
I did read your question, repeated below:
Cool, do you include any comparative natural system component? Perhaps
working with better ways to identify system structures in natural systems
and early signs of when they are inventing new ones would be helpful in
developing tests for models that approximate the complexity of nature.
However, I found it to be sufficiently ambiguous that I had absolutely no
idea what was being asked, and thus found myself at a complete loss for a
response.
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