One of my projects

Posted by Douglas Roberts-2 on
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Well, ok.


   1. I have no idea what an "active management point of view" means.
   2. An epidemic is not an agent.  The epidemic is the emergent behavior
   of the system in response to a pathogen being introduced into the population
   of agents (people, it this case) in the system being simulated.
   3. I have no idea what "exploiting the passive resource of infection
   pathways" means.

Phil, I strongly recommend that before you invest much more time asking
questions about agent based models and their use that you actually build one
yourself.  And then run it.  Until then, I suspect your ability understand
the basic underlying principles of ABM technology will be somewhat limited.

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On 4/2/07, Phil Henshaw <sy at synapse9.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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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