Indemics: Interactive Computing Framework for Data Intensive Epidemic Modeling
2014
The design and prototype implementation of Indemics (Interactive EpidemicSimulation) is described, a modeling environment utilizing high-performance computing technologies for supporting complex epidemic simulations. Indemics can support policy analysts and epidemiologists interested in planning and control of pandemics.
Indemics goes beyond traditional epidemic simulations by providing a way to represent and analyze policy-based as well as individual-based adaptive interventions. Users can also stop the simulation at any point, assess the state of the simulated system, and add additional interventions. Indemics is available to end-users via a web-based interface.
Detailed performance analysis shows that Indemics enhances the capability and productivity of simulating complex intervention strategies with a marginal decrease in performance. The authors demonstrate how Indemics was applied in some real case studies where complex interventions were implemented.
Indemics: Interactive Computing Framework for Data Intensive Epidemic Modeling
Source:
Bisset KR, Chen J, Deodhar S et al. Indemics: An Interactive High-Performance Computing Framework for Data Intensive Epidemic Modeling. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 2014; 24 (1). http://doi.org/10.1145/2501602