Simulation of influenza epidemics with a hybrid model - combining cellular automata and agent based features
Stefan Emrich, Felix Breitenecker, Günther Zauner, Niki Popper · 2008
To understand and predict epidemic patterns ODEs and PDEs have been used since the beginning of the last century. But these approaches have a quite relevant shortcoming. Trying to model a multiply heterogeneous population (e.g. with individual characteristics, varying population densities) increases complexity beyond limits. To bring individual effects into epidemic models a new approach is necessary.