Bisset Keith R, Chen Jiangzhuo, Deodhar Suruchi, Feng Xizhou, Ma Yifei, Marathe Madhav V
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech.
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech.
ACM Trans Model Comput Simul. 2014 Jan;24(1). doi: 10.1145/2501602.
We describe the design and prototype implementation of Indemics (Interactive EpidemicSimulation)-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 simple and powerful way to represent and analyze policy-based as well as individual-based . 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 greatly enhances the capability and productivity of simulating complex intervention strategies with a marginal decrease in performance. We also demonstrate how Indemics was applied in some real case studies where complex interventions were implemented.
我们描述了Indemics(交互式流行病模拟)的设计和原型实现,这是一个利用高性能计算技术来支持复杂流行病模拟的建模环境。Indemics能够为关注大流行病规划与控制的政策分析师和流行病学家提供支持。Indemics超越了传统的流行病模拟,它提供了一种简单而强大的方式来表示和分析基于政策以及基于个体的情况。用户还可以在任何时候停止模拟,评估模拟系统的状态,并添加额外的干预措施。最终用户可以通过基于网络的界面使用Indemics。详细的性能分析表明,Indemics在性能略有下降的情况下,极大地提高了模拟复杂干预策略的能力和效率。我们还展示了Indemics在一些实施了复杂干预措施的实际案例研究中的应用情况。