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DSS
2006
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13 years 4 months ago
Model alignment of anthrax attack simulations
This paper describes our experience aligning two simulation models of disease progression after biological attacks. The first model is the Incubation-Prodromal-Fulminant (IPF) mod...
Li-Chiou Chen, Kathleen M. Carley, Douglas B. Frid...
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling bioterrorism preparedness with simulation in rural healthcare system
As a result of the anthrax letter incidents in 2001, concerns about terrorists’ use of biological agents have increased dramatically at government state and federal levels. The ...
Lisa Patvivatsiri, Elliot J. Montes Jr., Ouyang Xi
WSC
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Hospital capacity planning for efficient disaster mitigation during a bioterrorist attack
Effective hospital capacity planning can not only significantly enhance the capability and effectiveness of the treatment provided to patients during a bioterrorist attack but can...
Jomon Aliyas Paul, Govind Hariharan
BIOSURVEILLANCE
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Temporal Extension of the Bayesian Aerosol Release Detector
Early detection of bio-terrorist attacks is an important problem in public health surveillance. In this paper, we focus on the detection and characterization of outdoor aerosol rel...
Xiaohui Kong, Garrick L. Wallstrom, William R. Hog...
ISI
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Aligning Simulation Models of Smallpox Outbreaks
We aligned two fundamentally different models of smallpox transmission after a bioterrorist attack: A location-explicit multi-agent model (BioWar) and the conventional epidemiologi...
Li-Chiou Chen, Boris Kaminsky, Tiffany Tummino, Ka...