Contagious Agents: Epidemics, Networks, Computer Simulations
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Contagious Agents : Epidemics, Networks, Computer Simulations. / Vehlken, Sebastian.
Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: On Mimesis and Society. ed. / Christian Borch. 1. ed. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Contagious Agents
T2 - Epidemics, Networks, Computer Simulations
AU - Vehlken, Sebastian
PY - 2019/1/16
Y1 - 2019/1/16
N2 - This chapter discusses in more detail the concepts of contagion and contagious agents in network and computer simulation studies against the backdrop of epidemic response systems. It examines that the understanding of contagion as a cross-section of biology and computer technology – especially in Agent-based models (ABMs) – entails at least two major consequences. Contrariwise, and building on a research tradition of functionalist approaches to animal collectives, recent ABM in biological research has shown that information is distributed through the constantly changing and moving collective by a large number of parallel, individually distributed, and local actions and reactions. Cellular-automata (CA) models for disease spread improve upon these models and allow for spatial dimensions and discontinuities. However, the geometry of CA highly oversimplifies the spatial reality of the real world and thus of disease propagation processes. The application of ABM thus transforms the modes of describing and of acknowledging dynamic systems
AB - This chapter discusses in more detail the concepts of contagion and contagious agents in network and computer simulation studies against the backdrop of epidemic response systems. It examines that the understanding of contagion as a cross-section of biology and computer technology – especially in Agent-based models (ABMs) – entails at least two major consequences. Contrariwise, and building on a research tradition of functionalist approaches to animal collectives, recent ABM in biological research has shown that information is distributed through the constantly changing and moving collective by a large number of parallel, individually distributed, and local actions and reactions. Cellular-automata (CA) models for disease spread improve upon these models and allow for spatial dimensions and discontinuities. However, the geometry of CA highly oversimplifies the spatial reality of the real world and thus of disease propagation processes. The application of ABM thus transforms the modes of describing and of acknowledging dynamic systems
KW - Media and communication studies
UR - https://www.crcpress.com/Imitation-Contagion-Suggestion-On-Mimesis-and-Society/Borch/p/book/9781138490642
U2 - 10.4324/9781351034944-9
DO - 10.4324/9781351034944-9
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 9781138490642
BT - Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion
A2 - Borch, Christian
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
ER -