Generating a Simulation-Based Contacts Matrix for Disease Transmission Modeling at Special Settings
Channel: Mahdi MN
Date: 26/07/2021

This video is created as part of the Advanced Disaster, Emergency and Rapid Response Simulation (ADERSIM) projects at York University. The ultimate goal here is to simulate human agents' interactions and extract their risky contacts, in order to come up with a normalized contact frequency matrix per pairs of agent types, to use in a long-run simulation to assess the effectiveness of different intervention policies. For example, to find out that how long it would take to see a breakout in an environment, under different implemented health and hygiene protocols.

Relevant papers and preprints:

1) Generating Simulation-Based Contacts Matrices for Disease Transmission Modelling at Special Settings: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10224

2) Modelling COVID - 19 Transmission in a Hemodialysis Centre Using Simulation Generated Contacts Matrices: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.03.21249175v1

3) Estimating Social Contacts in Mass Gatherings Through Agent-Based Simulation Modeling: Case of Hajj Pilgrimage: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-595525/v2

For more information, please contact ADERSIM, York University: https://adersim.info.yorku.ca