"X-Machine Modelling Of Disease Spread In a Population"

Supervised by Professor WM Holcombe

Abstract

Agent-based modelling is a very powerful tool - it is being employed by NASA intheir satellite program in space exploration. The aim of this project is to apply agentbased modelling to the problem of disease-spread, thus creating a computer system to enable biologists to investigate the factors that affect disease spread in greater detail and with greater ease than current mathematical methods of investigation. The project will concentrate on the use of a framework for agent-based modelling, created at the University of Sheffield and will centre on the spread of disease between honeybees.