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ArticlePhilosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2022

An algebraic framework for structured epidemic modelling.

Sophie Libkind, Andrew Baas, Micah Halter, Evan Patterson, James P Fairbanks

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Article in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. An algebraic framework for structured epidemic modelling.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2022
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  5. Technical challenges of modelling real-life epidemics and examples of overcoming these.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2022
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  6. Visualization for epidemiological modelling: challenges, solutions, reflections and recommendations.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2022
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  7. Operads for complex system design specification, analysis and synthesis.Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2021
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5 authors.

Sophie LibkindDepartment of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Andrew BaasGeorgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Micah HalterGeorgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Evan PattersonTopos Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8600-949X
James P FairbanksComputer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1778-3350

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pandemic management requires that scientists rapidly formulate and analyse epidemiological models in order to forecast the spread of disease and the effects of mitigation strategies. Scientists must modify existing models and create novel ones in light of new biological data and policy changes such as social distancing and vaccination. Traditional scientific modelling workflows detach the structure of a model-its submodels and their interactions-from its implementation in software. Consequently, incorporating local changes to model components may require global edits to the code base through a manual, time-intensive and error-prone process. We propose a compositional modelling framework that uses high-level algebraic structures to capture domain-specific scientific knowledge and bridge the gap between how scientists think about models and the code that implements them. These algebraic structures, grounded in applied category theory, simplify and expedite modelling tasks such as model specification, stratification, analysis and calibration. With their structure made explicit, models also become easier to communicate, criticize and refine in light of stakeholder feedback. This article is part of the theme issue 'Technical challenges of modelling real-life epidemics and examples of overcoming these'.

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PandemicsSoftwareapplied category theorycomputational epidemiologymodelling and simulationoperadsPetri netsstratification

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PMID35965465
PMCPMC9376710

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