Computational models are increasingly being used to assist in develo**, implementing
and evaluating public policy. This paper reports on the experience of the authors in …

As we face complex and dynamically changing public health and environmental challenges,
simulation modelling has come to occupy an increasingly central role in public …

Managing non-communicable diseases requires policy makers to adopt a whole systems
perspective that adequately represents the complex causal architecture of human …

The Covid-19 pandemic will be a ubiquitous investigatory topic attracting much scholarly
attention across most academic fields. Yet there remains a dearth of research on the impact …

Steven Chaffee stated that 'the most likely “effect” of communication… is further
communication'(p. 72). The present study asks to what extent this offering, referred to as 'The …

This paper presents JuSt-Social, an agent-based model of the COVID-19 epidemic with a
range of potential social policy interventions. It was developed to support local authorities in …

Objective: To identify processes to engage stakeholders in healthcare Simulation Modeling
(SM), and the impacts of this engagement on model design, model implementation, and …

The COVID-19 epidemic highlighted the necessity to integrate dynamic human behaviour
change into infectious disease transmission models. The adoption of health protective …

From the perspective of urban administration, simulation can be used as an evaluation tool.
Specifically, it can provide an intuition to the current urban situation and quantitatively verify …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the behavioral response to reported case numbers
changed drastically over time. While a few dozen cases were enough to trigger government …