Guidance on the use of complex systems models for economic evaluations of public health interventions

PR Breeze, H Squires, K Ennis, P Meier… - Health …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To help health economic modelers respond to demands for greater use of complex systems
models in public health. To propose identifiable features of such models and support …

A tale of three recent pandemics: influenza, HIV and SARS-CoV-2

MNS Miranda, M **arilho, V Pimentel… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Emerging infectious diseases are one of the main threats to public health, with the potential
to cause a pandemic when the infectious agent manages to spread globally. The first major …

[HTML][HTML] Agent-based modeling of COVID-19 outbreaks for New York state and UK: Parameter identification algorithm

O Krivorotko, M Sosnovskaia, I Vashchenko… - Infectious Disease …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper uses Covasim, an agent-based model (ABM) of COVID-19, to evaluate and
scenarios of epidemic spread in New York State (USA) and the UK. Epidemiological …

Calibration and validation of the colorectal cancer and adenoma incidence and mortality (CRC-AIM) microsimulation model using deep neural networks

V Vahdat, O Alagoz, JV Chen, L Saoud… - Medical Decision …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives Machine learning (ML)–based emulators improve the calibration of decision-
analytical models, but their performance in complex microsimulation models is yet to be …

Emulator-based Bayesian optimization for efficient multi-objective calibration of an individual-based model of malaria

T Reiker, M Golumbeanu, A Shattock, L Burgert… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Individual-based models have become important tools in the global battle against infectious
diseases, yet model complexity can make calibration to biological and epidemiological data …

Einns: epidemiologically-informed neural networks

A Rodríguez, J Cui, N Ramakrishnan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
We introduce EINNs, a framework crafted for epidemic forecasting that builds upon the
theoretical grounds provided by mechanistic models as well as the data-driven expressibility …

[HTML][HTML] A model learning framework for inferring the dynamics of transmission rate depending on exogenous variables for epidemic forecasts

G Ziarelli, S Pagani, N Parolini, F Regazzoni… - Computer Methods in …, 2025 - Elsevier
In this work, we aim to formalize a novel scientific machine learning framework to reconstruct
the hidden dynamics of the transmission rate, whose inaccurate extrapolation can …

Likelihood-based methods improve parameter estimation in opinion dynamics models

J Lenti, C Monti, G De Francisci Morales - Proceedings of the 17th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We show that a maximum likelihood approach for parameter estimation in agent-based
models (ABMs) of opinion dynamics outperforms the typical simulation-based approach …

Agent-based mathematical model of COVID-19 spread in Novosibirsk region: Identifiability, optimization and forecasting

O Krivorotko, M Sosnovskaia… - Journal of Inverse and Ill …, 2023 - degruyter.com
The problem of identification of unknown epidemiological parameters (contagiosity, the
initial number of infected individuals, probability of being tested) of an agent-based model of …

Real-time infectious disease modeling to inform emergency public health decision making

A Bershteyn, HY Kim… - Annual Review of Public …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Infectious disease transmission is a nonlinear process with complex, sometimes unintuitive
dynamics. Modeling can transform information about a disease process and its parameters …