An Agent-Based Spatially Explicit Epidemiological Model in MASON

This paper outlines the design & implementation of an agent-based epidemiological simulation system. The system was implemented in the MASON toolkit, a set of Java-based agent-simulation libraries. This epidemiological simulation system is robust & extensible for multiple applications, including classroom demonstrations of many types of epidemics & detailed numerical experimentation on a particular disease. The application has been made available as an applet on the MASON web site, & as source code on the author's web site. Tables, Figures, References. Adapted from the source document.