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Mathematical modeling of spatio-temporal population dynamics and application to epidemic spreading

  • Agent based models (ABMs) are a useful tool for modeling spatio-temporal population dynamics, where many details can be included in the model description. Their computational cost though is very high and for stochastic ABMs a lot of individual simulations are required to sample quantities of interest. Especially, large numbers of agents render the sampling infeasible. Model reduction to a metapopulation model leads to a significant gain in computational efficiency, while preserving important dynamical properties. Based on a precise mathematical description of spatio-temporal ABMs, we present two different metapopulation approaches (stochastic and piecewise deterministic) and discuss the approximation steps between the different models within this framework. Especially, we show how the stochastic metapopulation model results from a Galerkin projection of the underlying ABM onto a finite-dimensional ansatz space. Finally, we utilize our modeling framework to provide a conceptual model for the spreading of COVID-19 that can be scaled to real-world scenarios.
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Author:Stefanie WinkelmannORCiD, Johannes Zonker, Christof Schütte, Natasa Djurdjevac ConradORCiD
Document Type:Article
Parent Title (English):Mathematical Biosciences
Volume:336
Publisher:Elsevier
Year of first publication:2021
ArXiv Id:http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.05000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2021.108619
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