Modelling and Simulation of Disease Spread Dynamics Using Interacting Automata

将开发建模和模拟技术，以加强我们对疾病在整个景观中传播的了解，以便及时制定控制策略。引进的病虫害、动植物疾病给澳大利亚带来的经济代价是相当大的。我们利用交互自动机形式论来捕捉影响疾病传播的景观、人口和传染病信息，以提供比目前所做的更准确的模拟。将构建通用的模拟工具，能够由流行病学家针对特定疾病快速个性化。

Modelling and simulation techniques will be developed to strengthen our understanding of disease spread over the landscape, so allowing timely control strategies to be developed. The economic cost to Australia of introduced pests, animal and plant diseases is considerable. We utilise an interacting automata formalism to capture landscape, population and contagion information as it affects disease spread to provide more accurate simulation than is done at present. Generic simulation tools will be constructed, capable of being rapidly personalised by epidemiologists for specific diseases.