| STEM used to model a zombie outbreak [message #555951] |
Mon, 30 August 2010 07:18  |
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I participated in a 48 hour programming competition this weekend, and chose to create a visualization for a hypothetical zombie pandemic: http://teropa.no.de/. Luckily I discovered STEM and was able to create a convincing model of the "disease" with it.
Now, clearly this is a silly use of the software, but it did spark an interest, especially for the possibilities in integrating STEM with the web. I read that there have been some efforts in this area. Any news on what is the current situation with any web integration projects? I would be happy to chip in.
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| Re: STEM used to model a zombie outbreak [message #556553 is a reply to message #555951] |
Wed, 01 September 2010 13:59  |
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http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf
from: In: Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress ISBN 978-1-60741-347-9 Editors: J.M. Tchuenche and C. Chiyaka, pp. 133-15⃝c0 2009 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
WHEN ZOMBIES ATTACK!: MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF AN OUTBREAK OF ZOMBIE INFECTION
Philip Munz1∗, Ioan Hudea1†, Joe Imad2‡, Robert J. Smith?3§ 1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada 2Department of Mathematics, The University of Ottawa, 585 King Edward Ave, Ottawa ON K1N 6N5, Canada 2Department of Mathematics and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Ottawa, 585 King Edward Ave, Ottawa ON K1N 6N5, Canada
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| Re: STEM used to model a zombie outbreak [message #565216 is a reply to message #556953] |
Sun, 05 September 2010 01:43 |
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I think STEM can contribute significantly to the zombie scenario. Of course, we can draw in more attention and more users, because modelling zombie attacks is fun. But the serious use is that the original paper dealt with "quarantine" in an abstract way. With STEM, we can investigate specific quarantine techniques, particularly denying air travel to zombies, and see how that affects the spread. This is very relevant, given the suggestions for draconian travel restrictions following the SARS outbreak. The distinction between short range movement (within a country) and long range (between countries) is a strength of STEM. It's very hard to do that kind of modelling analytically, so an explicit model like STEM becomes just about the only way to do it.
Arik
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Arik Kershenbaum
Prof Blaustein's laboratory
Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology
University of Haifa
http://research.haifa.ac.il/~leon/html/Arik_Page.htm
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