COMPARING LARGE-SCALE COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO EPIDEMIC MODELING: AGENT-BASED VERSUS STRUCTURED METAPOPULATION MODELS

Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: Agent-based versus structured metapopulation models

Abstract Background In recent years large-scale computational models for the realistic simulation of epidemic outbreaks have been used with increased frequency.Methodologies adapt to the scale of interest and range from very detailed agent-based models to spatially-structured metapopulation models.One major issue thus concerns to what extent the ge

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Referring to Nothing

Typical accounts of reference demand that referring terms denote existent objects.This assumption is shared by theories across a variety of areas of philosophy, in particular, direct reference views in philosophy of language; neo-Fregean conceptions in the philosophy of mathematics, and easy-ontology approaches in metaphysics.In this paper, this ki

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Understanding the Duplex and Its Security

At SAC 2011, Bertoni et al.introduced the keyed duplex construction as replica beach walk candle a tool to build permutation based authenticated encryption schemes.The construction was generalized to full-state absorption by Mennink et al.(ASIACRYPT 2015).Daemen et al.(ASIACRYPT 2017) generalized it further to cover much more use cases, and proved

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