Tag: ABM

Article on COVID-19 spread in Brazilian favelas

A new article was published on how the new coronavirus spreads in a socioeconomic inequality context in Brazil. The work was a partnership between LNCC, UFLA, UnB and researchers from the Brazilian Army. An Agent-based Model was created and census data was used to insert real information about the population and its relevant characteristics for […]

Model created by Eric Araújo on Brazilian Huffpost

The situation in Brazil regarding the control of the pandemic of COVID-19 has been brought to another level when the Ministry of Health decided to change the methodology of the statistics shown in the main website of the government. The changes on the interface of the website and the methodology to count only deaths that […]

An agent-based model for the integration of refugees

The work entitled A Social Network Model for Integration of Refugees was accepted for the Simultech 2019, held in Prague, Czech Republic. The work presents a model based on homophily and social network dynamics to explain how is the integration of refugees in a new society based on personal traits like educational level and religiousness. […]