Past, present, and future of decision support technology
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Decision support systems: Directions for the next decade
Agent-Based Modeling vs. Equation-Based Modeling: A Case Study and Users' Guide
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation
Cognitive Support for Real-Time Dynamic Decision Making
Information Systems Research
Analyzing Bioterror Response Logistics: The Case of Anthrax
Management Science
Optimal Policies for Transshipping Inventory in a Retail Network
Management Science
EpiSimS simulation of a multi-component strategy for pandemic influenza
Proceedings of the 2008 Spring simulation multiconference
Resource allocation for demand surge mitigation during disaster response
Decision Support Systems
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
BioWar: scalable agent-based model of bioattacks
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
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This research addresses complexities inherent in dynamic decision making settings represented by global disasters such as influenza pandemics. By coupling a theoretically grounded Equation-Based Modeling (EBM) approach with more practically nuanced Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) approach we address the inherent heterogeneity of the “influenza pandemic” decision space more effectively. In addition to modeling contributions, results and findings of this study have three important policy implications for pandemic containment; first, an effective way of checking the progression of a pandemic is a multipronged approach that includes a combination of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions. Second, mutual aid is effective only when regions that have been affected by the pandemic are sufficiently isolated from other regions through non-pharmaceutical interventions. When regions are not sufficiently isolated, mutual aid can in fact be detrimental. Finally, intraregion non-pharmaceutical interventions such as school closures are more effective than interregion nonpharmaceutical interventions such as border closures.