Accelerating Spatially Explicit Simulations of Spread of Lyme Disease

  • Authors:
  • Dhananjai M. Rao;Philip A. Wilsey

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cincinnati;University of Cincinnati

  • Venue:
  • ANSS '05 Proceedings of the 38th annual Symposium on Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The factors influencing spread of Lyme disease are often studied using computer-based simulations and spatially explicit models. However, simulating large and complex models is a time consuming task, even when parallel simulation techniques are employed. In an endeavor to accelerate such simulations, an alternative approach involving dynamic (i.e., during simulation) changes to spatial resolution of the model via a novel methodology called Dynamic Component Substitution (DCS) is proposed. Changes to the resolution are performed such that the total number of interactions between the entities in the model is optimized, thereby improving overall performance but introducing minor (