A Novel Agent-based Model for COVID-19 Disease Spread
Defence Technology Agency (DTA) has developed a novel agent-based model (ABM) for investigating the spread of the pre-Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus through a population of several tens of thousands of people. People are represented in the model by abstracted entities, the so-called agents, who reside at home locations defined on a grid topology. The mechanism for virus spread is via healthy or infected agents visiting various venues on a daily basis where other infected agents may or may not be present.
