Dr Jennifer Badham jennifer.badham@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
Justified Stories with Agent-Based Modelling for Local COVID-19 Planning
Badham, Jennifer; Barbrook-Johnson, Pete; Caiado, Camila; Castellani, Brian
Authors
Pete Barbrook-Johnson
Professor Camila Caiado c.c.d.s.caiado@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Professor Brian Castellani brian.c.castellani@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Abstract
This paper presents JuSt-Social, an agent-based model of the COVID-19 epidemic with a range of potential social policy interventions. It was developed to support local authorities in North East England who are making decisions in a fast moving crisis with limited access to data. The proximate purpose of JuSt-Social is description, as the model represents knowledge about both COVID-19 transmission and intervention effects. Its ultimate purpose is to generate stories that respond to the questions and concerns of local planners and policy makers and are justified by the quality of the representation. These justified stories organise the knowledge in way that is accessible, timely and useful at the local level, assisting the decision makers to better understand both their current situation and the plausible outcomes of policy alternatives. JuSt-Social and the concept of justified stories apply to the modelling of infectious disease in general and, even more broadly, modelling in public health, particularly for policy interventions in complex systems.
Citation
Badham, J., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Caiado, C., & Castellani, B. (2021). Justified Stories with Agent-Based Modelling for Local COVID-19 Planning. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 24(1), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4532
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 22, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Jan 31, 2021 |
Publication Date | Jan 31, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Mar 7, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 29, 2021 |
Journal | Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation |
Print ISSN | 1460-7425 |
Publisher | SimSoc Consortium |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 1 |
Article Number | 8 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.18564/jasss.4532 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1245798 |
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