Indemics

Abstract

To respond to the serious threat of pandemics (e.g. 2009 H1N1 influenza) to human society, we developed Indemics (<u>In</u>teractive Epi<u>demic</u> <u>S</u>imulation), an interactive, data intensive, high performance modeling environment for realtime pandemic planning, situation assessment, and course of action analysis. Indemics was built upon a model of interactive data intensive scientific computation, supporting online interactions between users and simulations and enabling epidemic simulations over detailed social contact networks and realistic representations of complex public policies and intervention strategies.