Cellular automata modelling of SEIRS

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, , Citation Liu Quan-Xing and Jin Zhen 2005 Chinese Phys. 14 1370 DOI 10.1088/1009-1963/14/7/018

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Abstract

In this paper the SEIRS epidemic spread is analysed and a two-dimensional probability cellular automata model for SEIRS is presented. Each cellular automation cell represents a part of the population that may be found in one of five states of individuals: susceptible, exposed (or latency), infected, immunized (or recovered) and death. Here studied are the effects of two cases on the epidemic spread. i.e. the effects of non-segregation and segregation on the latency and the infected of population. The conclusion is reached that the epidemic will persist in the case of non-segregation but it will decrease in the case of segregation. The proposed model can serve as a basis for the development of algorithms to simulate real epidemics based on real data. Last we find the density series of the exposed and the infected will fluctuate near a positive equilibrium point, when the constant for the immunized is less than its corresponding constant τ0. Our theoretical results are verified by numerical simulations.

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10.1088/1009-1963/14/7/018