Large-Scale Agent Model

CSED's Large-Scale Agent Model (LSAM) is capable of simulating several billion agents and represents a major advance in applied public policy research.

The current Unites States LSAM implementation shown here allows for the design and testing of optimal policies in the event of an infectious disease outbreak in this country to include Pandemic Influenza.

This version of the LSAM incorporates US census data, long and short distance travel estimates, hospital capabilities, as well as people's day to day activities.

The movie shown here depicts the spread of a flu-like illness across the Unites States. Pixels are gradually colored red as more agents become infected. Pixels gradually become blue as agents recover from infection. These two trends produce pinkish pixels where many agents have already recovered from infection yet much of the local population is currently sick.

For this cutting-edge work, CSED won the 2008 Modeling and Simulation Award for Oustanding Achievement in Analysis from the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA).