Vers une approche individu-centrée pour modéliser et simuler l’expression spatiale d’une maladie transmissible : la peste à Madagascar

Abstract

Since the introduction of plague in Madagascar by European settlers, research on the Madagascar epidemiologic cycle has been focusing upon the comprehension of the transmission process between the main host, rats, and the secondary one, humans, via a vector, fleas. This process is now well known, thanks to the experimental method. Nowadays, research integrates a new approach, derived from artificial intelligence techniques and founded upon sciences of complexity, to analyse emergence, re-emergence, conservation and diffusion of plague in its environment, in order to improve its control. The aim of our paper is to present this new approach of plague, replaced in its historical context, and based on multi-agent modelling.

Keywords

• complex system
• multi-agent system
• plague
• pathogen