Simulation of Common Cold and Influenza Infection Among Hight-Grade Elementary School Children by Cellular Automata

• Main Authors: HSIEH,TING-CHUAN, 謝定全
• Other Authors: Lo,Shih-Ching
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57876356850113116054

碩士 === 中華大學 === 運輸科技與物流管理學系 === 104 === The purpose of this study is simulating the infection and prevention of common cold and flu among the high grade elementary students. The simulation is based on student's behavior and their daily schedule. Basically, there are 30 students and 1 teacher in one class. Cellular automata, which is implemented in the Netlogo platform is employed to simulate the infection under different conditions. According to the results, vaceine injection, mask wearing and washing hands can reduce the infections situation of common cold and flu effectively. However, the prevention methods can hardly reduce the average illness duration of common cold. On the other hand, the prevention methods can reduce the average duration of flu obviously. The performance of multiple prevention methods to deal with common cold and flu is better than that of single prevention method. In addition, if students attend after school class, the performance of flu prevention will be reduced. Therefore, students who are infected by common cold or flu have better stay home and take a rest after school.