Simulation controller subsystem

The simulation controller is the top-level structure for the epidemiological model. The controller’s capabilities are simple, running a single simulation in a single time direction at a constant rate. It exists to support future capabilities, such as running multiple simulations, pausing a simulation, or bootstrapping a simulation from an archived simulation. It contains two components: simulation and reporters.

The following figure shows a high-level view of the system components of EMOD and how they are related to each other.

EMOD system components

Simulation

The simulation component contains core functionality that models the behavior of a disease without any interventions and extended functionality to include migration, climate, or other input data to create a more realistic simulation. Disease transmission may be more or less complex depending on the disease being modeled.

Campaign management

The simulation component also includes a campaign manager sub-component for including disease interventions in a simulation.

Reporter

The reporter component creates output reports for both simulation-wide aggregate reporting and spatial reporting.