About the Authors

Janik Suer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

janik.suer@uni-muenster.de (JS), jaegerv@uni-muenster.de (VJK)

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics (IMMIDD), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Johannes Ponge

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics (IMMIDD), University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Michael Brüggemann

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Jan Pablo Burgard

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Economic and Social Statistics, Trier University, Trier, Germany

Vitaly Belik

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation System Modelling Group, Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Bernd Hellingrath

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics (IMMIDD), University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Department of Information Systems, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Alejandra Rincón Hidalgo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Machine Learning Unit, Department of Engineering, NET CHECK GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Andrzej K. Jarynowski

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation System Modelling Group, Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Richard Pastor

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Machine Learning Unit, Department of Engineering, NET CHECK GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Huynh Thi Phuong

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Steven Schulz

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Machine Learning Unit, Department of Engineering, NET CHECK GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Ashish Thampi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Machine Learning Unit, Department of Engineering, NET CHECK GmbH, Berlin, Germany

Chao Xu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, Middle German Center for Biomedical Modelling and Simulation in Life Sciences (CeMMSiS), Halle, Germany

Marlli Zambrano

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation System Modelling Group, Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Rafael Mikolajczyk

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics, and Informatics (IMEBI), Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Medical Faculty of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany, Middle German Center for Biomedical Modelling and Simulation in Life Sciences (CeMMSiS), Halle, Germany

André Karch

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics (IMMIDD), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Veronika K. Jaeger

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

janik.suer@uni-muenster.de (JS), jaegerv@uni-muenster.de (VJK)

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany, Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics (IMMIDD), University of Münster, Münster, Germany

on behalf of the OptimAgent Consortium

Membership of the OptimAgent Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgements.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.