Pyfectious: An individual-level simulator to discover optimal containment policies for epidemic diseases
Fig 3
(a) In the first phase, all individuals of the society are created based on the population size and the set of provided family patterns, as explained in Section 1.2.1. (b) The abstract hierarchical structure of the communities and subcommunities of the society is created. Observe that communities may be intersecting as an individual may be a member of various communities such as family, school, restaurant, etc. Within a community, there are two types of interactions shown as red arrows. One type of interaction is inter-subcommunity, such as the interactions among teachers and students in a school. Note that, inter-subcommunity edges are indeed directional and here for ease of depiction are shown in this way. (c) Another type of interaction, shown with red arrows, is within a subcommunity. For example, the way students interact with each other in a school.