Simulating the Impacts of Information Diffusion on Meningitis Outbreak in West-Africa Using Agent-Based Model

This paper describes a model for the simulation of the information diffusion impacts on the spread of meningitis in West-Africa. The approach is based on agent-based modeling to represent explicitly (1) the relationships and interactions among individuals through their social networks and (2) the spread of the disease at individual and system level. The model is applied to explore the impacts of the structure of social networks and the trust distribution on the information diffusion and the spread of the meningitis disease.