1. Correction to: Analysing the Combined Health, Social and Economic Impacts of the Corona Virus Pandemic Using Agent‑Based Social Simulation
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Loïs Vanhée, Amineh Ghorbani, Mijke van der Hurk, René Mellema, Alexander Melchior, Paul Davidsson, Frank Dignum, Christian Kammler, Maarten Jensen, Luis Gustavo Ludescher, Cezara Pastrav, Fabian Lorig, Virginia Dignum, and Harko Verhagen
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Philosophy of mind ,Philosophy ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,Philosophy of science ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Artificial Intelligence ,Management science ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Pandemic ,Correction ,Economic impact analysis ,Sociology ,Agent-based social simulation - Abstract
During the COVID-19 crisis there have been many difficult decisions governments and other decision makers had to make. E.g. do we go for a total lock down or keep schools open? How many people and which people should be tested? Although there are many good models from e.g. epidemiologists on the spread of the virus under certain conditions, these models do not directly translate into the interventions that can be taken by government. Neither can these models contribute to understand the economic and/or social consequences of the interventions. However, effective and sustainable solutions need to take into account this combination of factors. In this paper, we propose an agent-based social simulation tool, ASSOCC, that supports decision makers understand possible consequences of policy interventions, but exploring the combined social, health and economic consequences of these interventions.
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- 2021