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Mathematical models of epidemic dynamics offer significant insight into predicting and controlling infectious diseases. The dynamics of a disease model generally follow a susceptible, infected, and recovered (SIR) model, with some standard…

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Likelihood-based inference in stochastic non-linear dynamical systems, such as those found in chemical reaction networks and biological clock systems, is inherently complex and has largely been limited to small and unrealistically simple…

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The existing literature on stochastic simulation of chemical reaction networks has a tendency to move as quickly as possible to the abstract formulation of the stochastic dynamics in terms of probabilities based on the concept of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Sergey Plyasunov

The M{\O}D computational framework implements rule-based generative chemistries as explicit transformations of graphs representing chemical structural formulae. Here, we expand M{\O}D by a stochastic simulation module that simulates the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-30 Erika M. Herrera Machado , Jakob L. Andersen , Rolf Fagerberg , Christoph Flamm , Daniel Merkle , Peter F. Stadler

Modern Bayesian approaches and workflows emphasize in how simulation is important in the context of model developing. Simulation can help researchers understand how the model behaves in a controlled setting and can be used to stress the…

Biological systems with intertwined feedback loops pose a challenge to mathematical modeling efforts. Moreover, rare events, such as mutation and extinction, complicate system dynamics. Stochastic simulation algorithms are useful in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-12-10 Alfonso Landeros , Timothy Stutz , Kevin L. Keys , Alexander Alekseyenko , Janet S. Sinsheimer , Kenneth Lange , Mary Sehl

The analysis of data from multiple experiments, such as observations of several individuals, is commonly approached using mixed-effects models, which account for variation between individuals through hierarchical representations. This makes…

Computation · Statistics 2026-03-05 Henrik Häggström , Sebastian Persson , Marija Cvijovic , Umberto Picchini

gemlib is a Python library for defining, simulating, and calibrating Markov state-transition models. Stochastic models are often computationally intensive, making them impractical to use in pandemic response efforts despite their favourable…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-12 Alin Morariu , Jess Bridgen , Chris Jewell

The epidemic spreading on arbitrary complex networks is studied in SIR (Susceptible Infected Recovered) compartment model. We propose our implementation of a Naive SIR algorithm for epidemic simulation spreading on networks that uses data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Nino Antulov-Fantulin , Alen Lancic , Hrvoje Stefancic , Mile Sikic

We present an improvement of the Gillespie Exact Stochastic Simulation Algorithm, which leverages a bitwise representation of variables to perform independent simulations in parallel. We show that the subsequent gain in computational yield…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-24 David Lacoste , Michele Castellana

We take up the challenge of designing realistic computational models of large interacting cell populations. The goal is essentially to bring Gillespie's celebrated stochastic methodology to the level of an interacting population of cells.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Stefan Engblom

The Markovian approach, which assumes exponentially distributed interinfection times, is dominant in epidemic modeling. However, this assumption is unrealistic as an individual's infectiousness depends on its viral load and varies over…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-02 Qihui Yang , Joan Saldaña , Caterina Scoglio

Bayesian nonparametric inferential procedures based on Markov chain Monte Carlo marginal methods typically yield point estimates in the form of posterior expectations. Though very useful and easy to implement in a variety of statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Julyan Arbel , Antonio Lijoi , Bernardo Nipoti

Efficient stochastic simulation algorithms are of paramount importance to the study of spreading phenomena on complex networks. Using insights and analytical results from network science, we discuss how the structure of contacts affects the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-24 Guillaume St-Onge , Jean-Gabriel Young , Laurent Hébert-Dufresne , Louis J. Dubé

We present the R package SimInf which provides an efficient and very flexible framework to conduct data-driven epidemiological modeling in realistic large scale disease spread simulations. The framework integrates infection dynamics in…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-10 Stefan Widgren , Pavol Bauer , Robin Eriksson , Stefan Engblom

We consider the problem of efficiently performing simulation and inference for stochastic kinetic models. Whilst it is possible to work directly with the resulting Markov jump process, computational cost can be prohibitive for networks of…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-18 Chris Sherlock , Andrew Golightly , Colin Gillespie

We present a study of the spatial correlation functions of a one-dimensional reaction-diffusion system in both equilibrium and out of equilibrium. For the numerical simulations we have employed the Gillespie algorithm dividing the system in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-08 Jorge Luis Hita , José María Ortiz de Zárate

We present an efficient quantum algorithm for simulating the dynamics of Markovian open quantum systems. The performance of our algorithm is similar to the previous state-of-the-art quantum algorithm, i.e., it scales linearly in evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

Stochastic kinetic models (SKMs) are increasingly used to account for the inherent stochasticity exhibited by interacting populations of species in areas such as epidemiology, population ecology and systems biology. Species numbers are…

Computation · Statistics 2023-04-06 Tom E. Lowe , Andrew Golightly , Chris Sherlock

We propose to use quantum computers to simulate infection spreading in networks. We first show the analogy between the infection distribution and spin-lattice configurations with Ising-type interactions. Then, since the spreading process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Xiaoyang Wang , Yinchenguang Lyu , Changyu Yao , Xiao Yuan