An agent-based model for the spread of the Dengue fever: a swarm platform simulation approach

The dengue fever is today the most spread arbovirosis in Brazil. Transmitted only by the female Aedes aegypti mosquito, it reaches its peek during the hot and humid Brazilian summer season. While there are many approaches to analyze the spread of the dengue fever, most of them focus on developing a mathematical model to represent that process. One disadvantage of such approach is to neglect the importance of micro-level behavior, focusing instead on the macro-level aspects of the system. This work proposes an agent-based model of the spread of the dengue fever arbovirosis, where agents interact between themselves and the environment representing the process of dissemination of the disease. This model will be implemented and simulated through the Swarm platform and the simulation results will then be analyzed.