Calibrating a large network model describing the transmission dynamics of the human papillomavirus using a particle swarm optimization algorithm in a distributed computing environment

Abstract

Working in large networks applied to epidemiological-type models has led us to design a simple but effective computed distributed environment to perform a large amount of model simulations in a reasonable time in order to study the behavior of these models and to calibrate them. Finding the model parameters that best fit the available data in the designed distributed computing environment becomes a challenge and it is necessary to implement reliable algorithms for model calibration. In this article, we have adapted the random particle swarm optimization algorithm to our distributed computing environment to be applied to the calibration of a papillomavirus transmission dynamics model on a lifetime sexual partners network. And we have obtained a good fitting saving time and calculations compared with the exhaustive searching strategy we have been using so far.

Keywords

Network models distributed computing paradigm model calibration particle swarm optimization human papillomavirus

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