Epidemic Simulator Author: Allison Ryan Version: 12/4/2020 version with a new simulation framework Shell command to build the simulator: javac @EpidemicSource Shell command to build Javadoc web site: javadoc @EpidemicSource Shell command to test the simulator: java Epidemic testepi This test runs the simulator for one simulated month, using a community of 1000 people, 10 of which are initially infected with a COVID-like disease. By the end of the month, on the order of 10 people will die and from 500 to 900 people will remain uninfected. The rate of disease spread through the community depends on a randomly constructed social network of family and job relationships, with a 50% employment rate where both homes and workplaces have random variations in their transmissivity. No two runs are likely to produce the same results. The community is described in the file testepi, but currently, the disease characteristics are described by constants hard-coded into the simulator. This could be improved in other versions. The logic of workplaces in the model could be replicated to support schools with students and stores with customers. The effect of mitigation strategies such as closing workplaces with more than some number of employees when the number of beridden people exceeds some threshold could be modeled by making people stay home from such places when these criteria are met.