%0 Journal Article
%A Fernández, M. R.
%A Ivorra, Benjamín
%A Redondo, J. L.
%A Ramos, A. M.
%A Ortigosa, P. M.
%T Predicting the spread of epidemiological diseases by using a multi-objective algorithm
%D 2019
%@ 0094-243X
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13159
%X The epidemiological models are able to predict the spread of diseases, but a previous work on calibrating some involved  parameters must be done. In this work, we propose a methodology to adjust those parameters based on solving a multi-objective optimization problem whose objective functions measure the accuracy of the model. More precisely, we have considered the Between-Countries Disease Spread model because it involves a set of countries taking into account the migratory movements among them. As a result, using some real data about the number of detected cases and the number of deaths for the Ebola virusdisease, we have shown that the methodology is able to find a set of values for the parameters so that the model fits the outbreak spread for a set of countries.
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