Another way game theory continues to develop our modeling abilities and improve opportunities for success in preventing pandemics. First, economics and now medicine...thanks to the game theorists.
revealed in next month’s issue of The Lancet Infectious
Diseases journal
Researchers have now made an unlikely breakthrough, thanks to a glitch in a
fantasy computer game
World of Warcraft, an
unexpected error provided a ready-made laboratory for
studying the effects of an epidemic. using these games as an untapped experimental framework, we may be able to
gain deeper insight into the incredible complexity of infectious disease
epidemiology in social groups,” wrote the authors, Eric Lofgren, of Rutgers
University, New Jersey, and Nina Fefferman, of Tufts University, Boston. |
clipped from technology.timesonline.co.uk
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