Software for modeling of epidemic diseases

Abstract

Mathematical biology is a rather new science which is currently used in different areas of biochemical and medical engineering such as population models, control of epidermal diseases, growth and control of tumors and so on. One of the most important areas of mathematical biology is modeling of spread and control of epidemic diseases. Simple epidemic models try to describe epidemic models between populations. Educational software is developed which may help the teacher in the classroom for problem solving and description of different concepts and properties of these models. Concepts such as influence of initial number of infectives and susceptibles, situations which lead to spread of epidemic diseases and maximum number of infectives may be learned and discussed by this software. Using of such computer programs provides a framework for education of main concepts without cumbersome and time consuming tasks of mathematical operations and saves the time of the classroom for better discussions and conclusions.