Epidemiological Modeling With Structured Cospans

This is a wonderful development! Micah Halter and Evan Patterson have taken my work on structured cospans with Kenny Courser and open Petri nets with Jade Master, turned it into a practical software tool, and used that to build a tool for ‘compositional’ modeling of the spread of infectious disease. By ‘compositional’, I mean that they make it easy to build more complex models by sticking together smaller, simpler models. Furthermore, they’ve illustrated this tool by rebuilding part of the mo...