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Agent-based computational models can capture irrational behaviour, complex social networks and global scale — all essential in confronting H1N1, says Joshua M. Epstein.

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1. Joshua M. Epstein is director of the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics at the Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC 20036, USA. jepstein@brookings.edu ,
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Epstein, J. Modelling to contain pandemics.Nature 460, 687 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460687a

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