title: Ophiucus: RDF-based visualization tool for health simulation models.
abstract: Simulation modeling of population health is becoming increasingly popular for epidemiology research and public health policy-making. However, the acceptability of population health simulation models is inhibited by their complexity and the lack of established standards to describe these models. To address this issue, we propose Ophiuchus - an RDF (Resource Description Framework: http://www.w3.org/RDF/)-based visualization tool for generating interactive 2D diagrams of population health simulation models, which describe these models in an explicit and formal manner. We present the results of a preliminary system assessment and discuss current limitations of the system.
authors.affiliation: School of Computer science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. andrew.sutcliffe@mail.mcgill.ca
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sutcliffe
authors.forename: Anya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Okhmatovskaia
authors.forename: Arash
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shaban-Nejad
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Buckeridge
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface