title: DengueME: A Tool for the Modeling and Simulation of Dengue Spatiotemporal Dynamics.
abstract: The prevention and control of dengue are great public health challenges for many countries, particularly since 2015, as other arboviruses have been observed to interact significantly with dengue virus. Different approaches and methodologies have been proposed and discussed by the research community. An important tool widely used is modeling and simulation, which help us to understand epidemic dynamics and create scenarios to support planning and decision making processes. With this aim, we proposed and developed DengueME, a collaborative open source platform to simulate dengue disease and its vector's dynamics. It supports compartmental and individual-based models, implemented over a GIS database, that represent Aedes aegypti population dynamics, human demography, human mobility, urban landscape and dengue transmission mediated by human and mosquito encounters. A user-friendly graphical interface was developed to facilitate model configuration and data input, and a library of models was developed to support teaching-learning activities. DengueME was applied in study cases and evaluated by specialists. Other improvements will be made in future work, to enhance its extensibility and usability.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Computação e Sistemas (DECSI), Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Aplicadas (ICEA), Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) - Campus João Monlevade, João Monlevade, MG 35931-008, Brasil. tiagolima@decsi.ufop.br.
authors.forename: Tiago França Melo
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: de Lima
authors.affiliation: Programa Pós-Graduação em Epidemiologia em Saúde Pública, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca (ENSP), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21045-900, Brasil. raquelmlana@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Raquel Martins
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Lana
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Computação (DECOM), Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Biológicas (ICEB), Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) - Campus Morro do Cruzeiro, Ouro Preto, MG 35400-000, Brasil. tiago@iceb.ufop.br.
authors.forename: Tiago Garcia
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: de Senna Carneiro
authors.affiliation: Programa de Computação Científica (PROCC), Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21045-900, Brasil. codeco@fiocruz.br.
authors.forename: Cláudia Torres
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Codeço
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Computação e Sistemas (DECSI), Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Aplicadas (ICEA), Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) - Campus João Monlevade, João Monlevade, MG 35931-008, Brasil. gabrielmchdo@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Gabriel Souza
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Machado
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Computação e Sistemas (DECSI), Instituto de Ciências Exatas e Aplicadas (ICEA), Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) - Campus João Monlevade, João Monlevade, MG 35931-008, Brasil. saraivalucas12@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Lucas Saraiva
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Ciência e Tecnologia, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), São José dos Campos, SP 12247-004, Brasil. liliam.medeiros@ict.unesp.br.
authors.forename: Líliam César
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: de Castro Medeiros
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Ciência da Computação (DCC), Instituto de Ciências Exatas (ICEx), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, MG 31270-010, Brasil. clodoveu@dcc.ufmg.br.
authors.forename: Clodoveu Augusto
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Davis Junior
mesh_terms: D000330:Aedes / Q000254:growth & development / Q000821:virology; D000818:Animals; D003715:Dengue / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D003716:Dengue Virus; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000254:growth & development / Q000821:virology; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011157:Population Dynamics; D062211:Spatio-Temporal Analysis; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: Aedes aegypti; DengueME; dengue; framework; model; modeling; simulation; spatiotemporal