Research Article

An Agent-Based Epidemic Simulation of Social Behaviors Affecting HIV Transmission among Taiwanese Homosexuals

Table 1

Simulation parameters for our proposed agent-based HIV epidemic model.

AttributeData typeDescription

Population sizeIntegerTotal number of agents.
Alpha pop. sizeInteger
Beta pop. sizeInteger
Gamma pop. sizeInteger
Max contactsIntegerMaximum number of sexual contacts for one agent in one month.
Real
Real
NCIntegerNumber of sexual contacts for one agent in one month.
DeltaIntegerNumber of sexual contacts with fixed partners.
EpsilonIntegerNumber of sexual contacts with nonfixed partners.