Hybrid metapopulation agent-based epidemiological models for efficient insight on the individual scale: A contribution to green computing.

Emerging infectious diseases and climate change are two of the major challenges in 21st century. Although over the past decades, highly-resolved mathematical models have contributed in understanding dynamics of infectious diseases and are of great aid when it comes to finding suitable intervention measures, they may need substantial computational effort and produce significant CO emissions. Two popular modeling approaches for mitigating infectious disease dynamics are agent-based and population-based models.