12–17 Jul 2026
University of Graz
Europe/Vienna timezone

A Hybrid Networked SEIR Model with Generative-AI Driven Agents for Behavioral Heterogeneity in Epidemics

MS169-03
16 Jul 2026, 17:40
20m
15.02 - HS (University of Graz)

15.02 - HS

University of Graz

121

Speaker

Jia Zhao (The University of Alabama, USA)

Description

In this paper, we develop a hybrid, networked SEIR framework that integrates generative AI-driven agents to capture individualized protective behavior. Each agent is characterized by demographic and socioeconomic attributes, and a large language model (LLM) generated daily willingness-to-comply scores from prompts that encode personal traits, occupation, and income, local and global epidemic conditions, social influence, and policy strength. These AI-generated behavioral states modulate edge-level infection risk on dynamic physical contact networks, thereby linking individual decision-making to population-level transmission outcomes. We further embed the same behavioral mechanism into empirically measured temporal contact networks from six real-world scenarios (conference, hospital, workplace, high school, primary school, and college campus).

Author

Jia Zhao (The University of Alabama, USA)

Co-authors

Jinming Wan (State University of New York at Binghamton) Md Obaidul Haque (University of Alabama) Kaitlin Ho (State University of New York at Binghamton) James Giuffre (State University of New York at Binghamton) Changqing Cheng (State University of New York at Binghamton)

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