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from Scientific American:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he creation of models such as TRANSIMS that simulate human movements through urban environments was the computational breakthrough that made EpiSims possible, and epidemiology is only one potential application for this kind of individual-based modeling. We are also in the process of creating and linking simulations of other sociotechnical systems, including environmental and atmospheric pollution, telecommunications, transportation, commodity markets, water supplies and power grids, to provide virtual laboratories for exploring solutions to a wide variety of real-world problems.