Agent-based modeling in cancer biomedicine: applications and tools for calibration and validation

 We are very excited to announce that our scientific dream team (Nicolò Cogno, Cristian Axenie, Roman Bauer, and Vasileios Vavourakis) have published a masterpiece review on the topic of "Agent-based modeling in cancer biomedicine: applications and tools for calibration and validation" 


They focused on collecting and organizing relevant literature exploring strategies to leverage high-fidelity simulations of multi-scale, or multi-level, cancer models with a focus on verification approached as simulation calibration. The review then culminates in an outline of modern approaches for agent-based models’ validation providing an ambitious outlook toward rigorous and reliable calibration.

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