Supplementary Information Comparing large-scale computational approaches to epidemic modeling: agent-based versus structured metapopulation models

The agent-based model, adapted from that proposed by [1, 2], is a stochastic, spatially structured, individual based, discrete time epidemic simulator. The spread of the infection is modeled by explicitly considering transmission in households, schools and workplaces, and random contacts in the general population (see also [3, 5]). The model consists of (A) a sociodemographic model, in which individuals are co-located in households, schools, workplaces on the basis of census and commuting data, and (B) of an epidemiological model describing the spatio-temporal spread of the epidemic in the country.