Blood type
This page contains a research report representing semestral project for 4IT495 Simulation of Systems class (WS 2012/2013).
- Project name: Blood type
- Class: 4IT495 Simulation of Systems (WS 2012/2013)
- Author: Marta Machová
- Model type: Agent-based simulation
- Software used: NetLogo 5.0.1
Contents
Problem definition
Importance of blood group system
Blood type is property of blood, that is most important for blood donation. The exact blood group of recipient need the same blood group or group, that is acceptable. Its the reason, why number of each blood group representatives is so important information for transfusion department. Transfusion can save ones life it can also kill, when is incompatible group given to recipient.
Another important reason why to explore blood group is, that it says ways of migration of human tribes because blood group was evolving in time, the first was established the "0" type without any antigens (antibody generator) and in evolution of human race was developing according to changing of enviromental conditions. So its important also for anthropology because it answer few questions of human (or race) origin.
The way of formation blood type
The type of blood is inherited by parents. But child don't inherits blood group from one of parents, but in fact, it interits one of allele from mother and one of allele from father. Two alleles together give rice to exact group. The blood-type-creation principle is shown in model.
Method
In model, there is used the method of multi-agent simulation. The reason of this choice is, that each agent have some properties and behavior, that makes the system very complex and hard to describe upper-level behavior. So multiagent simulation is suitable because of unpreddictable global progress.
