The 26th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation 2025 (MODSIM2025) at the Adelaide Convention Centre was a great conference. Research Fellow Madalene Oberin presented a poster on how the AADISmodel can be used to investigate spillover transmission between domestic and feral pigs during African swine fever outbreaks.
As AADIS is a stochastic model, it occasionally generates ‘black swan’ outbreaks which balloon up to devastating size and impact. A/Prof Richard Bradhurst gave a presentation on how AADIS can be used to investigate the epidemiological triggers behind black swan FMD outbreaks and how the chance of a black swan increases greatly if FMD is introduced in a willful and targeted manner as opposed to accidentally. 
