There are many normative and technical questions involved in evaluating the quality of software used in epidemiological simulations. In this paper we answer some of these questions and offer practical guidance to practitioners, funders, scientific journals, and consumers of epidemiological research. The heart of our paper is a case study of the Imperial College London (ICL) COVID-19 simulator. We contend that epidemiological simulators should be engineered and evaluated within the framework of safety-critical standards developed by the consensus of the software engineering community for applications such as automotive and aircraft control.

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流行病学建模的软件工程标准

评估用于流行病学模拟的软件的质量涉及许多规范和技术问题。在本文中，我们回答了其中一些问题，并为流行病学研究的从业者、资助者、科学期刊和消费者提供了实用指导。我们论文的核心是伦敦帝国理工学院 (ICL) COVID-19 模拟器的案例研究。我们认为，应在软件工程社区为汽车和飞机控制等应用程序制定的安全关键标准框架内设计和评估流行病学模拟器。