IBMF is an individual based modeling framework. It uses Gillespie method to simulate a real time stochastic individual-based model.

It consists two parts:

• IBMF: The basic framework
• IBMFEM: extend the basic framework to the modeling of the spread of epidemics in the population.

Though not officially part of IBMF libraries, another library that is provided here is used to parse a parameter file, or parameters given as arguments to a program. This is defined in:

• Parameters: the library that handles parameter parsing.