Mitigating virus spread through dynamic control of community-based social interactions for infection rate and cost

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4697018
AutoresAhmad Zareie (0000-0002-2081-8112, University of Manchester, autor correspondente), Rizos Sakellariou (0000-0002-6104-6649, University of Manchester)
Ano2022
Volume12
Fascículo1
Páginas132-132
Data de publicação2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Network Analysis and Mining (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1869-5450 • E-ISSN: 1869-5469
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s13278-022-00953-1
PMID36105921
OpenAlexW4295198024
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas45

The emergence of a new virus in a community may cause significant overload on health services and may spread out to other communities quickly. Social distancing may help reduce the infection rate within a community and prevent the spread of the virus to other communities. However, social distancing comes at a cost; how to strike a good balance between reduction in infection rate and cost of social distancing may be a challenging problem. In this paper, this problem is formulated as a bi-objective optimization problem. Assuming that in a community-based society interaction links have different capacities, the problem is how to determine link capacity to achieve a good trade-off between infection rate and the costs of social distancing restrictions. A standard epidemic model, Susceptible-Infected-Recovered, is extended to model the spread of a virus in the communities. Two methods are proposed to determine dynamically the extent of contact restriction during a virus outbreak. These methods are evaluated using two synthetic networks; the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the methods in decreasing both infection rate and social distancing cost compared to naive methods

Biology · Business · Virus · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Artificial Intelligence · Virology