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Governments have used social distancing to stem the spread of COVID-19, but lack evidence on the most effective policy to ensure compliance. We examine the effectiveness of fines and informational messages (nudges) in promoting social…

General Economics · Economics 2025-05-19 Edoardo Gallo , Darija Barak , Alastair Langtry

COVID-19 continues to spread across the country and around the world. Current strategies for managing the spread of COVID-19 include social distancing. We present VERA, an interactive AI tool, that first enables users to specify conceptual…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-02 William Broniec , Sungeun An , Spencer Rugaber , Ashok K. Goel

The novel COVID-19 pandemic is a current, major global health threat. Up till now, there is no fully approved pharmacological treatment or a vaccine. In this study, simple mathematical models were employed to examine the dynamics of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-25 Ahmed S. Elgazzar

Currently, many countries are facing the problems of aging population, serious imbalance of medical resources supply and demand, as well as uneven geographical distribution, resulting in a huge demand for remote e-health. Particularly, with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Wei Duan , Yancheng Ji , Yan Zhang , Guoan Zhang , Valerio Frascolla , Xin Li

One of the main and most effective measures to contain the recent viral outbreak is the maintenance of the so-called Social Distancing (SD). To comply with this constraint, workplaces, public institutions, transports and schools will likely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Marco Cristani , Alessio Del Bue , Vittorio Murino , Francesco Setti , Alessandro Vinciarelli

In telecommunications, network service accessibility as a requirement is closely related to equitably serving the population residing at locations that can most appropriately be described as remote. Remote connectivity, however, would have…

Due to the global pandemic of COVID-19, there is an urgent need to utilize existing technologies to their full potential. Internet of Things (IoT) is regarded as one of the most trending technologies with a great potential in fighting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Mohsin Kamal , Abdulah Aljohani , Eisa Alanazi

The COVID-19 virus has caused a global pandemic since March 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) has provided guidelines on how to reduce the spread of the virus and one of the most important measures is social distancing. Maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Mert Seker , Anssi Männistö , Alexandros Iosifidis , Jenni Raitoharju

An outbreak of the coronavirus disease which occurred three years later and it has hit the world again with many evolutions. The effects on the human race have already been profound. We can only safeguard ourselves against this pandemic by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Sangeetha R. G , Jaya Aravindh V.

Recent years have seen rapid deployment of mobile computing and Internet of Things (IoT) networks, which can be mostly attributed to the increasing communication and sensing capabilities of wireless systems. Big data analysis, pervasive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Dinh C. Nguyen , Peng Cheng , Ming Ding , David Lopez-Perez , Pubudu N. Pathirana , Jun Li , Aruna Seneviratne , Yonghui Li , H. Vincent Poor

With the spiraling pandemic of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), it has becoming inherently important to disseminate accurate and timely information about the disease. Due to the ubiquity of Internet connectivity and smart devices,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Md Tahmid Rashid , Dong Wang

While fifth-generation (5G) communications are being rolled out worldwide, sixth-generation (6G) communications have attracted much attention from both the industry and the academia. Compared with 5G, 6G will have a wider frequency band,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Yang Zhao , Wenchao Zhai , Jun Zhao , Tinghao Zhang , Sumei Sun , Dusit Niyato , Kwok-Yan Lam

COVID-19 has changed our world and has filled people with fear and anxiety. Everyone has a fear of coming in contact with people having the Coronavirus. In Spite of releasing full lockdowns, there is still a pressing need to maintain social…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ruchita Bhadre , Prathamesh Yeole , Tejas Ranka , Rohini Mudhalwadkar

The COVID-19 crisis represents the most dangerous threat to public health since the H1N1 influenza pandemic of 1918. So far, the disease due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been countered with extreme measures at national level that attempt to…

While social living is considered to be an indispensable part of human life in today's ever-connected world, social distancing has recently received much public attention on its importance since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Zhijun Wu

The COVID-19 pandemic has proved to be one of the most disruptive public health emergencies in recent memory. Among non-pharmaceutical interventions, social distancing and lockdown measures are some of the most common tools employed by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Carl Corcoran , John Michael Clark

A primary indicator of success in the fight against COVID-19 is avoiding stress on critical care infrastructure and services (CCIS). However, CCIS will likely remain stressed until sustained herd immunity is built. There are also secondary…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Ashlesha Nesarikar , Waqas Haque , Suchith Vuppala , Abhijit Nesarikar

The unprecedented outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), during early December 2019 in Wuhan, China, has quickly evolved into a global pandemic, became a matter of grave concern, and placed government agencies worldwide in a…

Digital technology is everywhere for the benefit of our daily and professional life. It strongly impacts our life and was crucial to maintain professional and social activities during the COVID19 crisis. Similarly, digital technologies are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Pierre Jannin

Pandemics always have had serious consequences unless they were effectively contained. Recent experiences with COVID-19 show that by using a smart and swift approach to deal with pandemics, avoids overwhelming of healthcare systems, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Muhammad Ilyas , Basit Qureshi