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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced changes in production and especially in human interaction, with "social distancing" a standard prescription for slowing transmission of the disease. This paper examines the economic effects of social…

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The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, emerged into a world being rapidly transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) based on big data, computational power and neural networks. The gaze of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Yipeng Hu , Joseph Jacob , Geoffrey JM Parker , David J Hawkes , John R Hurst , Danail Stoyanov

The power grid is undergoing significant restructuring driven by the adoption of wind/solar power and the incorporation of new flexible technologies that can shift load in space and time (e.g., data centers, battery storage, and modular…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Weiqi Zhang , Victor M. Zavala

The COVID-19 outbreak has dramatically changed travel behavior in affected cities. The C2SMART research team has been investigating the impact of COVID-19 on mobility and sociability. New York City (NYC) and Seattle, two of the cities most…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Fan Zuo , Jingxing Wang , Jingqin Gao , Kaan Ozbay , Xuegang Jeff Ban , Yubin Shen , Hong Yang , Shri Iyer

Many transport authorities are collecting and publishing almost real-time road traffic data to meet the growing trend of massive open data, a vital resource for foresight decision support systems considering deep data insights. We explored…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Sujit Kumar Sikder , Jyotirmaya Ijaradar , Hao Li , Hichem Omrani

Human mobility plays a critical role in urban planning and policy-making. However, at certain spatial and temporal resolutions, it is very challenging to track, for example, job and housing mobility. In this study, we explore the usage of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Yawen Zhang , Seth Spielman , Qi Liu , Si Shen , Jason Shuo Zhang , Qin Lv

We study the analysis of all the movements of the population on the basis of their mobility from one node to another, to observe, measure, and predict the impact of traffic according to this mobility. The frequency of congestion on roads…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-14 Henock M. Mboko , Mouhamadou A. M. T. Balde , Babacar M. Ndiaye

Reliable short term forecasting can provide potentially lifesaving insights into logistical planning, and in particular, into the optimal allocation of resources such as hospital staff and equipment. By reinterpreting COVID-19 daily cases…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-06 Yi Liang , James Unwin

Social distancing is an important component of the response to the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Minimizing social interactions and travel reduces the rate at which the infection spreads, and "flattens the curve" such that the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Paiheng Xu , Mark Dredze , David A. Broniatowski

While much work focuses on the impacts of the pandemic on people's psychological and physical health, it is still unclear about the practical changes and adaptations. In this work, we interviewed 46 participants who were forced to work from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jie Cai , Sarah J Ryu , Hyejin Hannah Kum-Biocca , Donghee Yvette Wohn

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 8 million confirmed cases and 500,000 death to date. In response to this emergency, many countries have introduced a series of social-distancing measures including lockdowns and businesses'…

General Economics · Economics 2020-07-08 Carlo Fezzi , Valeria Fanghella

The COVID-19 outbreak forced governments worldwide to impose lockdowns and quarantines to prevent virus transmission. As a consequence, there are disruptions in human and economic activities all over the globe. The recovery process is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Rodrigo Minetto , Mauricio Pamplona Segundo , Gilbert Rotich , Sudeep Sarkar

COVID-19 has been affecting every aspect of societal life including human mobility since December, 2019. In this paper, we study the impact of COVID-19 on human mobility patterns at the state level within the United States. From the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Songhe Wang , Kangda Wei , Lei Lin , Weizi Li

The spread of COVID-19 leads to the global shutdown of many corporate offices, and encourages companies to open more opportunities that allow employees to work from a remote location. As the workplace type expands from onsite offices to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Qinyi Zhu , Liang Wu , Qi Guo , Liangjie Hong

As a worldwide pandemic, the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has caused serious restrictions in people's social life, along with the loss of lives, the collapse of economies and the disruption of humanitarian aids. Despite the advance of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Ahmet M. Elbir , Gokhan Gurbilek , Burak Soner , Anastasios K. Papazafeiropoulos , Pandelis Kourtessis , Sinem Coleri

The research team has utilized an integrated dataset, consisting of anonymized location data, COVID-19 case data, and census population information, to study the impact of COVID-19 on human mobility. The study revealed that statistics…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Sepehr Ghader , Jun Zhao , Minha Lee , Weiyi Zhou , Guangchen Zhao , Lei Zhang

Commuting is an important part of daily life. With the gradual recovery from COVID-19 and more people returning to work from the office, the transmission of COVID-19 during commuting becomes a concern. Recent emerging mobility services…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-09 Baichuan Mo , Peyman Noursalehi , Haris N. Koutsopoulos , Jinhua Zhao

The novel Corona virus pandemic is one of the biggest worldwide problems right now. While hygiene and wearing masks make up a large portion of the currently suggested precautions by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Sukru Yaren Gelbal , Mustafa Ridvan Cantas , Bilin Aksun-Guvenc , Levent Guvenc

The rapid spread of the Coronavirus SARS-2 is a major challenge that led almost all governments worldwide to take drastic measures to respond to the tragedy. Chief among those measures is the massive lockdown of entire countries and cities,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Salah Ghamizi , Renaud Rwemalika , Lisa Veiber , Maxime Cordy , Tegawende F. Bissyande , Mike Papadakis , Jacques Klein , Yves Le Traon

During the COVID-19 pandemic, policy makers at the Greater London Authority, the regional governance body of London, UK, are reliant upon prompt and accurate data sources. Large well-defined heterogeneous compositions of activity throughout…

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