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Pandemics have the potential to cause immense disruption and damage to communities and societies. In this paper, we model the Influenza Pandemic of 2009. We propose a hybrid model to determine how the pandemic spreads through the world. The…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2010-06-02 Teruhiko Yoneyama , Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy

This paper investigates various ways in which a pandemic such as the novel coronavirus, could be predicted using different mathematical models. It also studies the various ways in which these models could be depicted using various…

General Economics · Economics 2021-02-16 Shailesh Bharati , Rahul Batra

Pooled testing offers an efficient solution to the unprecedented testing demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, although with potentially lower sensitivity and increased costs to implementation in some settings. Assessments of this trade-off…

Applications · Statistics 2021-07-13 Saskia Comess , Hannah Wang , Susan Holmes , Claire Donnat

COVID-19 has challenged health systems to learn how to learn. This paper describes the context, methods and challenges for learning to improve COVID-19 care at one academic health center. Challenges to learning include: (1) choosing a right…

People use search engines to find answers to questions related to their health, finances, or other socially relevant issues. However, most users are unaware that search results are considerably influenced by search engine marketing (SEM).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Sebastian Schultheiß

During an infectious disease pandemic, it is critical to share electronic medical records or models (learned from these records) across regions. Applying one region's data/model to another region often have distribution shift issues that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Ye Ye , Andrew Gu

Despite the somewhat different techniques used in developing search engines and recommender systems, they both follow the same goal: helping people to get the information they need at the right time. Due to this common goal, search and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Hamed Zamani , W. Bruce Croft

In the age of social computing, finding interesting network patterns or motifs is significant and critical for various areas such as decision intelligence, intrusion detection, medical diagnosis, social network analysis, fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Shuo Yu , Feng Xia , Yuchen Sun , Tao Tang , Xiaoran Yan , Ivan Lee

Users issue queries to Search Engines, and try to find the desired information in the results produced. They repeat this process if their information need is not met at the first place. It is crucial to identify the important words in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Kishaloy Halder , Heng-Tze Cheng , Ellie Ka In Chio , Georgios Roumpos , Tao Wu , Ritesh Agarwal

COVID-19 is one of the most important topic these days, specifically on search engines and news. While fake news are easily shared, scientific papers are reliable sources where information can be extracted. With about 24,000 scientific…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Bernard Dousset , Josiane Mothe

Controlling infectious diseases is a major health priority because they can spread and infect humans, thus evolving into epidemics or pandemics. Therefore, early detection of infectious diseases is a significant need, and many researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Eman Yahia Alqaissi , Fahd Saleh Alotaibi , Muhammad Sher Ramzan

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) is probably the most disruptive global health disaster in recent history. It negatively impacted the whole world and virtually brought the global economy to a standstill. However, as the virus was…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Oluwaseun Ajao , Ashish Garg , Marjory Da Costa-Abreu

As COVID-19 pandemic progresses, severe flu seasons may happen alongside an increase in cases in cases and death of COVID-19, causing severe burdens on health care resources and public safety. A consequence of a twindemic may be a mixture…

Applications · Statistics 2022-02-08 Simin Ma , Shaoyang Ning , Shihao Yang

The amount of data, manpower and capital required to understand, evaluate and agree on a group of symptoms for the elementary prognosis of pandemic diseases is enormous. In this paper, we present FedPandemic, a novel noise implementation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Aman Priyanshu , Rakshit Naidu

The COVID-19 pandemic and the mitigation policies implemented in response to it have resulted in economic losses worldwide. Attempts to understand the relationship between economics and epidemiology has lead to a new generation of…

Nowadays, learning increasingly involves the usage of search engines and web resources. The related interdisciplinary research field search as learning aims to understand how people learn on the web. Previous work has investigated several…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Wolfgang Gritz , Anett Hoppe , Ralph Ewerth

Health misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly challenged public health efforts globally. This study applies the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) to enhance misinformation detection on social media using a hybrid…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mkululi Sikosana , Sean Maudsley-Barton , Oluwaseun Ajao

All groups of people felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This situation triggers anxiety, which is bad for everyone. The government's role is very influential in solving these problems with its work program. It also has many pros and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Shoffan Saifullah , Yuli Fauziah , Agus Sasmito Aribowo

Early detection and modeling of a contagious epidemic can provide important guidance about quelling the contagion, controlling its spread, or the effective design of countermeasures. A topic of recent interest has been to design social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Huijuan Shao , K. S. M. Tozammel Hossain , Hao Wu , Maleq Khan , Anil Vullikanti , B. Aditya Prakash , Madhav Marathe , Naren Ramakrishnan

Online medical forums are a rich and underutilized source of insight into patient concerns, especially regarding medication use. Some of the many questions users pose may signal confusion, misuse, or even the early warning signs of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Dvora Goncharok , Arbel Shifman , Alexander Apartsin , Yehudit Aperstein