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This paper presents a real time, data driven decision support framework for epidemic control. We combine a compartmental epidemic model with sequential Bayesian inference and reinforcement learning (RL) controllers that adaptively choose…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-25 Giacomo Iannucci , Petros Barmpounakis , Alexandros Beskos , Nikolaos Demiris

Synthesis of finite-state controllers from high-level specifications in multi-agent systems can be reduced to solving multi-player concurrent games over finite graphs. The complexity of solving such games with qualitative objectives for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Shaull Almagor , Rajeev Alur , Suguman Bansal

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a policy making crisis where efforts to slow down or end the pandemic conflict with economic priorities. This paper provides mathematical analysis of optimal disease control policies with idealized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Aaron Z. Palmer , Zelda B. Zabinsky , Shan Liu

Various non pharmaceutical interventions have been settled to minimise the burden of the COVID-19 outbreak. We build a framework to analyse the dynamics of non pharmaceutical interventions, to distinguish between mitigations measures…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-23 Laurent Evain , Jean-Jacques Loeb

Modelling epidemics via classical population-based models suffers from shortcomings that so-called individual-based models are able to overcome, as they are able to take heterogeneity features into account, such as super-spreaders, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-16 C. Courtès , E. Franck , K. Lutz , L. Navoret , Y. Privat

In this study, we present a new epidemiological model, with contamination from confirmed and unreported. We also compute equilibria and study their stability without intervention strategies. Optimal control theory has proven to be a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-14 Fulgence Mansal , Mouhamadou A. M. T. Baldé , Alpha O. Bah

This paper introduces two metrics (cycle-based and memory-based metrics), grounded on a dynamical game-theoretic solution concept called sink equilibrium, for the evaluation, ranking, and computation of policies in multi-agent learning. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Rui Yan , Xiaoming Duan , Zongying Shi , Yisheng Zhong , Jason R. Marden , Francesco Bullo

In this paper we address game theory problems arising in the context of network security. In traditional game theory problems, given a defender and an attacker, one searches for mixed strategies which minimize a linear payoff functional. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Giampaolo Liuzzi , Marco Locatelli , Veronica Piccialli , Stefan Rass

Mobility systems are complex socio-technical environments influenced by multiple stakeholders with hierarchically interdependent decisions, rendering effective control and policy design inherently challenging. We bridge hierarchical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Mingjia He , Zhiyu He , Jan Ghadamian , Florian Dörfler , Emilio Frazzoli , Gioele Zardini

We consider the problem of controlling an SIR-model epidemic by temporarily reducing the rate of contact within a population. The control takes the form of a multiplicative reduction in the contact rate of infectious individuals. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 David I. Ketcheson

Motivated by the swift global transmission of infectious diseases, we present a comprehensive framework for network-based epidemic control. Our aim is to curb epidemics using two different approaches. In the first approach, we introduce an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Mahtab Talaei , Apostolos I. Rikos , Alex Olshevsky , Laura F. White , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

In this work we analyze mathematically the consequences and effectiveness of strategies to control an epidemic in the framework of classical SEIR models with multiple parallel infectious stages. We define the mathematical concept of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Annibal Figueiredo , Tarcısio Marciano da Rocha Filho

The aim of this paper is twofold. On one hand, we strive to give a simpler proof of the optimality of greedy controls when the cost of interventions is control-affine and the dynamics follow a state-constrained controlled SIR model. This is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Lorenzo Freddi , Dan Goreac , Juan Li , Boxiang Xu

The spreading dynamics of an epidemic and the collective behavioral pattern of the population over which it spreads are deeply intertwined and the latter can critically shape the outcome of the former. Motivated by this, we design a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-25 Mengbin Ye , Lorenzo Zino , Alessandro Rizzo , Ming Cao

Coincident Peak (CP) pricing is widely used in U.S. electricity markets to allocate capacity and transmission costs. This paper develops a behavioral game-theoretic framework for CP-driven load shifting that couples a nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Qian Zhang , Sadie Zhao , Lucy Diao , Conleigh Byers , Yiling Chen , Derya Cansever , Le Xie

With autonomous vehicles (AV) set to integrate further into regular human traffic, there is an increasing consensus on treating AV motion planning as a multi-agent problem. However, the traditional game-theoretic assumption of complete…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Atrisha Sarkar , Krzysztof Czarnecki

We consider here an extended SIR model, including several features of the recent COVID-19 outbreak: in particular the infected and recovered individuals can either be detected (+) or undetected (-) and we also integrate an intensive care…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-25 Arthur Charpentier , Romuald Elie , Mathieu Laurière , Viet Chi Tran

We introduce a new type of Mean Field Game epidemiological models, in which subpopulations have different behavioral patterns: some are viewed as "highly rational" (choosing Nash-equilibrium long-term strategies) while others follow…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-24 Finnegan Buckley , Alexander Vladimirsky

Efficient testing and vaccination protocols are critical aspects of epidemic management. To study the optimal allocation of limited testing and vaccination resources in a heterogeneous contact network of interacting susceptible, recovered,…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-12 Mingtao Xia , Lucas Böttcher , Tom Chou

In this paper we consider non-atomic games in populations that are provided with a choice of preventive policies to act against a contagion spreading amongst interacting populations, be it biological organisms or connected computing…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yi Zhang , Sanjiv Kapoor