This paper presents an overview of some key results from a body of optimization studies that
are specifically related to COVID-19, as reported in the literature during 2020-2021. As …

The year 2020 saw the covid-19 virus lead to one of the worst global pandemics in history.
As a result, governments around the world have been faced with the challenge of protecting …

The spread of an undesirable contact process, such as an infectious disease (eg COVID-
19), is contained through testing and isolation of infected nodes. The temporal and spatial …

This paper presents methods to choose individuals to test for infection during a pandemic
such as COVID-19, characterized by high contagion and presence of asymptomatic carriers …

Contact tracing is one of the most important tools for preventing the spread of infectious
diseases, but as the experience of COVID-19 showed, it is also next-to-impossible to …

The multi-armed bandit (MAB) model is one of the most classical models to study decision-
making in an uncertain environment. In this model, a player chooses one of K possible arms …

This paper presents methods to choose individuals to test for infection during a pandemic
such as COVID-19, characterized by high contagion and presence of asymptomatic carriers …

Multiagent Epidemiologic Inference through Realtime Contact Tracing Page 1 Multiagent
Epidemiologic Inference through Realtime Contact Tracing Guni Sharon Computer Science & …

Abstract The Internet of Things and the next-generation networks have led to the generation,
dissemination, and transformation of a huge amount of real-time information. The …

This dissertation answers three questions on identifiability and estimability that arise in
policy-making and causal discovery. First, we study contact tracing as a tool to prevent the …