Noncompliance with safety guidelines as a free-riding strategy: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach to cooperation during the COVID-19 pandemic

JC Yong, BKC Choy - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Evolutionary game theory and public goods games offer an important framework to
understand cooperation during pandemics. From this perspective, the COVID-19 situation …

An epidemiological model with voluntary quarantine strategies governed by evolutionary game dynamics

MA Amaral, MM de Oliveira, MA Javarone - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2021 - Elsevier
During pandemic events, strategies such as social distancing can be fundamental to reduce
simultaneous infections and mitigate the disease spreading, which is very relevant to the risk …

Real‐Time Implementation of AI‐Based Face Mask Detection and Social Distancing Measuring System for COVID‐19 Prevention

S Teboulbi, S Messaoud, MA Hajjaji… - Scientific …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since the infectious coronavirus disease (COVID‐19) was first reported in Wuhan, it has
become a public health problem in China and even around the world. This pandemic is …

Prosocial behavior of wearing a mask during an epidemic: an evolutionary explanation

KMA Kabir, T Risa, J Tanimoto - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with limited or no supplies of vaccines and
treatments, people and policymakers seek easy to implement and cost-effective alternatives …

When face masks signal social identity: Explaining the deep face-mask divide during the COVID-19 pandemic

N Powdthavee, YE Riyanto, ECL Wong, JXW Yeo… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and the vaccination program still rolling out, there
continues to be an immediate need for public health officials to better understand the …

A study on prosocial behavior of wearing a mask and self-quarantining to prevent the spread of diseases underpinned by evolutionary game theory

R Tori, J Tanimoto - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
In the wake of COVID-19, mask-wearing practice and self-quarantine is thought to be the
most effective means of controlling disease spread. The current study develops an …

Identifying and ranking super spreaders in real world complex networks without influence overlap

G Maji, A Dutta, MC Malta, S Sen - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
In the present-days complex networks modeled on real-world data contain millions of nodes
and billions of links. Identifying super spreaders in such an extensive network is a …

Game-theoretic modeling of collective decision making during epidemics

M Ye, L Zino, A Rizzo, M Cao - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
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 …

Multilayer networks with higher-order interaction reveal the impact of collective behavior on epidemic dynamics

J Wan, G Ichinose, M Small, H Sayama… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted tremendous economic and societal losses. In
the absence of pharmaceutical interventions, the population behavioral response, including …

Dynamic analysis of mean-field and fractional-order epidemic vaccination strategies by evolutionary game approach

MS Ullah, M Higazy, KMA Kabir - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2022 - Elsevier
Individual's perception of the participant in a vaccine program reflects their intrinsic
appreciation of the trade-off between vaccine behavior, risk of infection, and memory effect …