TY - GEN
T1 - Greedy and Speedy
T2 - 13th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, BCB 2022
AU - Tavori, Jhonatan
AU - Levy, Hanoch
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/8/7
Y1 - 2022/8/7
N2 - Vaccinations mechanisms are common strategies for controlling the spread of viral spreading processes, such as epidemics and computer viruses. Their supply is often limited, and thus devising optimal strategies for their allocation and for their time of administration can be of high value to fight the epidemic spread. We account for arbitrary heterogeneous networks (populations) and consider the problem of multi-region systems. We prove a general property of the effective reproduction number: its reduction (under SIR models) is convex. Using this property, we analyze the effects of vaccination strategies on the acquirement of herd immunity and derive an efficient greedy algorithm that finds the optimal (HIT minimizing) allocation and administration timing of vaccines.
AB - Vaccinations mechanisms are common strategies for controlling the spread of viral spreading processes, such as epidemics and computer viruses. Their supply is often limited, and thus devising optimal strategies for their allocation and for their time of administration can be of high value to fight the epidemic spread. We account for arbitrary heterogeneous networks (populations) and consider the problem of multi-region systems. We prove a general property of the effective reproduction number: its reduction (under SIR models) is convex. Using this property, we analyze the effects of vaccination strategies on the acquirement of herd immunity and derive an efficient greedy algorithm that finds the optimal (HIT minimizing) allocation and administration timing of vaccines.
KW - Computational epidemiology
KW - Network heterogeneity
KW - Stochastic epidemic processes
KW - Vaccination strategies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137347156&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3535508.3545107
DO - 10.1145/3535508.3545107
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AN - SCOPUS:85137347156
T3 - Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, BCB 2022
BT - Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics, BCB 2022
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 7 August 2022 through 8 August 2022
ER -