Denis A Aliyev,Craig L Zirbel
Denis A Aliyev
Given a sample of n data points and an n by n dissimilarity matrix, data seriation methods produce a linear ordering of the objects, putting similar objects nearby in the ordering. One may visualize the reordered dissimilarity matrix with a...
Moutaz Khouja,Ramzi Hammami
Moutaz Khouja
Many stockpiled personnel protective equipment (PPE) were of no use during COVID-19 because they have expired. The need for rethinking past approaches of building PPE stockpiles without planning for their timely rotation has become clear. W...
Introduction to the special issue on the role of operational research in future epidemics/ pandemics [0.03%]
特刊介绍：运筹学在将来传染病/大流行病中作用
Reza Zanjirani Farahani,Rubén Ruiz,Luk N Van Wassenhove
Reza Zanjirani Farahani
In this special issue, 23 research papers are published focusing on COVID-19 and operational research solution techniques. First, we detail the process from advertising the call for papers to the point where the best papers are accepted. Th...
Nick F D Huberts,Jacco J J Thijssen
Nick F D Huberts
In response to the recent outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus governments have aimed to reduce the virus's spread through, inter alia, non-pharmaceutical intervention. We address the question when such measures should be implemented and, once ...
Holger Kraft,Farina Weiss
Holger Kraft
COVID-19 has taught us that a pandemic can significantly increase biometric risk and at the same time trigger crashes of the stock market. Taking these potential co-movements of financial and non-financial risks into account, we study the p...
Dynamic planning of a two-dose vaccination campaign with uncertain supplies [0.03%]
不确定供应的两剂疫苗接种动态规划
Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore,Francesco Parino,Lorenzo Zino et al.
Giuseppe Carlo Calafiore et al.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led public health authorities to face the unprecedented challenge of planning a global vaccination campaign, which for most protocols entails the administration of two doses, separated by a bounded but flex...
Designing an optimal sequence of non-pharmaceutical interventions for controlling COVID-19 [0.03%]
设计用于控制COVID-19的非药物干预措施的最佳顺序
Debajyoti Biswas,Laurent Alfandari
Debajyoti Biswas
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on global health and the economy since its inception in December, 2019 in Wuhan, China. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) like lockdowns and curfews have been deployed by affected c...
Mohammad Fattahi,Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh,Devika Kannan et al.
Mohammad Fattahi et al.
We study resource planning strategies, including the integrated healthcare resources' allocation and sharing as well as patients' transfer, to improve the response of health systems to massive increases in demand during epidemics and pandem...
Modularity maximization to design contiguous policy zones for pandemic response [0.03%]
利用模块最大化法为疫情应对设计连贯政策区域
Milad Baghersad,Mohsen Emadikhiav,C Derrick Huang et al.
Milad Baghersad et al.
The health and economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has created a significant global humanitarian disaster. Pandemic response policies guided by geospatial approaches are appropriate additions to traditional epidemiological ...
Parallel Subgradient Algorithm with Block Dual Decomposition for Large-scale Optimization [0.03%]
基于块对偶分解的并行次梯度大规模优化算法
Yuchen Zheng,Yujia Xie,Ilbin Lee et al.
Yuchen Zheng et al.
This paper studies computational approaches for solving large-scale optimization problems using a Lagrangian dual reformulation, solved by parallel sub-gradient methods. Since there are many possible reformulations for a given problem, an i...