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ArticleSustainable cities and society2020

Data-driven dynamic clustering framework for mitigating the adverse economic impact of Covid-19 lockdown practices.

Md Arafatur Rahman, Nafees Zaman, A Taufiq Asyhari, Fadi Al-Turjman, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, M F Zolkipli

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Article in Sustainable cities and society, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Md Arafatur RahmanFaculty of Computing, University Malaysia Pahang, Gambang 26300, Malaysia.
Nafees ZamanIBM CoE, Malaysia.
A Taufiq AsyhariSchool of Computing and Digital Technology, Birmingham City University, Millennium Point, Birmingham, B4 7XG, UK.
Fadi Al-TurjmanResearch Center for AI and IoT, Near East University, 99138 Nicosia, Turkey.
Md Zakirul Alam BhuiyanDepartment of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University, New York, NY 10458, USA.
M F ZolkipliFaculty of Computing, University Malaysia Pahang, Gambang 26300, Malaysia.
Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah · MYBirmingham City University · GBFordham University · USNear East University · CY

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 disease has once again reiterated the impact of pandemics beyond a biomedical event with potential rapid, dramatic, sweeping disruptions to the management, and conduct of everyday life. Not only the rate and pattern of contagion that threaten our sense of healthy living but also the safety measures put in place for containing the spread of the virus may require social distancing. Three different measures to counteract this pandemic situation have emerged, namely: (i) vaccination, (ii) herd immunity development, and (iii) lockdown. As the first measure is not ready at this stage and the second measure is largely considered unreasonable on the account of the gigantic number of fatalities, a vast majority of countries have practiced the third option despite having a potentially immense adverse economic impact. To mitigate such an impact, this paper proposes a data-driven dynamic clustering framework for moderating the adverse economic impact of COVID-19 flare-up. Through an intelligent fusion of healthcare and simulated mobility data, we model lockdown as a clustering problem and design a dynamic clustering algorithm for localized lockdown by taking into account the pandemic, economic and mobility aspects. We then validate the proposed algorithms by conducting extensive simulations using the Malaysian context as a case study. The findings signify the promises of dynamic clustering for lockdown coverage reduction, reduced economic loss, and military unit deployment reduction, as well as assess potential impact of uncooperative civilians on the contamination rate. The outcome of this work is anticipated to pave a way for significantly reducing the severe economic impact of the COVID-19 spreading. Moreover, the idea can be exploited for potentially the next waves of corona virus-related diseases and other upcoming viral life-threatening calamities.

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Covid-19Dynamic clusteringLockdownPandemic

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PMID32834935
PMCPMC7333601
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