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ArticleAutomatica : the journal of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control2023

A Markovian model for the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Luigi Palopoli, Daniele Fontanelli, Marco Frego, Marco Roveri

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Article in Automatica : the journal of IFAC, the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Luigi PalopoliUniversity of Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Via Sommarive 9 - Povo, 38123 Trento (TN), Italy.
Daniele FontanelliUniversity of Trento, Department of Industrial Engineering, Via Sommarive 9, 38122 Povo (TN), Italy.
Marco FregoFree University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Science and Technology, via Volta 13 - NOI TechPark, 39100 Bolzano (BZ), Italy.
Marco RoveriUniversity of Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Via Sommarive 9 - Povo, 38123 Trento (TN), Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose a Markovian stochastic approach to model the spread of a SARS-CoV-2-like infection within a closed group of humans. The model takes the form of a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP), whose states are given by the number of subjects in different health conditions. The model also exposes the different parameters that have an impact on the spread of the disease and the various decision variables that can be used to control it (e.g, social distancing, number of tests administered to single out infected subjects). The model describes the stochastic phenomena that underlie the spread of the epidemic and captures, in the form of deterministic parameters, some fundamental limitations in the availability of resources (hospital beds and test swabs). The model lends itself to different uses. For a given control policy, it is possible to

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Healthcare managementModelling and control of biomedical systemsSARS-CoV-2Stochastic systemsVirus

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PMID36817632
PMCPMC9928740

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