ArticleInformation sciences2023
HRL4EC: Hierarchical reinforcement learning for multi-mode epidemic control.
Article in Information sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Data-driven strategies for model-informed decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2026Pooled it
- Optimizing spatiotemporal nonpharmaceutical interventions for influenza: An adaptive reinforcement learning approach for regional heterogeneity.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2026Article
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- Reinforcement learning for healthcare operations management: methodological framework, recent developments, and future research directions.Health care management science · 2025Review
- Integrating artificial intelligence with mechanistic epidemiological modeling: a scoping review of opportunities and challenges.Nature communications · 2025Article
- A Networked Meta-Population Epidemic Model with Population Flow and Its Application to the Prediction of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Infectious diseases, such as Black Death, Spanish Flu, and COVID-19, have accompanied human history and threatened public health, resulting in enormous infections and even deaths among citizens. Because of their rapid development and huge impact, laying out interventions becomes one of the most critical paths for policymakers to respond to the epidemic. However, the existing studies mainly focus on epidemic control with a single intervention, which makes the epidemic control effectiveness severely compromised. In view of this, we propose a
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