• Corpus ID: 219636102

Dynamic Epidemic Control via Sequential Resource Allocation

@article{Fekom2020DynamicEC,
  title={Dynamic Epidemic Control via Sequential Resource Allocation},
  author={Mathilde Fekom and Nicolas Vayatis and Argyris Kalogeratos},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2006.07199}
}

• M. Fekom, N. Vayatis, Argyris Kalogeratos
• Published 11 June 2020
• Computer Science
• ArXiv

In the Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) problem, an administrator has to allocate a limited amount of resources to the nodes of a network in order to reduce a diffusion process (DP) (e.g. an epidemic). In this paper we propose a multi-round dynamic control framework, which we realize through two derived models: the Restricted and the Sequential DRA (RDRA, SDRA), that allows for restricted information and access to the entire network, contrary to standard full-information and full-access DRA models. At each intervention round, the administrator has only access -- simultaneous for the former, sequential for the latter -- to a fraction of the network nodes. This sequential aspect in the decision process offers a completely new perspective to the dynamic DP control, making this work the first to cast the dynamic control problem as a series of sequential selection problems. Through in-depth SIS epidemic simulations we compare the performance of our multi-round approach with other resource allocation strategies and several sequential selection algorithms on both generated, and real-data networks. The results provide evidence about the efficiency and applicability of the proposed framework for real-life problems.