Ebook: Predictive Models for Decision Support in the COVID-19 Crisis
Author: Joao Alexandre Lobo Marques Francisco Nauber Bernardo Gois José Xavier-Neto Simon James Fong
- Tags: Engineering, Engineering Economics Organization Logistics Marketing, Epidemiology, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
- Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
- Year: 2021
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Language: English
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COVID-19 has hit the world unprepared, as the deadliest pandemic of the century. Governments and authorities, as leaders and decision makers fighting the virus, enormously tap into the power of artificial intelligence and its predictive models for urgent decision support. This book showcases a collection of important predictive models that used during the pandemic, and discusses and compares their efficacy and limitations.
Readers from both healthcare industries and academia can gain unique insights on how predictive models were designed and applied on epidemic data. Taking COVID19 as a case study and showcasing the lessons learnt, this book will enable readers to be better prepared in the event of virus epidemics or pandemics in the future.