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Tradeoffs in Hierarchical Voting Systems
Lucas Böttcher, Georgia Kernell
Condorcet's jury theorem states that the correct outcome is reached in direct majority voting systems with sufficiently large electorates as long as each voter's independent probab…
Epidemic Management and Control Through Risk-Dependent Individual Contact Interventions
Tapio Schneider, Oliver R. A. Dunbar, Jinlong Wu +8
Testing, contact tracing, and isolation (TTI) is an epidemic management and control approach that is difficult to implement at scale because it relies on manual tracing of contacts…
Controlling epidemics through optimal allocation of test kits and vaccine doses across networks
Mingtao Xia, Lucas Böttcher, Tom Chou
Efficient testing and vaccination protocols are critical aspects of epidemic management. To study the optimal allocation of limited testing and vaccination resources in a heterogen…
On the accuracy of short-term COVID-19 fatality forecasts
Nino Antulov-Fantulin, Lucas Böttcher
Forecasting new cases, hospitalizations, and disease-induced deaths is an important part of infectious disease surveillance and helps guide health officials in implementing effecti…
A statistical model of COVID-19 testing in populations: effects of sampling bias and testing errors
Lucas Böttcher, Maria R. D'Orsogna, Tom Chou
We develop a statistical model for the testing of disease prevalence in a population. The model assumes a binary test result, positive or negative, but allows for biases in sample…
Implicit energy regularization of neural ordinary-differential-equation control
Lucas Böttcher, Nino Antulov-Fantulin, Thomas Asikis
Although optimal control problems of dynamical systems can be formulated within the framework of variational calculus, their solution for complex systems is often analytically and…