Recently, an increasing number of laws have governed the useability of users' privacy. For
example, Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the right to be …

Digital contact tracing applications represent a powerful yet controversial strategy to combat
the COVID-19 pandemic. Manual contact tracing has important challenges, not limited to …

This paper presents the Transplantation, Adaptation and Creation (TAC) framework, a
method for assessing the localization of different elements of an AI system. This framework is …

Contact tracing can be defined as the identification and the monitoring of each person who
has been in contact with an infected person. However, the effectiveness of manual contact …

The global and national response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been inadequate due to a
collective lack of preparation and a shortage of available tools for responding to a large …

Recently, there have been many efforts to use mobile apps as an aid in contact tracing to
control the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

Contact tracing is an essential tool to mitigate the impact of a pandemic, such as the COVID-
19 pandemic. In order to achieve efficient and scalable contact tracing in real time, digital …

We point out an instantiation of Simpson's paradox in COVID-19 case fatality rates (cfr s):
comparing a large-scale study from China (February 17) with early reports from Italy (March …

The pandemic in 2020 and 2021 had enormous economic and societal consequences, and
studies show that contact-tracing algorithms can be key in the early containment of the virus …

Conventional techniques of epidemic modeling are based on compartmental models, where
population groups are transitioning from one compartment to another-for example, S, I, or …