Masks have remained an important mitigation strategy in the fight against COVID-19 due to their ability to prevent the transmission of respiratory droplets between individuals. In this work, we provide a comprehensive...
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Masks have remained an important mitigation strategy in the fight against COVID-19 due to their ability to prevent the transmission of respiratory droplets between individuals. In this work, we provide a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the impact of mask-wearing. To this end, we propose a novel agent-based model of viral spread on networks where agents may either wear no mask or wear one of several types of masks with different properties (e.g., cloth or surgical). We derive analytical expressions for three key epidemiological quantities: The probability of emergence, the epidemic threshold, and the expected epidemic size. In particular, we show how the aforementioned quantities depend on the structure of the contact network, viral transmission dynamics, and the distribution of the different types of masks within the population. Through extensive simulations, we then investigate the impact of different allocations of masks within the population and tradeoffs between the outward efficiency and inward efficiency of the masks. Interestingly, we find that masks with high outward efficiency and low inward efficiency are most useful for controlling the spread in the early stages of an epidemic, while masks with high inward efficiency but low outward efficiency are most useful in reducing the size of an already large spread. Last, we study whether degree-based mask allocation is more effective in reducing the probability of epidemic as well as epidemic size compared to random allocation. The result echoes the previous findings that mitigation strategies should differ based on the stage of the spreading process, focusing on source control before the epidemic emerges and on self-protection after the emergence.
Video target tracking is one of hot fields of computer vision, and its application is also very extensive. However, due to the complexity and variability of tracking environment, which brings some challenges to the re...
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This letter investigates the target search problem for a network of autonomous vehicles, aiming to maximize the detection of randomly appearing targets within a given area. Considering no prior knowledge of the target...
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This paper proposes a novel three-dimensional (3D) cluster-based sixth-generation (6G) model for millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels. In the proposed model, a novel method b...
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We consider F-term hybrid inflation and supersymmetry breaking in the context of a model which largely respects a global U(1) R symmetry. The Kähler potential parameterizes the Kähler manifold with an enhanc...
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Topological physics in electromagnetics has enabled topological edge-state waveguides, yet traditional propagation path designs of topological photonics are restricted by the geometry of the underlying periodic lattic...
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Topological physics in electromagnetics has enabled topological edge-state waveguides, yet traditional propagation path designs of topological photonics are restricted by the geometry of the underlying periodic lattice. Here, we propose a topological waveguide scheme based on Voronoi diagrams, allowing for arbitrary propagation paths and offering greater flexibility beyond the constraints of conventional periodic structures. Focusing on gyromagnetic photonic topological insulators and valley topological insulators, we detail the construction and implementation process. Our method ensures smooth connections between unit cells and efficient wave transmission, which are validated through both simulations and experiments. The proposed scheme greatly expands the flexibility for topological transport and enables more applications for complex topological devices and systems.
Consumer acceptance is a must-have for deploying and managing successful demand response systems. Yet, recent research trends favor automated solutions that consider end consumers as passive agents. This paper explore...
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Traditional centralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms are sometimes unpractical in complicated applications due to non-interactivity between agents, the curse of dimensionality, and computation ...
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Traditional centralized multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) algorithms are sometimes unpractical in complicated applications due to non-interactivity between agents, the curse of dimensionality, and computation complexity. Hence, several decentralized MARL algorithms are motivated. However, existing decentralized methods only handle the fully cooperative setting where massive information needs to be transmitted in training. The block coordinate gradient descent scheme they used for successive independent actor and critic steps can simplify the calculation, but it causes serious bias. This paper proposes a exible fully decentralized actor-critic MARL framework, which can combine most of the actor-critic methods and handle large-scale general cooperative multi-agent settings. A primal-dual hybrid gradient descent type algorithm framework is designed to learn individual agents separately for decentralization. From the perspective of each agent, policy improvement and value evaluation are jointly optimized, which can stabilize multi-agent policy learning. Furthermore, the proposed framework can achieve scalability and stability for the large-scale environment. This framework also reduces information transmission by the parameter sharing mechanism and novel modeling-other-agents methods based on theory-of-mind and online supervised learning. Sufficient experiments in cooperative Multi-agent Particle Environment and StarCraft II show that the proposed decentralized MARL instantiation algorithms perform competitively against conventional centralized and decentralized methods.
The paper describes a cloud-based platform that utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Explainable AI techniques to deliver evidence-based, personalized interventions to individuals over 65 suffering or at risk of ...
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The smart grid is perceived as a complex cyber-physical ecosystem consisting of a variety of infrastructures. The increasing intricacy and interconnectivity of smart grid elements have rendered security a vital consid...
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