When planning interventions to limit the spread of Covid-19, the current state of knowledge
about the disease and specific characteristics of the population need to be considered …

The first mitigation response to the Covid-19 pandemic was to limit person-to-person
interaction as much as possible. This was implemented by the temporary closing of many …

While they are rare, superspreading events (SSEs), wherein a few primary cases infect an
extraordinarily large number of secondary cases, are recognized as a prominent …

The choices of a population to apply social distancing are modeled as a Nash game, where
the agents determine their social interactions. The interconnections among the agents are …

How will the novel coronavirus evolve? I study a simple epidemiological model, in which
mutations may change the properties of the virus and its associated disease stochastically …

Viviamo un periodo particolarmente complesso e drammatico. La pandemia di COVID-19
costituisce, a detta di un crescente numero di studiosi, uno spartiacque per una grande …

Social distancing plays an essential role in controlling the spread of an epidemic, but
changing the behavior of individuals regarding social distancing is costly. In order to make a …

The starting hypothesis of this doctoral thesis is that the social and human sciences
(especially sociology) have, since their inception, adopted a “negativistic” modus operandi …

In the last decades, a huge progress has been carried out in computing and communication
technologies, automation and digitalization, which has drastically transformed many areas of …

Abstract Gerke et al.(2019) introduced Netflix Games and proved that every such game has
a pure strategy Nash equilibrium. In this paper, we explore the uniqueness of pure strategy …