Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Intermittent non-pharmaceutical strategies to mitigate the COVID-19
  epidemic in a network model of Italy via constrained optimization   This paper is concerned with the design of intermittent non-pharmaceutical
strategies to mitigate the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic exploiting network
epidemiological models. Specifically, by studying a variational equation for
the dynamics of the infected in a network model of the epidemic spread, we
derive, using contractivity arguments, a condition that can be used to
guarantee that, in epidemiological terms, the effective reproduction number is
less than unity. This condition has three advantages: (i) it is easily
computable; (ii) it is directly related to the model parameters; (iii) it can
be used to enforce a scalability condition that prohibits the amplification of
disturbances within the network system. We then include satisfaction of such a
condition as a constraint in a Model Predictive Control problem so as to
mitigate (or suppress) the spread of the epidemic while minimizing the economic
impact of the interventions. A data-driven model of Italy as a network of three
macro-regions (North, Center, and South), whose parameters are identified from
real data, is used to illustrate and evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed
control strategy.

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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: dg-ga
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The categories of this paper are: quant-ph
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ph
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: nlin
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The categories of this paper are: gr-qc
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org