Cyber-Physical Systems in Pandemic Monitoring and Management
Special Issue for the Cyber-Physical Systems Journal

Cyber-Physical Systems in Pandemic Monitoring and Management

This special issue addresses the timely theme of tackling challenges associated with managing infectious diseases. As witnessed in the outbreaks of many infectious diseases such as SARS and swine flu over the past couple of decades, and more recently another wave of global pandemic, the substantial volume of human traffic from country to country has posed substantial challenges to public health systems.

Utilizing integrated solutions of computation, networked sensors, and physical processes; cyber-physical systems are well-suited as monitoring systems for effective disease-spread simulation analysis that enables health resource management in tackling the current global epidemic as well as any infectious disease outbreaks that may happen in the future.

Given the urgent need for modeling disease transmission behavior in highly infectious risk areas and mitigation strategies under different outbreak circumstances, this special issue invites manuscript submissions in the following topics, but not limited to:

Physical processes in air quality control for ventilation enhancement
Disease transmission and spread modelling
Pandemic data protection and management system architecture
Social impact and socio-technology development of CPS in healthcare
Data mining and analytics for analyzing public health data
Model-based design, validation and implementation of CPS
Model driven disease transmission simulation
Transportation scenarios in confined spaces (e.g. trains, ships, airplanes)
Sensor networks
Data Fusion of epidemiological knowledge
Ethical and regulatory issues concerning CPS deployment in fighting pandemic

Submission Instructions
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Important Dates

Paper submission due: October 15, 2020

Notification of decision: December 23, 2020

Revision due: January 15, 2021

Acceptance notification: February 28, 2021

Approximate publication date: Spring 2021, subject to journal publication schedules