https://www.scmp.com/rss/507173/feed Roland Bouffanais is Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. His research focuses on the interdisciplinary intersections of complexity, network science, control theory, machine learning, and multi-agent systems. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in top scientific journals and conference proceedings. He authored Design and Control of Swarm Dynamics. He received his PhD from EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) in computational science for which he was... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com You impose a lockdown. With people confined indoors, shops close and the economy grinds to a halt. Your Covid-19 infections fall to pleasing numbers, and soon it appears safe to end the lockdown and reopen your economy. Businesses open, people come out in droves and some sense of normalcy returns. Before you know it, new virus outbreaks emerge and clusters expand and spread, threatening to overwhelm your health care services. You impose a lockdown, rinse and repeat. Cities around the world have... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3100972/how-cities-can-avoid-costly-lockdowns-smart-use-big-data?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3100972/how-cities-can-avoid-costly-lockdowns-smart-use-big-data?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:30:15 +0000