Dear Fellow Professionals,: Hope You Are Staying Healthy and Safe

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TECH:P.

4/IEIB/President 15 May 2020

Dear Fellow Professionals,

We hope you are staying healthy and safe.

The Institution of Engineers (India) [IEI], one of the largest professional bodies in the world and
largest in India, over the last century, has already established its rich legacy towards the cause of
promotion and advancement of the science, practice, and business of Engineering through a multitude of
activities.

You all know that the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest global crisis since the Second World War
affecting billions of people of almost all countries in the world. Far from being just a health hazard, it has
led to an unprecedented social crisis. Unlike the crisis or pandemic that has been witnessed in the past,
the shock due to this pandemic will be certainly felt in years to come. It is sure to cause fundamental
structural changes in our society, trade, economy, and lifestyle. Thus, it is imminent that the scientific
community has to come together and invent novel and better models, methods, forecasting techniques
and strategies to understand and mitigate the effects of a crisis of as multi-dimensional as this. On the
one hand, understanding the evolution and other features of this virus is being focused upon by a group
of research communities. And on the other, Mathematicians, Statisticians and Data Scientists focus on
methods and principles borrowed from statistical mechanics and nonlinear dynamics or on artificial
intelligence techniques to produce predictive analytical models. We hope that the models so devised can
be further used to design strategies to control the pandemic, and finally, save lives.

We propose to publish a special issue of the Journal of The Institution of Engineers (India) –
Series B [IEIB] on "Data Science for Global Crisis: COVID-19 and Beyond" spanning the following
two tracks:

1) Application of data science to model the characteristics of the pathogen and spread of the
disease and
2) Study of social, psychological, economic, impacts of COVID-19 driven by the vast amount of data

The aim of the special issue is to share and integrate the efforts of experts for understanding and
overcoming the effects of the current pandemic that will also help us to avoid devastations of future
pandemics.
Topics of the special issue include but are not limited to the following.

• Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Technologies for Management of Post-COVID scenario
• Diffusion models for characterizing COVID 19 pathogen
• Predictive models of pandemic evolution exploiting AI techniques
• Real time forecast of a pandemic like COVID 19
• Outbreak spreading behavior though feature selection, information retrieval, social networking,
deep learning and other emerging technologies
• Spatiotemporal disease dynamics
• Multi sensing system for automatic symptoms analysis and prediction of COVID 19
• Models to the financial market reactions to COVID19
• Risk Profiling: forecasting, assessment, and management;
• Pandemic prevention and control
• Modelling the direction and volumes of trade flows in global crisis
• Modelling and Forecasting the economic crisis as a result of a pandemic
• Impact of the pandemic on people’s psychology and on social development
• Innovations on online learning for formal education and universities,
• Innovation in Information technology in COVID-19 patient tracking
• Information technologies in hospital management during an epidemic or pandemic
• Social network analysis for contact tracing
• Applications of the Internet of Things in healthcare

The papers for this special issue will be processed using the standard double-blind review process
of the journal using Editorial Manager System and will adhere to the plagiarism checking policy of IEIB.

We therefore, request you to kindly submit your valuable article(s) preferably within July 15, 2020
through https://www.editorialmanager.com/ieib.

You may refer the submission guidelines available at:


https://www.springer.com/journal/40031/submission-guidelines?IFA

We expect your response at the earliest.


With warm regards,

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