# Computer Science Protecting Human Society Against Epidemics

Aleksander Byrski, Tadeusz Czachórski, Erol Gelenbe, Krzysztof Grochla, Yuko Murayama

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Editor-in-Chief

Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Editorial Board Members

TC 1 – Foundations of Computer Science
Luís Soares Barbosa*†, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

TC 2 – Software: Theory and Practice
Michael Goedicke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

TC 3 – Education
Arthur Tatnall*‡, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

TC 5 – Information Technology Applications
Erich J. Neuhold, University of Vienna, Austria

TC 6 – Communication Systems
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

TC 7 – System Modeling and Optimization
Fredi Tröltzsch, TU Berlin, Germany

TC 8 – Information Systems
Jan Pries-Heje, Roskilde University, Denmark

TC 9 – ICT and Society
David Kreps*§, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

TC 10 – Computer Systems Technology
Ricardo Reis*¶, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

TC 11 – Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems
Steven Furnell*∥, Plymouth University, UK

TC 12 – Artificial Intelligence
Eunika Mercier-Laurent*∥, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

TC 13 – Human-Computer Interaction
Marco Winckler*∥, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

TC 14 – Entertainment Computing
Rainer Malaka, University of Bremen, Germany
# IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing

IFIP was founded in 1960 under the auspices of UNESCO, following the first World Computer Congress held in Paris the previous year. A federation for societies working in information processing, IFIP's aim is two-fold: to support information processing in the countries of its members and to encourage technology transfer to developing nations. As its mission statement clearly states:

> IFIP is the global non-profit federation of societies of ICT professionals that aims at achieving a worldwide professional and socially responsible development and application of information and communication technologies.

IFIP is a non-profit-making organization, run almost solely by 2500 volunteers. It operates through a number of technical committees and working groups, which organize events and publications. IFIP's events range from large international open conferences to working conferences and local seminars.

The flagship event is the IFIP World Computer Congress, at which both invited and contributed papers are presented. Contributed papers are rigorously refereed and the rejection rate is high.

As with the Congress, participation in the open conferences is open to all and papers may be invited or submitted. Again, submitted papers are stringently refereed.

The working conferences are structured differently. They are usually run by a working group and attendance is generally smaller and occasionally by invitation only. Their purpose is to create an atmosphere conducive to innovation and development. Refereeing is also rigorous and papers are subjected to extensive group discussion.

Publications arising from IFIP events vary. The papers presented at the IFIP World Computer Congress and at open conferences are published as conference proceedings, while the results of the working conferences are often published as collections of selected and edited papers.

IFIP distinguishes three types of institutional membership: Country Representative Members, Members at Large, and Associate Members. The type of organization that can apply for membership is a wide variety and includes national or international societies of individual computer scientists/ICT professionals, associations or federations of such societies, government institutions/government related organizations, national or international research institutes or consortia, universities, academies of sciences, companies, national or international associations or federations of companies.

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Aleksander Byrski · Tadeusz Czachórski ·
Erol Gelenbe · Krzysztof Grochla ·
Yuko Murayama (Eds.)

Computer Science
Protecting Human Society
Against Epidemics

First IFIP TC 5 International Conference, ANTICOVID 2021
Virtual Event, June 28–29, 2021
Revised Selected Papers

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Editors

Aleksander Byrski ID

AGH University of Science and Technology

Kraków, Poland

Erol Gelenbe ID

Institute of Theoretical and Applied

Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences

Gliwice, Poland

Yuko Murayama ID

Tsuda University

Tokyo, Japan

Tadeusz Czachórski ID

Institute of Theoretical and Applied

Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences

Gliwice, Poland

Krzysztof Grochla ID

Institute of Theoretical and Applied

Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences

Gliwice, Poland

ISSN 1868-4238

ISSN 1868-422X (electronic)

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

ISBN 978-3-030-86581-8

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Preface

The COVID-19 pandemic concerns everyone. Therefore, in this volume we present the proceedings of the working conference on "Computer Science Protecting Human Society Against Epidemics" that was held online during June 28-29, 2021. The proposal for the event emanated from the Committee on Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (which is an IFIP member) and was sustained by Technical Committee 5 of IFIP on Information Technology Applications, and especially by its Working Group WG 5.15 Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction.

The main topics of the conference were announced as comprising the following:

* IT support for modeling and understanding the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects,

* IT aspects of social life during a pandemic, and

* Security and privacy during pandemics.

This volume contains the best 11 submissions (10 full articles and a work in progress) from authors in various countries in three continents, namely Bangladesh, Bulgaria, France, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, UK, Ukraine, and the USA. Many of these papers are the outcome of international collaborations.

Even if the number of contributions in these proceedings is small, they concern a very large spectrum of problems, ranging from linguistics for automatic translation of medical terms to a proposition for a worldwide system of fast reaction to emerging pandemics. Some of the papers relate to mathematics and modeling, such as statistical problems related to death-rate computations and the use of information entropy in the analysis of pandemic waves viewed as stochastic time series. Some papers deal with numerical problems in epidemiological models, deep learning, and neural networks to forecast the spread of pandemics. Other papers discuss high-performance computing systems for fighting pandemics, monitoring virus spread, and bioinformatics for virus analysis. We also have an empirical study of the impact of pandemics on student life, and a study of journal attitudes towards pandemics.

We are very grateful to the authors of all submitted or accepted papers for their contributions. We also thank the keynote speaker who kindly accepted our invitation. Finally, we wish to thank the Program Committee members and the referees for their important contributions to these proceedings.

July 2021

Aleksander Byrski
Tadeusz Czachórski
Erol Gelenbe
Krzysztof Grochla
Yuko Murayama
# Organization

## General Chair

Yuko Murayama

Tsuda University, Japan

## Program Committee Chairs

Aleksander Byrski

AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Tadeusz Czachórski

IITIS PAN, Poland

Erol Gelenbe

IITIS PAN, Poland

Krzysztof Grochla

IITIS PAN, Poland

## Program Committee

Luis Soares Barbosa

UNU-EGOV and University of Minho, Portugal

Andrzej Bartoszewicz

Technical University of Lodz, Poland

Tadeusz Burczyński

Institute of Fundamental Technological Research PAS, Poland

Juan Burguillo-Rial

Universida de Vigo, Spain

Maria Carla Calzarossa

Universita di Pavia, Italy

Denis Cavalucci

INSA Strasbourg, France

Witold Charatonik

Wroclaw University, Poland

Carlos Cotta

Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Philippe Dallemagne

Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, Switzerland

Ivanna Dronyuk

Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine

Włodzisław Duch

Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Eduard Duml er

International Federation for Information Processing, Austria

Anna Fabijańska

Technical University of Lodz, Poland

Yuliya Gaidamaka

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia

Krzysztof Grochla

IITiT PAN, Poland

Aleksandra Gruca

Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Andres Iglesias

University of Cantabria, Spain

Szymon Jaroszewicz

Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Piotr Jędrzejowicz

Gdynia Maritime University, Poland

Miłosz Kadziński

Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Marek Kisiel-Dorohinicki

AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland

Józef Korbicz

University of Zielona Gora, Poland

Stanisław Kozielski

Silesian University of Technology, Poland

Krzysztof Kozłowski

Poznan University of Technology, Poland
viii Organization

<table>
  <tr>
    <td>Miroslaw Kutyłowski</td>
    <td>Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Tom Lenaerts</td>
    <td>Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Daoliang Li</td>
    <td>China Agricultural University, China</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jacek Mańdziuk</td>
    <td>Warsaw University of Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Eunika Merciel-Laurent</td>
    <td>Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Evsey Morozov</td>
    <td>Institute of Applied Mathematical Research of the Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Zbigniew Nahorski</td>
    <td>Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Jerzy Nawrocki</td>
    <td>Poznan University of Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Erich J. Neuhold</td>
    <td>Universität Wien, Austria</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Ngoc Thanh Nguyen</td>
    <td>Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Maciej Ogorzałek</td>
    <td>AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Michele Pagano</td>
    <td>University of Pisa, Italy</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Philippe Palanque</td>
    <td>Université Paul Sabatier, France</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Wojciech Penczek</td>
    <td>Institute of Computer Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Joanna Polańska</td>
    <td>Silesian University of Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Henryk Rybiński</td>
    <td>Warsaw University of Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Manoj Sharma</td>
    <td>Rustamji Institute of Technology, India</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Miroslaw Skibniewski</td>
    <td>University of Maryland, College Park, USA</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Andrzej Skowron</td>
    <td>Warsaw University, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Dominik Słęzak</td>
    <td>Warsaw University, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Roman Slowiński</td>
    <td>Poznan University of Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Tomasz Szmuc</td>
    <td>AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Dimiter Velev</td>
    <td>University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Józef Woźniak</td>
    <td>Politechnika Gdańska, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Michał Woźniak</td>
    <td>Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Robert Wrembel</td>
    <td>Poznan University of Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Roman Wyrzykowski</td>
    <td>Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Juan Burguillo Rial</td>
    <td>University of Vigo, Spain</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Sławomir Zadrożny</td>
    <td>Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Plamena Zlateva</td>
    <td>Institute of Robotics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria</td>
  </tr>
</table>
Contents

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>Bioinformatic and MD Analysis of N501Y SARS-CoV-2 (UK) Variant<br>Marko Jukić, Sebastjan Kralj, Natalia Nikitina, and Urban Bren</td>
      <td>1</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Ensuring Interoperability of Laboratory Tests and Results: A Linguistic<br>Approach for Mapping French Laboratory Terminologies with LOINC<br>Namrata Patel, Yoann Abel, Fleur Brun, and Guilhem Mayoral</td>
      <td>14</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Volunteer Computing Project SiDock@home for Virtual Drug Screening<br>Against SARS-CoV-2<br>Natalia Nikitina, Maxim Manzyuk, Črtomir Podlipnik, and Marko Jukić</td>
      <td>23</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>An Empirical Investigation of Pandemic Impact on IT Students'<br>Educational Schedule<br>Natalia Shakhovska, Ivanna Dronyuk, Zoreslava Shpak,<br>and Myroslava Klapchuk</td>
      <td>35</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>How Newspapers Portrayed COVID-19: A Study Based on United<br>Kingdom and Bangladesh<br>Redwan Ahmed Rizvee and Moinul Zaber</td>
      <td>41</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Approximate Solutions of the RSIR Model of COVID-19 Pandemic<br>F. M. Pen'kov, V. L. Derbov, G. Chuluunbaatar,<br>A. A. Gusev, S. I. Vinitsky, M. Góźdź, and P. M. Krassovitskiy</td>
      <td>53</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Information Entropy Contribution to COVID-19 Waves Analysis<br>Iliyan Petrov</td>
      <td>65</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Computing the Death Rate of COVID-19<br>Naveen Pai, Sean Zhang, and Mor Harchol-Balter</td>
      <td>77</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Towards a System to Monitor the Virus's Aerosol-Type Spreading<br>Guntis Arnicans, Laila Niedrite, Darja Solodovnikova, Janis Virbulis,<br>and Janis Zemnickis</td>
      <td>95</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Comparison Between Two Systems for Forecasting Covid-19<br>Infected Cases<br>Tatiana Makarovskikh and Mostafa Abotaleb</td>
      <td>107</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>A Pandemic Digital Global Architecture<br>Maurice J. Perks</td>
      <td>115</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>Author Index</td>
      <td>127</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>