Lessons from COVID-19

A. Kaklauskas is a professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, in Lithuania; Member of the Research Council of Lithuania; Member of the Science Europe working group on Data Sharing and Supporting Infrastructures; Head of the Department of Construction Management and Property; member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; editor-in-chief of Journal of Civil Engineering and Management; editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; and associate editor of Ecological Indicators. He contributed to nine Framework and five Horizon 2020 program projects and participated in over 30 other projects in the EU, US, Africa. and Asia. His publications include nine books and 150 papers. His areas of interest include affective computing; intelligent tutoring systems; affective intelligent tutoring systems; massive open online courses (MOOCS); affective internet of things; smart built environment; intelligent event prediction; opinion mining; intelligent decision support systems; life cycle analyses of built environments; big data and text analytics. Dr. Ajith Abraham is the Vice Chancellor at Sai University, Chennai. Before joining Sai University, he held the position of vice chancellor at prominent institutions and was also the founding director of Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), a non-profit scientific network for innovation and research excellence with headquarters in Seattle, USA. Dr. Abraham has completed research projects valued at over $110 million as an investigator or co-investigator from the United States, the European Union, Italy, the Czech Republic, France, Malaysia, China, and Australia. He has worked in a multidisciplinary setting for more than 35 years and has authored or co-authored more than 1,500+ research publications in artificial intelligence and related applications in the industry. A handful of his publications have been translated into Chinese and Russian, and one of his books has been translated into Japanese. The Scopus database has approximately 1,400 papers indexed, whereas the Thomson Web of Science has over 1,000 publications indexed.In addition to other esteemed universities, Dr. Abraham has worked with researchers from MIT (USA), the University of Cambridge (UK), Harvard University (USA), and Oxford University (UK). According to Google Scholar, Dr. Abraham possesses over 63,000 scholarly citations with an H-index of over 118. He has delivered over 250 conference plenary talks and tutorials in more than 20 countries. From 2008 to 2021, Dr. Abraham chaired the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Soft Computing, which had more than 200 members. From 2011 to 2013, he represented Europe as a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Computer Society (USA). Dr. Abraham is continuously listed in the Stanford/Elsevier list, highlighting the top 2% of the most cited scientists across the globe. Based on 2024 data, ScholarGPS listed Dr. Abraham as one of the world’s top 0.01% cited scientists in the engineering and computer science fields.From 2016 to 2021, Dr. Abraham worked as the chief editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) at Elsevier, New York. EAAI is one of the oldest journals (founded in 1988) in the artificial intelligencedomain. Additionally, he sat on the editorial boards of more than 15 international journals indexed by Thomson ISI. Dr. Abraham received his Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (2001), a Master of Science degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (1998), and a B.Tech (Hons) degree from the University of Calicut in 1990.Kingsley Okoye received his PhD in Software Engineering from the University of East London, UK. He is an MIET member at the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK, and a Graduate Member of the IEEE. He is a devoted researcher to Industry and Academia in areas such as Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Advanced Analytics, Software Development and Programming, and Business Process Management. Kingsley is a Data Architect in the Writing Lab of Tecnologico de Monterrey. He is also a member of the Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA, and a member of the IEEE SMCS Technical Committee (TC) on Soft Computing. His Research interests includes: Process Mining and Automation, Learning Analytics and Systems Design, Semantic Web Technologies, Knowledge Engineering and Data Management, Computer Education, Educational Innovation, Internet Applications and Ontologies. Shankru Guggari is a PhD in computer science and engineering currently working on building robust classification techniques. His areas of interest are in recognition, IOT, and machine learning. Dr. Guggari has published research works in international conferences and reputed journals such as Elsevier and Springer, to name a few, and has more than four years industry and two years academic research experience. He is currently as serving as an editor for two edited books (Elsevier, Taylor, and Francis publishers). He has delivered various technical talks in different platforms. He also served as guest editor for few special issues related to AI and ML domains.

• PART I: Healthcare Sector1. History of COVID-192. Problems and challenges in identifying vaccines for COVID-193. Changes of legislation on clinical trials, and re-purposing of licensed drugs for the treatment of COVID-19 symptoms4. Effects of COVID-19 on primary health care5. Impact of COVID-19 on expectant parents and different stakeholders6. Effects of COVID-19 on doctors, medical professionals, nurses and supporting staffs of hospitals7. Best practises adopted by different countries to control the COVID-19 pandemic8. Disproportionate healthcare implications of COVID-19 due to age, ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic status9. How COVID-19 pandemic has affected Global healthcare and its implications for the future of Healthcare10. Socio-cultural and Economic effects of COVID-19 on global health care11. Psychological effects of COVID-19 on human beings12. Effects of COVID-19 on medical and clinical researchers13. Effects of COVID-19 on Tele-medicine, Clinical workflow, Security and Privacy Issues14. Effects of COVID-19 on drug manufacturing companies.15. Effects of COVID-19 on kids 16. Effects of COVID-19 on the middle age and 21st century generation.17. Effects of COVID-19 on the healthcare of the elderly18. Effects of COVID-19 for people with diseases like Cancer, HIV, Mental health patients, and people with disabilities in general19. Health and safety best practices for use in Health environments and Public spaces during and after COVID-19PART II: Computing and Informatics20. Future research scope on COVID-19 treatment and Health informatics21. COVID-19 Technology-mediated solutions and infrastructures22. e-Health and Post-COVID-19 era23. Role and impact of digital technologies and mass media during COVID-1924. Digital transformation of the healthcare sector triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic25. Advances in virtual clinical learning, diagnosis, and therapy26. Modelling techniques and statistical projections that are used to predict the spread of the COVID-19 virus and decision making27. Success rates and turnaround times with COVID-19 using ICT28. Main enabling ICT technologies for the development of cutting-edge healthcare systems and services29. Effects of COVID-19 on virtual healthcare with the usage of Internet of Things (IoT) technology30. Benefits and use of Cloud computing to provide IT infrastructure during COVID-1931. Benefits and use of Edge computing to provide IT infrastructure during COVID-1932. Benefits and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide IT infrastructure during COVID-1933. Benefits and use of Big Data Management and Machine Learning techniques to provide IT infrastructure during COVID-19