Methods and Directions of Contact Tracing in Epidemic Discovery

The contact tracing process is a mitigation and monitoring strategy that aims to capture infectious diseases to control their outbreak in a practical time. Various applications have been proposed and developed contact tracing process; most of these applications utilize the smartphone technologies to record all movements of contacts and send notifications to the expected infected ones, either high-risk or low-risk. On the other side, several challenges limit the functionality of contact tracing applications and processes; these limitations include (1) privacy concerns, (2) lack to fully identify contacts, and (3) delays in identification. In this paper, we survey the functionality of the contact tracing process, how its works, open directions and challenges, applications, and its domain of use.

@article{Abdalla2022,
  title     = {Methods and Directions of Contact Tracing in Epidemic Discovery},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {13},
  number    = {6},
  year      = {2022},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Mohammed Abdalla and Amr M. AbdelAziz and Louai Alarabi and Saleh Basalamah and Abdeltawab Hendawi},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130698},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130698}
}