id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-342180-ylcv4zvl Buonomo, B. Modelling information-dependent social behaviors in response to lockdowns: the case of COVID-19 epidemic in Italy 2020-05-25 .txt text/plain 8656 496 54 We consider a SEIR-like epidemic model where that contact and quarantine rates are assumed to depend on the available information and rumors about the disease status in the community. Among the main concerns raised were: predicting the evolution of the COVID19 pandemic wave worldwide or in specic countries [12, 25, 42] ; predicting epidemic peaks and ICU accesses [46] ; assessing the eects of containment measures [12, 14, 24, 25, 35, 42, 45] and, more generally, assessing the impact on populations in terms of economics, societal needs, employment, health care, deaths toll, etc [20, 36] . To this aim we build up an informationdependent SEIRlike model which is based on the key assumption that the choice to respect the lockdown restrictions, specically the social distance and the quarantine, is partially determined on fully voluntary basis and depends on the available information and rumors concerning the spread of the COVID19 disease in the community. ./cache/cord-342180-ylcv4zvl.txt ./txt/cord-342180-ylcv4zvl.txt