Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi ¹
• Massimo Buscema ²
• Mozhdeh Saffari-Parizi ³
• Giulia Massini ⁴
• Mostafa Moradi-Khalaj ⁵
• Weldon Lodwick ²

¹ Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO 80217, USA

² Department of Mathematical and Statistical Science, CCMB, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO 80217, USA

³ Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO 80217, USA

⁴ Semeion, Research Centre of Sciences of communication, via Sersale 117, 00128 Rome, Italy

⁵ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 7134851156, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

COVID-19 outbreak in Iran is studied and analyzed using Topological Weighted Centroid (TWC) algorithms. According to this algorithm the origin of the outbreak is mainly in the city of Qom. In addition, it predicts the centers of the epidemic spread in the future as well as pathways of this spread.

Keywords

• COVID-19 virus
• The TWC algorithms
• The modified TWC algorithms