An explicit optimal intervention policy for a deterministic epidemic model

Optimal Control Applications and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 413-428

  Piunovskiy, Alexei B ^a   Clancy, Damian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemic control; Modified infection rate; Optimal intervention

Indexed keywords

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DETERMINISTIC EPIDEMIC MODELS; EPIDEMIC CONTROL; INFECTION RATES; MAXIMAL EFFORTS; MODIFIED INFECTION RATE; MODIFIED MODELS; OPTIMAL INTERVENTION; OPTIMAL INTERVENTIONS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATIONS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 56849114913     PISSN: 01432087     EISSN: 10991514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oca.834     Document Type: Article

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